The current anti-Semitism study of the Institute of Empirical Social Research (IFES) shows again that incidents with an anti-Semitic background have increased since the outbreak of the Gaza war. The research also shows that the problem is becoming more and more “younger”.
A total of 2037 people aged 16 and older up to and including 16 years in Austria with the help of telephone and online interviews for the study created every two years in October and November last year. An extra sample of a total of 1080 people consisted of 577 people with a migration history from Turkey and 503 people with migration history from a country on the Arab.
In some anti -semitic settings you can take a stagnation or a slight decrease: 13 percent of respondents continued to represent clear anti -semitic institutions, in 2022 the value was 15 percent. Latent Anti -Semitism also remained at the same level with 33 percent (2022: 32 percent).
Not only in the case of Israel -related anti -Semitism -especially after the terrorist attack of the Hamas on October 7, 2023 -other statements, young people were also agreed earlier than older. About 15 percent of sub-25 year olds were of the opinion that reports on concentration camps were exaggerated in reports on concentration camps.
Palestinians are “treated as the Jews in the Second World War”
I can understand the statement “in politics that Israel does, that you have something against Jews” agreed 31 percent of the respondents in whole or rather, which corresponds to an eight percentage points increase. The statement “The Israelis actually treat the Palestinians in fact no different than the Germans in the Second World War” received more approval by 35 percent (2022: 30 percent). For project coordinator Thomas Stern, such explanations are “a trivialization of national socialism”.
Anti -Semitism was much more pronounced, such as the two years earlier in the group with roots in Turkey or an Arabic language country. But anti -Semitism also increases among people with a university degree. Eva Zeglovits from IFES sees one cause – especially among younger people. Young people hardly consumed traditional media anymore, but mainly learned about social networks that often strengthened conspiracy myths.
Study leader: “Anti -Semitism lives on”
Due to the alarming results among young people, Stern calls for a recovering of the curriculum for the subject of Holocaust. It should be the task of politics that the Holocaust and its effects are included in the curriculum of education, because “Anti -Semitism lives on.”
Source: Krone
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