European Union leaders are systematically ignoring antisemitic views held by their citizens, a new report presented to the Israeli government today warns.
More than 40 per cent of people in the EU agreed with the claim that Israelis were behaving like the Nazis, according to six different studies conducted mostly in Germany but including eight other countries.
The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, an Israeli state body, said in its 2015 report that "the interpretation of these findings is that more than 150 million of the 400 million EU citizens, aged over 16, are holding views that are classified as antisemitic."
Leaders of the EU and its member states "systematically ignore this issue," it declared.
