Survey: Anti-Semitism on the rise in U.S.

By Stephanie Gaskell, Associated Press

NEW YORK - Reversing a 10-year decline, a new survey released yesterday found that 17 percent of Americans held "hard-core" anti-Semitic views.

"The evidence suggests that a strong undercurrent of Jewish hatred persists in America," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, which released the survey.

In 1992, the same survey found that 20 percent of Americans were anti-Semitic. That had fallen to 12 percent in 1998. "We believe that Sept. 11 and the Mideast conflict have clearly had an impact," Foxman said. "As these life-altering events have transformed us as a nation, they have also triggered the anti-Semitism that was already there, but buried beneath the surface."

The survey found that 35 percent of Americans fell into the "middle" category, having some faintly prejudiced views but not any strident bias. Forty-eight percent of the country was deemed prejudice-free, down from 53 percent in 1998.

The findings are based on an "index of anti-Semitic beliefs" used by researchers in four previous surveys over the last 35 years. The survey measured bias by the number of affirmative answers to 11 questions, including: "Do you believe Jews have too much power in the United States?"

Incidents of anti-Jewish attacks, mostly harassment and intimidation, rose in 2002, the ADL said. From January to May, it reported 626 incidents, compared with 564 in the same period last year.

The national survey, conducted from April 26 through May 6, polled 1,000 Americans over age 18. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

Posted on Wed, Jun. 12, 2002

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