emphasized that we do not know exactly what the respondents refer to when answering that question. It is the respondent’ s subjective opinion of what constitutes antisemitism that counts in this context.
What Jews in the different countries have perceived as an antisemitic comment / attack, may be attributed to different groups. We asked our respondents to describe the person or group that made the antisemitic comment or act they had recently experienced. The respondents were asked to categorize the alleged perpetrator into one of the following four groups: � A person with right-wing political views. � A person with left-wing political views. � A person with Muslim views. � A person with Christian views.
In Figure 25 we see that Jews in Hungary, where the classic form of antisemitism is most predominant, mainly find the antisemitic attackers to be political right-wingers. This is also, but to a lesser extent, true for Italy, but much less so in the other investigated countries, and least of all in Sweden and France:
Correspondingly, Jews in Hungary, to a considerably lesser extent than Jews in the other countries, attribute the antisemitic remarks to perpetrators from the left-wing of the political
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