T. Belman. Very distressing to learn just how pervasive antisemitism is.
Perhaps my readers might comment on the factors that influence the different percentages between the east, the west and the north.
Pew surveys of 56,000 adults in 34 nations find Western Europeans more willing to have Jewish family members, neighbors than in East; divide in acceptance of Muslims even greater
Eastern Europeans are far less willing to have Jews in their families or as their neighbors than their Western European counterparts, a gap that is even more pronounced when it comes to attitudes toward Muslims.
According to an analysis of a series of surveys by the Pew Research Center carried out from 2015 to 2017 among some 56,000 adults in 34 European countries, the gap between Europe’s two halves is significant.
The figures are also largely unchanged among young adults, aged 18-34, suggesting that current attitudes are likely to remain constant for the foreseeable future.
Only 40 percent of Russians said they “would be willing to accept Jews as members of their family,” and just 35% of Greeks, 43% of Ukrainians, 51% of Czechs and 57% of Poles.
Among Western European nations, meanwhile, the figure was 69% in the United Kingdom and Germany, 76% in France, 79% in Spain, 89% in Belgium — and was at its highest in the Scandinavian countries: 92% in Sweden, 92% in Denmark and 95% in Norway.
Only 5% or less in Scandinavian and northern European countries said they would reject Jews as their neighbors, with the highest figure in Western Europe being 12%, in Italy.
The corresponding figures given for Eastern Europe were divided by religious affiliation within each country. Rejection of Jews as neighbors was as high as 33% among Armenia’s Christian Orthodox and 30% among that population in Romania. In Lithuania and Ukraine, 24% and 21% of Catholics, respectively, said they wouldn’t accept Jews in their neighborhood.
The East-West gap is even more pronounced when it comes to Muslims, who are less liked than Jews in every European country except Muslim-majority Bosnia.
In the East, just 34% of Russians said they would accept a Muslim in the family, 31% of Greeks, 25% of Ukrainians, 12% of Czechs and 33% of Poles. Among Orthodox Christians, 77% in Armenia, 48% in Latvia and 40% in Belarus said they would reject Muslims as neighbors. Some 66% of Catholics in the Czech Republic and 56% of that population in Lithuania also said so.
In the West, the figure for those who accept Muslims as family members was 53% in the UK, 55% in Germany, 66% in France, 74% in Spain, 77% in Belgium, and among the Scandinavians 80%, 81% and 82% in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, respectively.
The figure for those who accept Muslims as neighbors was 78% in the UK, 77% in Germany, 85% in France, 86% in Spain, 91% in Belgium and among the Scandinavians 90%, 91% and 92% in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, respectively.
Acceptance of Jews and Muslims tends to correspond to the extent to which citizens of a particular country view their religious identity as fundamental to their national identity. In Greece, for example, where few want either Muslims or Jews in their families, 76% agreed with the statement that “to truly share their national identity” one needs to be Greek Orthodox. In Russia and Ukraine, 57% and 51% believe belonging to the national Christian church is fundamental to belonging to the nation.
In the UK, Germany, France and Denmark, meanwhile, just 34%, 34%, 32% and 19%, respectively, view religious conformity as basic to partaking in national identity — and acceptance of Jews and Muslims is correspondingly higher.
These gaps have shown resilience despite the growth of the European Union over a decade ago to include the nations of Eastern Europe, Pew notes.
The analysis of the surveys also found that Central and Eastern Europeans are less accepting than their western counterparts of same-sex marriage and legal abortion.
The surveys were conducted across Central and Eastern Europe in 2015 and 2016 and in Western Europe in 2017, Pew said. A separate analysis of the 24 member states of the European Union included in the studies can be found at the Pew Research Center’s website.
and if you want to know why it is TOI gushes about a “Massive European Study” bad-mouthing Eastern Europe, here is your answer.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part Friday November 2nd in the Craiova Forum in Bulgaria, alongside the leaders of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia, where he is actively working with the Eastern European Balkan states to change EU policy.
TOI is harping for the EU policies, which favour the Muslim cause. TOI ist trying to shape Israeli opinions and undermine and frustrate Bibi’s policies.
What is the point of recycling in 2018 a series of Pew surveys conducted in 2015 – 2017?
And how flawed is a survey comparing countries some polled in 2015 and some countries surveyed in 2017. When statisticians start cobbling together patchwork observations, there must be mischief in their methodology.
The point they want to make is do not worry. You, the Westerner, the Israeli, the Jew, are living in paradise. They, in Eastern Europe are living in hell.
What Pew and the liberal Jewish shills are saying is Eastern European attempts to limit Muslim migration is bigotry. And Jews have a vital interest to oppose the Eastern countries as much as possible. Jews like all liberal minded people have to solidarize with Muslims.
I wouldn’t argue East Europeans or the Greek are not overtly racist or Antisemitic. Sure, my personal anecdotal observations confirm this.
The point is that Eastern Europeans are rapidly changing. The surveys being trotted out will not research in that direction and will never show you that. They are not interested to measure improvements in Eastern Europe.
The point of the survey is to depict Eastern Europeans as backward racists. The surveys will never demonstrate the actual increased solidarity with Israel in Eastern Europe, improving sympathy with Jews, a more realistic and thus more critical assessment of the Arab positions, abhorrence of Muslim crimes against women, rejection of globalist dictates to absorb millions of Middle Eastern migrants.
Instead, these articles will show you a broken window pane of a Synagogue in Gdansk. Meanwhile, you in the West, don’t make a fuss about problems you see with your own eyes in your own environment. Move on, don’t ask any questions. Nothing to worry here.