Young people in Britain are more likely to believe a variety of antisemitic tropes about Jews and Israel, including doubts about the trustworthiness of Jewish people, viewing Israel as behaving like Nazis toward the Palestinians and exploiting the Holocaust for political gain, according to a survey published Wednesday.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog said in a statement that the results of its poll “revealed worrying levels of anti-Jewish prejudice among the British public, with particularly frightening rates among young people aged between 18 and 24.”
Among the results was that around one-third of the public believes Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews, including over half of 18- to 24-year-olds surveyed.
The survey also found that 46% of British adults believe in at least one antisemitic statement.
Over a tenth of Britons believe that Jewish people seek money more than others in society, according to the poll, and that Jews have too much power in media, relative to other groups.
