Different Antisemitisms: On Three Distinct Forms of Antisemitism in C | Page 4

this kind of antisemites. In fact, Sweden ranks number 100 out of the 102 investigated
countries all over the world – only in Laos and the Philippines are there smaller proportions of
the population in the country harbouring classic antisemitic stereotypes than in Sweden,
according to this ADL-survey.
Unlike the ADL-survey, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights’ (FRA)
survey is directed exclusively to persons in eight EU-member states who regard themselves
being in some sense Jewish. Those who do are asked several different questions about their
experiences of antisemitism in their country of residence and about how they as Jews perceive
antisemitism.
On the question of how big a problem they consider antisemitism to be in their country
of residence, these Jewish respondents answered as shown in Figure 2:

We can note that more than ¾ of the Jews in three of the countries, Hungary, France and
Belgium, find antisemitism in their country to be a big or a fairly big problem. The Jews in
UK and Latvia do so to a lesser extent. It is, however, noteworthy that as many as 20% of the
Jewish respondents in Sweden perceive antisemitism to be a very big problem.
In this context, we should bear in mind that the city of Malmö, the third largest Swedish
city, harbouring one of Sweden’s three Jewish communities, has become infamous worldwide
for an extraordinary number of antisemitic incidents in the years preceding the present study.
In further analysis, we have found that the perception of antisemitism as a very big problem in

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