The stats of US anti-Semitism: A new survey has some clear and dismal data
YouGov study of over 3,000 American adults finds anti-Semitic attitudes are ‘far more prevalent on the right’ and among racial minorities
A crowd protests anti-Semitism in New York City, Oct. 15, 2020. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images, via JTA)
JTA — Is anti-Semitism more of a problem on the left or the right?
Should Jews concentrate their energy on combating the far right? Or should they focus on fighting anti-Israel bias on campus? How do questions of race relations in the United States play into anti-Jewish bigotry?
As anti-Semitism has risen in the United States in recent years, these questions have preoccupied and divided Jewish leaders, activists and journalists, along with ordinary American Jews struggling to understand a country that may feel less safe than it once was.
Now a
survey of American adults, published this week, hopes to answer those questions with data. And the results, according to the two academics who authored it, are clear:
Conservatives are more likely to hold anti-Semitic attitudes than liberals, with young conservatives being the most likely to believe stereotypes about Jews.
The survey of more than 3,000 American adults, most of them aged 30 and under,
also found that Black and Latino respondents were more likely than white respondents to hold anti-Semitic attitudes. And it found that young people on the far left were more likely to hold Jews responsible for Israel’s actions than those in the center or right.