Nearly Half of Adults Worldwide Hold Anti-Semitic Views

Nearly half of the world’s adult population harbors anti-Semitic attitudes, according to a survey published by the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday.

The survey polled over 58,000 adults from 103 countries and territories about the truth value of 11 proposed negative statements about Jewish people. The statements included:

• “People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave”—48 percent of respondents believed to be true.
• “Jews have too much control over world affairs”—46 percent believed.
• “Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars”—35 percent believed.

The survey found: Anti-Semitic attitudes worldwide have doubled over the past decade.

• Forty-six percent of the world’s population harbors anti-Semitic views.
• Seventy-six percent of respondents in the Middle East and North Africa believe most of the 11 negative stereotypes to be true.
• Around half of the respondents in Asia, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa exhibited high levels of anti-Semitic views.
• The Americas, Western Europe and Oceania displayed relatively lower levels of anti-Semitic attitudes, though 1 in 5 adults hold anti-Semitic beliefs.

The survey also found that only 48 percent of adults believe the historical facts of the Holocaust, when some 6 million Jewish people were systematically murdered. Twenty percent of respondents had never heard of the Holocaust, increasing to 39 percent among those ages 18 to 34.

Anti-Semitism is nothing short of a global emergency, especially in a post-October 7 world.
—Jonathan A. Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League ceo

Plague of the mind: The Bible explains the reason for this poisonous, irrational thinking and shows that it will only worsen in the near future. To learn more, read “The One Minority Society Loves to Hate.”