The Anti-Defamation League has announced that a recent global survey?–
ADL Global 100: A Survey of Attitudes Toward Jews in Over 100 Countries Around the World — shows that one in four adults are?”deeply infected with anti-Semitic attitudes” and nearly half the people in the world have never heard of the Holocaust.
Of those people who have heard of the Holocaust, only one-third believe that historical descriptions are accurate.
The study group?included 53,100 adults in 102 countries representing 88 percent of the world’s adult population. The study was carried out in native languages. Participants were asked whether certain traditionally anti-Semitic statements are likely true or false.
From CNN:
The survey then calculated how many believed that at least six of the 11 stereotypes were probably true. In the Middle East and North Africa, 74% did. In Eastern Europe, one in three did, and in Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, nearly one in four believed most of the stereotypes.
Overall, 26% believed at least six of the stereotypes — a figure representing an estimated 1.1 billion people.
Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman said in a statement:
“For the first time we have a real sense of how pervasive and persistent anti-Semitism is today around the world,” ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a statement.
“The data from the Global 100 Index enables us to look beyond anti-Semitic incidents and rhetoric and quantify the prevalence of anti-Semitic attitudes across the globe. We can now identify hotspots, as well as countries and regions of the world where hatred of Jews is essentially nonexistent.”
Read the?study. All screenshots via?ADL Global 100: A Survey of Attitudes Toward Jews in Over 100 Countries Around the World. Watch the video that is at the bottom of this page.
Questions asked in the survey
People who have heard of the Holocaust and believe it has been accurately described by history
Stereotypes of Jewish People
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