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Antisemitic attitudes doubled among Americans since 2019

More Americans than there are Jews said Jews are too powerful, selfish, foreign, and clannish

January 13, 2023 16:33
A law enforcement vehicle sits in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. All four people who were held hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue have been safely released after more than 10 hours of being held captive by a gunman. Yesterday, police responded to a hostage situation after reports of a man with a gun was holding people captive (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS - JANUARY 16: A law enforcement vehicle sits in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. All four people who were held hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue have been safely released after more than 10 hours of being held captive by a gunman. Yesterday, police responded to a hostage situation after reports of a man with a gun was holding people captive. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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A new survey finds that the percentage of Americans agreeing to six or more “classic” antisemitic statements has doubled since similar surveys in 2014, 2015, and 2019. 

The research, carried out by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a US-based Jewish NGO specialising in civil rights law, delved further into anti-Israel sentiments than its previous surveys and revealed substantial belief in anti-Jewish tropes – including perceptions Jews are too powerful, selfish, foreign, and clannish. 

The survey of a representative sample of more than 4,000 U.S. adults asked the extent to which Americans agreed with different statements about anti-Jewish tropes and found that 20 per cent of Americans – as many as 66 million people – agreed with six or more of the 11 anti-Jewish statements used since 1964. 

The survey concluded that 40 of Americans agree, at least to some extent, that “Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews”.