Nearly one-quarter of the people of France believe that Jews exert “too great an influence” in France, according to a poll conducted by the French Institute of Public Opinion. The poll was conducted before the affair of the five gunboats which evaded the French embargo and sailed from Cherbourg for Israel.
Nearly 45 percent of those interviewed in the poll thought that the Jewish influence in France was “normal.” But the newspaper, L’Express, which sponsored the poll, remarked that there was an inherent tendency toward anti-Semitism in France that was not confined to any specific element of the population.
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