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So far we have dealt with people who Jewish respondents identify as those who utter the antisemitic comments they hear or read about . A different , but related question is who they perceive to be the perpetrator ( s ) of physical attacks or threats they have experienced because they are Jewish . We asked those in our sample who indicated that they had experienced physical attacks or threats in the preceding five years 9 : Thinking about the incident where somebody attacked or threatened you in a way that frightened you because you are Jewish – who did this to you ? The respondents were given an opportunity to choose between several different kinds of possible perpetrators , among them members of one of the four groups we discussed above , viz . someone with right-wing or left-wing political view , as well as someone with Christian or Muslim extremist views . 10 The result is shown below in Figure 30 :
9 The number of respondents who reported to have been victims of such attacks was around 7 %. The number of persons in Latvia who reported such experiences was too few to constitute a base for statistical description . 10 The list of options to choose from read like this : 1 . Family / household member ; 2 . Neighbour ; 3 . Colleague , boss
or supervisor at work ; 4 . Someone from school , college or university ; 5 . A customer , client or patient ; 6 . Someone with a right-wing political view ; 7 . Someone with a left-wing political view ; 8 . Teenager or group of teenagers ; 9 . Doctor , healthcare worker ; 10 . Police officer or border guard ; 11 . Public official ( e . g . a civil servant ); 12 . Private security guard ; 13 . Someone with a Christian extremist view ; 14 . Someone with a Muslim extremist view ; 15 . Someone else ( specify ); Don ’ t know . Approximately 50 % of those who identified someone as a perpetrator identified this person or group to belong to one of the four categories we have focussed on here .
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