Blame the Jews? This report is shocking, maddening, distressing, and more.
In total, 67 percent of Greek respondents agreed with the majority of a list of anti-Semitic statements included in the survey. ...
According to the ADL poll, 90 percent of Greeks agreed with the statement that “Jews have too much power in the business world” and 85 percent agreed “Jews have too much power in international finance markets.” ...
Over one-quarter of respondents also said they believe the number of Jews reported to have died in the Holocaust has been “greatly exaggerated.” One-third said Jews are “responsible for most of the world’s wars” and 41 percent agreed that “People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.”
The ADL poll is a follow-up to its 2014 Global 100 survey. Since 2014, the percentage of people holding anti-Semitic views in France, Germany, and Belgium has decreased. Each of these countries has recently experienced attacks on Jews.
France had the most significant drop. Last year, 37 percent of respondents agreed with the majority of the list of anti-Jewish statements included in the survey. In the latest 2015 poll, just 17 percent agreed with the majority of the statements.
The poll also found widespread anti-Semitism among Muslims across Europe. Fifty-five percent agreed with the majority of anti-Jewish statements included in the survey.
However, European Muslims were still less likely to hold anti-Semitic views than Muslims in the Middle East, and significantly less likely to hold anti-Semitic views than the general population of Greece. [emphasis added]
Also see this in Haaretz:
In Greece, anti-Semitic viewpoints are aired frequently, particularly the notions that Jews control the global economy and politics. In 2012, when the Golden Dawn’s Kasidiaris read in Parliament from the anti-Semitic forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the reading drew no condemnation from the other lawmakers present.
Nor was there public condemnation when Golden Dawn slammed the recent visit by the American Jewish Committee’s executive director, David Harris, as a trip to ensure further “Jewish influence over Greek political issues” and safeguard the interests of “international loan sharks.”
Golden Dawn hasn’t been alone in expressing such sentiments. ...
Even the mainstream political parties have long histories of using anti-Semitic tropes.
“Greeks are fond of conspiracy theories, as they are steeped in conspiracy on a personal level,” Euthymios Tsiliopoulos, a journalist and political commentator, wrote on the popular current affairs website The Times of Change in the wake of the Karypidis scandal.
“As so many things are conducted through under-the-table, backroom deals, most naturally assume that the whole world is run in this manner,” he wrote. “As such, there is willingness to believe that the hardships the country and its inhabitants have undergone throughout the centuries is due to the machinations of foreigners. After all, it’s easier to believe this than to fix the perennial ills plaguing Greek society.”