New Survey Reveals Hungarians Increasingly Sympathetic to Jewish Community, More "Hesitant" People Too
- 11 Oct 2024 9:50 AM
While Hungarians have generally grown more sympathetic towards the Jewish community since Hamas's terrorist attack against Israel a year ago, the number of so-called "hesitant" people who tend to keep their distance from the community has also grown, according to a fresh survey by the Action and Protection Foundation (TEV).
TEV, a Jewish foundation that combats anti-Semitism in Hungary, has found that while the number of violent anti-Semitic incidents doubled in Germany and Britain from 2022 to 2023, with most of them committed after the Oct 7 terrorist attack, the number of such cases in Hungary remained unchanged, Kalman Szalai, the foundation's secretary, told a press conference on Thursday. He said TEV's study showed that the Jewish community was safe in Hungary.
Antal Orkeny, a doctor of sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, said a unique aspect of TEV's representative survey examining anti-Semitic attitudes was that it had been conducted in the autumn of 2023 after Hamas's terrorist attack but also contained the findings of a follow-up survey done in March this year focusing on the developments in Israel.
The survey was conducted with a sample of 1,000 people, he said.
Istvan Grajczjar, a professor and department head at Milton Friedman University, the institution that carried out the survey, said the ratio of philo-Semites and anti-Semites remained unchanged in Hungary.
He added, however, that the number of so-called "hesitant" people who tend to keep their distance from the community and reject both positive and negative statements about Jews has increased.
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Source:
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.
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