Hungary has the third-highest rate of anti-Semitic prejudice in the EU
According to a recent international survey, anti-Semitism is the third most widespread prejudice in 16 European countries. Based on the data, anti-Semitism is greater among individuals who endorse right-wing ideology, but approximately a third of opposition voters have a prejudice against Jewish people, too.
While being openly anti-Semitic is still taboo, left-wing anti-Semitism has become more prominent than âtraditionalâ right-wing anti-Semitism in Western countries, such as the United Kingdom. Anti-Israel sentiment and behaviour are also widespread in other parts of Western Europe, but anti-Semitism is more characteristic of the former socialist countries, writes Telex.
According to a recently published international study on prejudice, Greece has the strongest manifestations of anti-Semitism. Violence against Jewish people is clearly most common in Western European countries with large Islamic groups.
âThe current research has shown that the number of serious acts of violence and the degree of anti-Semitic prejudice are basically unrelated,â explains AndrĂĄs KovĂĄcs, Professor at the Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University.
âIn a number of countries with high levels of anti-Semitic prejudice, like Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, only a negligible number of acts of violence have been registered. In contrast, many anti-Semitic crimes â attack, harassment, and vandalism â occur in countries with low rates of anti-Semitic prejudice, such as France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.â
Although the definitions and categorisations of anti-Semitic behaviour can vary by country, most surveys in recent years (such as the annual research of MediĂĄn) agree that
about 30 to 40% of the Hungarian society agree more or less with certain anti-Semitic statements, such as that Jewish people try to benefit even from their persecution during the war.
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In the latest study, Andrås Kovåcs and György Fischer called this latent anti-Semitism. They also found that
24% of Hungarian society are strongly anti-Semitic, 18% are moderately anti-Semitic, and Hungary has the third-highest rate of anti-Semitic prejudice in the EU.
For example, according to the survey on discrimination and hate crime against Jewish people conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, among the EU Member States, the highest levels of comfort with having a Jewish person as a neighbour were found in Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden, and the Netherlands in 2018. In contrast,
the lowest mean level of comfort with having a Jewish person as a neighbour were indicated in Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, and Poland.
The data of the study done by KovĂĄcs and Fischer confirmed that anti-Semitic prejudice is slightly higher among men than among women, and anti-Semitism is more prevalent among the elderly, the less educated, and those living in larger rural cities.
Source: fra.europa.eu, telex.hu
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I don’t believe that I read such total nonsense in a very long time.
Hungary and Israel are close allies and Hungary has a zero tolerance policy against anti-Semitism.
Where does this Kovacs guy get his garbage?
Interesting- in the US itâs the left wing nut jobs who want to destroy Israel and conservatives who are the biggest supporters or as the media calls them far right wing or
Nazis is what they really would like to say.
This is all you need to know:
âIn a number of countries with high levels of anti-Semitic prejudice, like Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, only a negligible number of acts of violence have been registered. In contrast, many anti-Semitic crimes â attack, harassment, and vandalism â occur in countries with low rates of anti-Semitic prejudice, such as France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.â
Ask Jewish people which would they rather deal with….anti-Semitic thoughts or anti-Semitic attacks?
This Kovacs guy is nuts. He wants to condemn Hungarians for thoughts, not acts that he thinks they have.
I don’t care if you want to call someone like that a Nazi or Bolshevik. It really doesn’t matter because Nazis and Bolsheviks are twins of the same totalitarian thought-control swamp.
Kovacs is one of the reasons why I have no respect for so-called PhD from biased history or some other woke oriented social study.
Anti-sementism in Hungary is awful to hear, but at least Jewish people don’t have to worry about being killed like those in France (Kobili Traoer, anyone?), the US or UK.
Western countries should focus on preventing terrorist acts against their Jewish population before worrying about Hungary. This does not mean Hungary should not stop working om preventing antisementism in the country. However, they should not be listening to the advice from Western countries.