The Huffington Post UK | 14/05/2014
By Jessica Elgot
One in four people worldwide hold anti-Jewish prejudice, and Europe
has more people with anti-semitic views than Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa,
new research has shown.
Researchers for the US-based Anti-Defamation League
asked participants questions about 11 Jewish stereotypes - and found
them to be anti-semitic if they found more than six of them to be true.
The UK has just 8% of people holding anti-semitic views, one of the
world's lowest. But the lowest was in the south-east Asian country of
Laos, where prejudice was expressed by just 0.2% of the population.
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