The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an anti-hate organisation that was founded in 1913 as a reaction to antisemitism. Today, its "ultimate goal is a world in which no group or individual suffers from bias, discrimination or hate". In 1964, ADL started a series of public opinion surveys in the U.S. to monitor levels of antisemitism and measure the general acceptance of negative Jewish stereotypes. For this purpose, an index comprising eleven statements (see below) was developed. In 2013 and 2014, interviews were conducted in 101 countries to research attitudes and opinions toward Jews using the eleven statements mentioned before, a study - based on 53.100 total interviews - that is known as "ADL Global 100: An Index of Antisemitism". Respondents who agree with at least six out of eleven statements are considered to harbour antisemitic attitudes (via).
Some highly interesting results (via):
Generally speaking, Muslims are more likely to hold antisemitic views than members of other religions. However, geography has an impact since Muslims in the so-called "Middle East" and North Africa (75% Index Score) show a much higher tendency to harbour antisemitic attitudes than Muslims in Asia (37% Index Score), in Western Europe (29% Index Score), in Eastern Europe (20% Index Score), and Sub-Saharan Africa (18% Index Score). In addition, Muslims living in predominantly Muslim countries who get their information about Jews from the internet (score 73%) are more likely to have antisemitic attitudes than those getting their information from other sources.
Interestingly ... the so-called "Middle Eastern" country with the lowest antisemitism Index Score (56%) is Iran. For comparison: Iraq's score is 92%, Kuweit's score is 82%, Jordan's score is 81%. For more countries see this map.
Outside the "Middle East" and North Africa, the three countries with the highest scores are Greece (69%), Malaysia (61%), and Armenia (58%); the three countries with the lowest scores are Laos (0.2%), the Philippines (3%), and Sweden (4%).
People in countries with larger Jewish populations are less likely to hold antisemitic views (score 22%) than people living in countries with smaller Jewish populations (score 28%).
Male respondents (score 29%) show a higher tendency to harbour antisemitic views than female respondents (score 24%).
Less than half of the people surveyed under the age of 35 have ever heard of the Holocaust.
Two out of three people have either never heard of the Holocaust or do not want to believe the historical accounts to be accurate.
More than a quarter (26%) harbour antisemitic attitudes - an estimated 1.09 billion adults around the world. At the same time ...
... 74% of these respondents have never met a Jewish person.
18% believe that the worldwide Jewish population exceed 700 million people while the number is around 13,700,000. Those overestimating the number are more likely to express antisemitic views (score 38%).
The eleven statements (via):
1 Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/the countries they live in]
The numbers are staggering
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