Different Antisemitisms: On Three Distinct Forms of Antisemitism in C | Page 5

Sweden is, to a great extent, due to what has occurred in Malmö, where approximately 4% of
the Jewish respondents in Sweden reside.

Attitudes of antisemitism vs the perception of antisemitism
Is there a correspondence between the Jews’ experiences and perceptions of antisemitism and
the proportion of antisemites in the population of the country where they live?
Comparing the two measures we have presented so far, viz. the level of (classic)
antisemitism in the general population and the degree to which the Jews in the same country
perceive antisemitism as a problem in their country, we achieve the picture presented in
Figure 3:

Most remarkable in this picture are the large discrepancies in the UK and Sweden, between
the proportion of the population harbouring classic antisemitic attitudes and the Jews’
perception of antisemitism as a problem in the country. In the two most antisemitic countries,
according to the ADL-measure, Hungary and France, the Jews perceive antisemitism as a
problem by about factor 2 as compared to the level of antisemitism registered in the general
population of the country, whereas the Jews in UK do so by approximately factor 6 and the
Jews in Sweden, the country harbouring the smallest amount of classic antisemites, do so by
factor 15. This may be further illustrated in Figure 4.

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