Poland Poll Reveals Stubborn Anti-Semitism Amid Jewish Revival Hopes
A majority of respondents in a recent Polish national survey believe that there’s a Jewish conspiracy to control international banking and the media. And 90% of these Poles say they’ve never met a Jew.
The national study, conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at Warsaw University, found that in Poland, the belief in a Jewish conspiracy remains high – 63% in 2013 – and relatively unchanged from 2009 when 65% of respondents held this belief.
The study also found an 8 percent increase in more traditional forms of anti-Semitism, including blaming Jews for the murder of Jesus Christ and the belief that Christian blood is used in Jewish rituals. Some 23% were found to hold such traditional, religious-based beliefs about Jews.
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In an email, Bilewicz said that most members of the Polish parliament praised the study and many suggested education measures to fight prejudice. The one skeptical voice, he said, was that of Dorota Arciszewska-Mielewczyk, a center-right Law and Justice Party member, who “suggested that Polish Jews are represented by the Knesset rather than the Polish parliament.”
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Before the Holocaust there were 3.2 million Jews in Poland, compared with an estimated 10,000 Jews today.
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/191155/poland-poll-reveals-stubborn-anti-semitism-amid-je/?p=all#ixzz2rfj9UvKM
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Hmmm...that Knesset remark sounds so familiar.
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-- that social progress was inevitable and that people learned lessons from their country's past.
That was what I believed when I was young. I no longer do. 
