15 January 2015, The Tablet

Europe must counter prejudice against Jews


 
More than half the 270,000 Jewish population of Britain believe they have no future in the country and a quarter are contemplating moving away, according to the latest survey. The majority believe anti-Semitism is on the rise, though a poll two years ago by the European Union found British Jews less aware of it than in seven other countries, including France and Italy. That does not say much for the rest, particularly when another survey – this time of attitude towards Jews in the general population – found a great deal of negative stereotyping in Britain. Nearly half the sample subscribed to at least one of a series of prejudices against Jews, such as that they were too interested in money or talked too much about the Holocaust. Given that the majority of such a random sample
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