Anti-Semitism in Poland and Ukraine: The Belief in Jewish Control as a Mechanism of Scapegoating

Anti-Semitism in Poland and Ukraine: The Belief in Jewish Control as a Mechanism of Scapegoating

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<div>Systemic transition in post-communist Eastern Europe Sailing Vests resulted in high inflation, rapid economic changes, and increased lack of control in everyday life.At</div><div>the same time, anti-Semitic incidents were reported in this region after 1989.The ideological model of scapegoating (Glick 2002; 2005) might serve as</div><div>an explanation of anti-Semitic prejudice in post-transition Eastern Europe.The model predicts that the ideology defining Jews as powerful, cunning, and</div><div>dangerous would gain popularity in times of crises and would lead to greater discrimination against Jews.

In two nationwide representative sample studies</div><div>of anti-Semitism, in Poland (n = 1098) and Ukraine (n = 1000), we applied the ideological model of scapegoating to study various forms of anti-Semitism</div><div>(conspiracy-based belief in Jewish control and discriminatory intentions toward Jews).In both samples, economic deprivation led to increased discriminatory</div><div>intentions 5-Piece Sectional with Storage Consoles toward Jews; however, only in the Polish sample was deprivation linked with higher beliefs in Jewish control (scapegoat-defining ideology).In</div><div>Poland the rise of conspiracy beliefs about Jewish control partially explained the effect of deprivation on discriminatory intentions toward Jews.The implications</div><div>of these results are discussed.

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