Figure 5:
It is noteworthy here that a vast majority in all of the eight countries, more than 9 out of ten of the Jewish respondents, have heard an antisemitic comment within the last 12 month. This is true also for Sweden and the UK, even if the figure in these two countries is slightly lower than in the other countries. The slight difference between the eight countries with respect to having heard an antisemitic comment is, however, very far from the vast difference between the UK and Sweden on the one hand, and the other countries investigated in this study on the other, when it comes to the proportion of antisemites in the country( cf. Figure 1). There are two possible reasons for this: the criteria for qualifying as an“ antisemite” according to the ADL-survey is to agree to at least six of the eleven statements listed above. Thus, the criteria overshadows the fact that people who score below that level, e. g. by agreeing to five or four of the eleven statements may also have uttered this, and hence caused the Jews around them to hear an antisemitic statement.
Another, and in a way more challenging, reason is that something other than classic antisemitism can also be perceived as antisemitism by the Jews in the eight countries. This may particularly be the case in the UK and especially Sweden. This is illustrated in Figure 6.
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