The Pew Research Center published a report about anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Spain, Poland, Russia, Germany, France, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The report dates from 2008 and showed that 46% of the Spaniards had unfavourable views towards the Jews.
Worried about the results of the report, the Spanish Government made the Casa Sefarad-Israel (an institution centred on the study of Jews and dedicated to foment Spanish-Israeli relations) to take on the issue. Finally, a new report was published, which found the following results:
1.- 58.4% of the Spaniards think that the "Jews have much power because they control the economy and the media". Among university students this attitude encompasses the 62.2%, and among people "interested in politics" this attitude encompasses the 70.5%. All of this means that anti-Semitism in Spain is highly worrying and intolerable, due to its level and to the fact that it's higher among educated and informed people.
2.- 34.6% of the Spaniards have unfavourable or totally unfavourable opinions about the Jews. This attitude encompasses 34% of the far-rightists (who rate the Jews with 4.9 points in a scale from 1 to 10) and 37.7% of centre-left-wingers (who rate the Jews with 4.6 points in a scale from 1 to 10). This case is unique in Europe because far-rightists show less unpleasantness towards the Jews than centre-left-wingers.
3.- Among those who admit to be "unpleasant towards the Jews", 17% of them attribute this attitude to the "Middle East conflict"; 29.6% of them attribute this attitude to "their religion", "their customs", "the way they are", etc.; others among them attribute this attitude to "general unpleasantness", "the power" and "the money"; 17% of them attribute this attitude to reasons they don't know. This means that only a small percentage of the Spaniards show unpleasantness towards the Jews due to "the State of Israel and its policies".
there is a connection between economy, political situation and growth of anti-semitism. in 1939 there was economical crisis, so it was not very hard to provocate national hatred amogng depressed, houngry people.
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ReplyDeletespanish traveler recommends murcia for many things and mentions the jewish community..In 2003 we launched project JewishIt(with our jewishit button) to promote our lil community in spain and abroad.Membersip went up 17% according to EL PAIS murcia went from 32% proisrael to almost 70% due to direct contact with the community and nonjews in meetings sports ampas fiestas.Online we went to facebook twitter and bought a domain in youtube.we have our own cannel.
In san francisco in the official tourist agency we are on the wall as a recommended city in spain for everyone.We placed ourselves for free on THE DAILY SHOW website via mashup