Poll shows anti-Semitism in US down 3% in 2 years
As the Anti-Defamation League celebrated its centennial Thursday, it revealed that anti-Semitism had declined by three percent in the last two years, but that some Americans still hold fast to “classic anti-Semitic canards.”
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The survey was conducted by phone and included 1,200 respondents. The first such poll, which was conducted in 1964, found that 29% of Americans harbored anti-Jewish attitudes. “It is heartening that attitudes toward Jews have improved over the last few years and, historically, have declined significantly in America,” ADL director Abe Foxman said of this year’s findings.
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The poll found that 14% of Americans agree with the statement that “Jews have too much power in the US today” (unchanged from 2011), while 19% believe Jews have too much power in the business world (down from 20% in 2011), 17% think Jews have too much control on Wall Street (down from 19% in 2011) and 18% say Jews have too much influence over American news media.
Thirty percent of respondents said they believe American Jews are “more loyal to Israel” than to the US, with 15 percent saying Jews were “more willing to use shady practices.”
“It is particularly frustrating that since 1964, 30 percent of Americans have consistently believed that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their home country of America. This dual-loyalty charge has tenaciously persisted despite the sweeping demographic changes that have taken place over the past fifty years,” Foxman said.
Twenty-six percent said they believe “Jews were responsible for the death of Christ,” down from 31 percent in 2011. Nearly a fourth said they agreed that “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.”
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