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Jan. 24th, 2012
A report into antisemitism in Germany has found that the country has a problem with entrenched hostility towards Jews.
According to the survey, which was commissioned in 2009 by the German parliament to look into antisemitism, some 20 per cent of citizens display anti-Jewish attitudes.
The report showed children using the word "Jew" as a slur as well as sports fans chanting that Jews should be sent to the gas chambers and making other offensive Holocaust references. The internet was cited as a particular problem in spreading these attitudes.
While the authors noted that antisemitism was still a tactic employed by far-right movements, they said that anti-Jewish hostility remained among at least a fifth of ordinary German society.
They said that Germany had less of a problem with antisemitism than countries including Poland or Portugal, but added that there was "a wider acceptance in mainstream society of day-to-day anti-Jewish tirades and actions".
Originally posted at http://ukhudshanskiy.dreamwidth.org/1195507.html.
According to the survey, which was commissioned in 2009 by the German parliament to look into antisemitism, some 20 per cent of citizens display anti-Jewish attitudes.
The report showed children using the word "Jew" as a slur as well as sports fans chanting that Jews should be sent to the gas chambers and making other offensive Holocaust references. The internet was cited as a particular problem in spreading these attitudes.
While the authors noted that antisemitism was still a tactic employed by far-right movements, they said that anti-Jewish hostility remained among at least a fifth of ordinary German society.
They said that Germany had less of a problem with antisemitism than countries including Poland or Portugal, but added that there was "a wider acceptance in mainstream society of day-to-day anti-Jewish tirades and actions".
Originally posted at http://ukhudshanskiy.dreamwidth.org/1195507.html.
