"Jews" blamed for economic crisis in Europe

Oh my god, ...... here we go, things get bad so who should we blame today???.. hmmmmm , oh ya! hey the Jews haven't been blamed for a while!!!! Its been what 60 - 70 years,  wow its time to blame them again!!..

Hey look over there!!! the guy sweeping in front of his store, ....he looks like a Jew,... he looks like hes' doing well... lets start with him..

If we have to blame someone, lets blame ourselves, our greedy, selfish selves. We consume and consume and are never full. We have seen our neighbors in trouble and felt pity and then changed the channel and ate some more chips and dip. We throw out everything and anything and flush it all away with wild abandon all the while talking eco this and green that. We did this and we have got to ride it out ,,,... together.

And in the end, if you really need someone to point the finger at and load on that person a large part of the blame.... I give you George Bush and the Magical Republican War Machine spending trillions on war everywhere and grinding through a generation of wide eyed patriotic kids, that thought they were fighting for whats right.

Lets face it it still comes back to us, we're to blame. The great ignorant twit was voted in twice.

So lets start to deal.... people

 Not all Jews should be lumped together BUT that does'nt change the fact that the vast majority of bankers in the U.S. and throughout Europe are Jews [edited by Staff]

look who the people in bushes war machine are? all the neocons are same group of people that own banks...there is nothing to prove...its obvious and proven...its just you are stupid and you dont know it? bernanke? gaitner? maddoff? wanna more?

Have a look at the original paper (tinyurl.com/cqwuog) and see if you agree that this article is based on poor research:

1. Europe isn't placed in context. The ADL sponsored similar research in the USA in 2007 (tinyurl.com/2o3go4). A comparison of the results shows broadly more antisemitic responses in most European countries than in the USA - but the results vary widely across questions and across countries. For example, on the question "The Jews are responsible for the death of Christ", there were significantly more antisemitic responses in the USA than in all but two of the European countries. Overall, Britain, Germany and France (the countries that tend to be vilified in the USA as becoming increasingly antisemitic) are shown to be generally about as antisemitic as the USA. And in particular, responses in Britain are significantly less antisemitic for almost all questions than in the USA.
   
   
2. Antisemitism isn't placed in context. Other research, such as that by the Pew Research Center (tinyurl.com/co7ch4), shows that European views about other groups have also deteriorated in recent years.
   
   
3. The list of questions is biased: a significantly different list of questions was asked of Americans. Had Europeans been asked to respond to the positive statements about Jews that Americans were given, such as "Emphasis on importance of family life" and "Contributed much to cultural life" then a different picture of European views on Jews may have emerged.
   
   
4. The wording of specific questions is biased. In particular, asking for responses to the statement "Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust" assumes that Jews used to talk too much about the holocaust in the past. Well, if the scientist asking me is saying that Jews used to talk too much about the Holocaust, and I hear Jews I know talking as much about the Holocaust as they ever did - then they must logically still talk too much about the Holocaust.
   
   In addition, respondents are put in a spot because the questions don't make clear whether we're talking about Jews in general or about some people who just happen to be Jews. If a respondent answered that "a little blame should be put on Jews for the financial crisis", reasoning that some people responsible for the crisis were Christians, some were atheists, some were Muslims, some were Jews, and so on - then that would qualify as an antisemitic response. 

The overall bias of the survey leads readers to reach false conclusions. For example, this article states in bold that "31% of Europeans are sure that Jews made the crisis possible". Search the research paper for the number 31 and you'll find that 31% of Europeans are sure of no such thing.