Survey: 31% of Europeans blame economic crisis on Jews

This survey demonstrates how old, old misconceptions die hard. When will people look to themselves for solutions rather than seek some else to blame?

I lived in Europe for ten years and my mother and her family and my father's mother are all European immigrants.

You would be surprised at how many times my wife, African-American, had minor but real incidents of racism while living in Italy. I would go back to see how I got treated as a white man just to verify. Sometimes everybodygot treated badly in some places,especially in Rome, regardless of race, but she had more racist incidents in three years in Rome than in more than ten years in LA.

Europeans' racism is very real. And in the East, do you remember what happened in Yugoslavia in the '90s?

the study does not provide the result you wish to have people believe. if 31% of european countries claim america is to blame for global warming, it does not mean they are anti-american.

have you any statistics on the breakdown of wall street executives and their religion? that would help dispell the direct link you make, or support it.

Here's a little more info...from the ap.

Isn't all this racism the same as after the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks? -ie, mob's and people disgusted with their actions and went looking for blood.

I blame it all on crooks who got away with investors money, their names didnt sound jewish though~

time magazine - list of who/what to blame.

I have lived mostly in France, a country where there are comparatively high levels of anti-jewish sentiment, for the last twenty one years. Whatever the merits or not of the survey mentioned in this post, I considedr that if that survey had been held in France only, it would have given significantly higher figures....

There is no doubt in my mind that anti-Semitism is on the rise, and is openly on the prowl again in Europe and elsewhere. The Holocaust made it extremely unpopular to be openly antisemitic for a generation. But with the passage of time this terrifying truth becomes apparent: Judeophobia was not destroyed by the events of the 20th century. Rather it has been laying quiet, out of fashion but seething, and now it has reemerged as virulent as ever. After all, what has really changed in Europe? The character of the civilization? Did the Shoa alter the basic nature of European antisemites? I think not.

Antisemitism morphed via industrialization, nationalism and pseudo-scientific claims about 'blood' into its modern form over the past 200 years. Jews became targets and scapegoats for everything from job losses to moral anarchy during the industrial revolution; they were viewed with suspicion during the rise of nationalism; and their doom was sealed when the focus shifted from 'spiritual' heresy to 'blood' guilt. This is modern antisemitism. One would like to think that education would have dispelled these myths, but that's naive.

And by the way this has nothing to do with Zionism. It predates the secular Zionist movement but now feeds on it.