CNN Poll: 1 in 5 Europeans Say Jews Hold 'Too Much Influence'

A recent poll of Europeans on their attitude towards Jews found that a significant portion know little to nothing about the Holocaust, believe Jews have too much influence over politics and finance, and believe that anti-Semitism is a reaction to Jewish actions.

CNN and pollster ComRes polled over 7,000 people in multiple countries across Europe. They found that more than one in four think Jews hold too much influence in finance and business, and almost one in four think they are too influential in conflicts around the world. One in five said Jews have too much influence on the media and in politics.

Respondents also tended to overestimate the number of Jews in the world. A quarter of Hungarians and a fifth of Brits and Poles thought that more than 20 percent of people in the world are Jewish. The Pew Research Center found in a worldwide study that about .2 percent of the global population is Jewish. Four in 10 Europeans thought that their countries were between 3 and 10 percent Jewish, but no country other than Israel is more than 2 percent Jewish.

One third of Europeans polled said they knew little to nothing about the Holocaust, in which roughly six million Jews were killed. One in 20 said they had never heard of the Holocaust, including one in every five people between the ages of 18 and 34.

ComRes polled 7,092 adults in seven European countries, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Sweden and Austria, from Sept. 7 to Sept. 20, 2018.

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