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 October 7 terrorist attack last year, the number of such cases in Hungary remained unchanged, Kálmán Szalai, the foundation’s secretary, told a press conference on Thursday, according to a report by MTI.
He said TEV’s study showed that the Jewish community was safe in Hungary.
Antal Örkény, 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 fall 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.
István Grajczjár, 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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