{"id":74129,"date":"2019-10-24T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=74129"},"modified":"2019-10-24T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T04:47:00","slug":"30-05-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=74129","title":{"rendered":"NEARLY 9 IN 10 AMERICAN JEWS SAY ANTISEMITISM IS A PROBLEM IN U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>NEARLY 9 IN 10 AMERICAN JEWS SAY ANTISEMITISM IS A PROBLEM IN U.S.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

RON KAMPEAS\/JTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Asked if antisemitism had increased over the past five years, 84 percent said it had: 43 percent said a lot and 41 said somewhat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (photo credit: WIKIMEDIA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

More than eight in 10 American Jews say that antisemitism has spiked in recent years and even more believe it is a problem in the United States, according to an American Jewish Committee survey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly three-quarters of respondents strongly disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling antisemitism and significantly more see the extreme political right as more of a serious threat to them than the extreme political left.<\/span><\/p>\n

The telephone survey of 1,283 Jewish adults conducted from Sept. 11 to Oct. 6 found that 88 percent of respondents believe that antisemitism was a problem: 50 percent as \u201csomewhat of a problem\u201d and 38 percent as a \u201cvery serious\u201d problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked if antisemitism had increased over the past five years, 84 percent said it had: 43 percent said a lot and 41 said somewhat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just 2 percent of respondents said they had been victims of a physical anti-Semitic attack over the same time frame, but 23 percent said they had been the target of an anti-Semitic remark in person, by mail or over the phone, and 20 percent said they had been targeted through social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Jews could not be clearer about the reality of antisemitism in the U.S.,\u201d the American Jewish Committee\u2019s CEO, David Harris, said in a news release Wednesday. \u201cOur survey provides, for the first time, an in-depth assessment of American Jewish perceptions of, and experiences with, antisemitism in their own country. This hatred is real, comes from multiple sources, and is growing. It needs to be taken seriously and dealt with in a sustained, multi-pronged response.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked if they approve or disapprove of Trump\u2019s handling of antisemitism, 72 percent said they disapprove \u2014 62 percent strongly \u2014 and 24 percent approve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has\u00a0spoken out<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0forcefully at times against antisemitism, but also has equivocated at times,\u00a0notably<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0after the deadly neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. He also has\u00a0downplayed<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0the threat of violent white nationalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

The president\u2019s overall ratings saw similar numbers: 76 percent unfavorable and 22 percent favorable.<\/span><\/p>\n

The respondents mostly identified as liberal, at 56 percent, and Democrats, 53 percent. Among the others, 21 percent each identified as \u201cmiddle of the road\u201d and conservative. Fourteen percent said they were Republicans and 23 percent Independents.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were likelier to perceive a threat from the far right and radical Muslims than they did from the left. The extreme right posed a threat for 89 percent of respondents, including 49 percent who said it was very serious and 29 percent calling it moderately serious.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked about \u201cextremism in the name of Islam,\u201d 85 percent said it posed a threat: 27 percent each said it was very serious and moderately serious, and 31 percent calling it slight. Asked about extremism from the extreme left, 64 percent identified a threat, with a total of 36 percent calling it very serious or moderately serious and 28 percent saying the threat is slight.<\/span><\/p>\n

The respondents seemed likelier to see the threat emerging from the far right, with 49 percent calling it very serious as opposed to 15 percent from the far left.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked about the political parties and their responsibility for the current level of antisemitism, the respondents rated Republicans at 6.2 on a scale with 10 as the highest, while Democrats came in at 3.6.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly two-thirds of respondents were familiar or somewhat familiar with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. Twenty-four percent said they were not at all familiar with BDS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the 1,013 respondents who had at least some familiarity with the movement, 35 percent characterized it as \u201cmostly anti-Semitic,\u201d 47 percent said it had \u201csome anti-Semitic supporters\u201d and 14 percent said it was not anti-Semitic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked to characterize the statement \u201cIsrael has no right to exist,\u201d 84 percent of respondents said it was anti-Semitic. They also were asked about two other statements: \u201cThe U.S. government only supports Israel because of Jewish money\u201d and \u201cAmerican Jews are more loyal to Israel than to America.\u201d The former was seen as anti-Semitic by 80 percent and the latter by 73 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked if they \u201cavoid certain places, events, or situations out of concern for your safety or comfort as a Jew,\u201d 25 percent of respondents said they did, while 31 percent said they avoided \u201cPublicly wearing, carrying, or displaying things that might help people identify you as a Jew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The survey did not break down those numbers to assess whether the core issue was safety or comfort, nor did it place the question in a time frame. There are factors not having to do with antisemitism that inhibit Jewish participation in certain things \u2014 many Orthodox Jews, for instance, will not enter a church because of religious prohibitions. Notably, just 5 percent avoided \u201cVisiting Jewish institutions or participating in Jewish events because you would not feel safe there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The AJC said the survey, conducted by SSRS, had a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points.<\/span><\/p>\n

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