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To: Olog-hai
Sounds too alarmistic.

“The figure is far higher than most other northern European countries.”

“The German result was high when compared with other northern Europeans such as Netherlands (five percent), Denmark (nine percent), Sweden (four percent), the United Kingdom (eight percent) and Norway (15 percent).”

In both Holland and Scandinavia people are very politically correct, they will lie even in anonymous polls just to not look like racists.

Besides...

“The most common anti-Semitic belief was “Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/the countries they live in]”, which was seen as ‘probably true’ by 41 percent of respondents worldwide and 45 percent in western Europe.”

well, some are, some aren't, I would go for “probably true” too. Financial markets ? One of the biggest investment banks is Goldman Sachs Inc. not Kunta Kinte Inc. Totally different issue is If “something should be done about it”. Of course not. To single out real anti-semites they should ask questions like “should Jews be banned from Wall Street, governments etc.” and at least try to adjust it to PC approach of locals. Now you get “1/3 of people in country x are anti-semitic” results, which are rather pointless as everyone knows that in general nothing wrong happens to Jews in these places.

10 posted on 05/17/2014 1:53:05 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246
I think it is to be expected that Foxman will find alarming percentages of anti-Semitism as that Morris Dees will find alarming evidence for white racism in America. Being alarmists is how they keep their donors sending money.

Anyone who thinks the real danger to Jews nowadays is whether some Greek running a kiosk in Patras gives the politically-correct responses to a questionnaire instead of the fact that the crazies in Iran are trying to get nukes to drop on Israel is nuts.

12 posted on 05/17/2014 2:17:19 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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