Exactly.
Who were asked?. And VERY importantly, these questions were asked about ISRAEL not Jews. Criticism of Israel is NOT anti-Semitism!. Its no more ‘antisemitic’ to criticise Israel as a nation state than its ‘racist’ to dislike Obama.
Equating criticism of Israel with actual anti-Semitism is a lazy and cheap trick.
Sorry, but a lot of Israel haters say that though they hate Israel, they don’t hate Jews. In most cases, they’re just lying.
It is disturbing that such a high proportion of Britons would find Israel (or Jews for that matter) unfavorable when compared to any collection of nations, and I don’t doubt that anti-Semitism is indeed on the rise in Europe and elsewhere.
I do hold suspect conclusions drawn from surveys where respondents are given a limited number of, and often false, options to choose from.
You do raise an additional point; what percent of the British population is Islamic, and what what percent of the respondents to the survey were Islamic? Yes I realize that one doesn’t need to be a Moslem to be anti-Semitic.