EURO-ANTISEMITISM ALERT: There’s a new poll of European attitudes, and it’s pretty sad. William Sjostrom has the scoop. Excerpt:

To statement 2, which essentially asks whether you agree that Jews are cheats, they get agreement from 33% in Spain, 28% in Austria, and 27% in Italy. 63% in Spain agreed with statement 4. Read it and smack the next European who tells you that Europe isn’t anti-Semitic, it is just anti-Israel.

Indeed.

UPDATE: Nick Denton says Sjostrom is wrong. But I think Nick is straining here when he says: “Muslims are no longer protected by political correctness; but Jews are beyond criticism. It’s an untenable distinction.” In Europe — historical home of antisemitism and slaughter of Jews — it is indeed remarkable that, as Nick notes, “some European countries have managed to maintain high levels of anti-semitism without any significant Jewish community.” When such nations show high degrees of stereotyped prejudice without any actual examples before them, it seems to be more attributable to prejudice than to “criticism.” Complaints about, say, suicide bombing, on the other hand seem to me like “criticism,” since they’re based on actual behavior rather than historical stereotypes — and critics of suicide bombing seem quite willing to say that such behavior represents the beliefs of only some Muslims.

UPDATE: Reader Dan Jacobson emails:

But the distinction isn’t at all untenable, most obviously because Denton has built into his comparison a description of the Muslims (as fundamentalist) but not the Jews.

Just try saying “Muslims are violent” and see if you don’t get smeared, with some justification, and told about Sufism, the diversity of worldwide Islam, etc. The claim that Muslims aren’t protected by political correctness is nothing less than bizarre: just look at the treatment of the sniper and the LAX shooter by mainstream media (not to mention the FBI).

However, *fundamentalist* Islam does tend toward violence, in that one of the fundamental — which is not to say essential — tenets of Islam is the establishment of Islamic law and forcible conversion of infidels. That’s not a tenet of Orthodox Judaism, and even though evangelism is a prominent feature of fundamentalist Christianity, its missionaries aren’t into coercive measures any more.

No, they’re not. Though Ann Coulter is working on that. . . .