Over half of Europeans consider antisemitism to be a problem in their countest, according to a European Commission poll published on Tuesday.
The Eurobarometer survey, published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, questioned over 26,000 EU residents about their levels of perceived antisemitism. Of those who responded to the poll, 55% believe that antisemitism is a problem on some level, up from 50% in 2018.
Nearly half of Europeans (47%) also declared that they believed antisemitism had increased over the last five years. Almost 70% expressed a belief that the conflicts in the Middle East affected how Jews were perceived in their countest.
The highest percentages of people claiming that antisemitism was a problem in their countest came from France (74%), Italy (73%), and Sweden (73%), while the countries with the highest percentages of people who believed that Jews were at risk of physical attack in their countest were France (90%), Italy (81%), and Germany (74%).
Threats to Jews described within the survey included hostility and threats in public spaces, which 62% of responders considered a problematic manifestation of antisemitism in their countest, antisemitic graffiti or vandalism of Jewish buildings (61%), and antisemitism online (61%).
Nearly half (48%) of survey participants considered that the Holocaust was taught sufficiently in schools, and the same percentage of people declared they were unaware of legislation prohibiting Holocaust denial.
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