How Do Muslims and Jews in Christian Countries See Each Other Today? A Survey Review
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Muslim–Jewish relations have a long and complex history. However, notions that all Jews and Muslims are eternal enemies are proven wrong both historically and by today’s survey data. A comprehensive review of the available survey data from the last two decades provides a glimpse into the views of Muslims and Jews of each other in countries where both communities are a minority. It is based on surveys from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S., including more than 91,000 respondents, comprising almost 27,000 Muslims and, in additional surveys, more than 52,000 Jewish respondents. Many Muslims and Jews acknowledge that the other community suffers from discrimination, albeit to varying degrees. Jews often see Islam and Muslim extremists as a threat to Jews, but most Jews, more than society in general, seem to distinguish between Muslim extremists and Muslims in general. Antisemitic attitudes are significantly higher among Muslims than among the general population in all surveys, even though the majority of Muslims in most European countries and in the United States do not exhibit antisemitic attitudes. The differences in anti-Jewish attitudes between Muslims and non-Muslims do not disappear when controlling for sociodemographic factors.
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Antisemitism: Muslim Islamophobia Attitudes to Jews Jewish - Muslim Relations Main Topic: Other Bibliography and Literature Reviews
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Austria Belgium Denmark France Europe Germany Hungary Italy Latvia Netherlands Russia Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States of America
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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14(3)
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412
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Link to article including link to pdf, How Do Muslims and Jews in Christian Countries See Each Other Today? A Survey Review
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How Do Muslims and Jews in Christian Countries See Each Other Today? A Survey Review. 2023: 412. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.3390/rel14030412
