UK: 26% of Muslims believe Jews responsible for most wars, 35% believe Jews have too much power

Via Jewish Chronicle:

Asked whether they thought antisemitism was a problem in Britain today, only 26 per cent of 1,081 British Muslims who took part in the poll said they would describe it as “a problem” – compared to 46 per cent of the 1,008 people in the poll’s control group, representative of the average UK citizen.

The poll also examined reaction to antisemitic conspiracy theories. It found that 35 per cent of British Muslims “agreed” with the suggestion that Jewish people have too much power in Britain – compared to just nine per cent in the national average.

Thirty one per cent agreed that Jews have too much power in government compared to seven per cent in the national average; 39 per cent of Muslims felt Jewish people have too much power over the media, compared to 10 per cent nationally; while 44 per cent of British Muslims said Jews have too much power in business compared to 18 per cent.

More than 40 per cent of British Muslims said Jews were more loyal to Israel than the UK, while 34 per cent said Jewish people talk “too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust”.

It found that 26 per cent of British Muslims believe that Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars, compared to six per cent nationally; while 27 per cent said that people hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.

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