Poll: 69% of US Jews say Republican Party holds anti-Semitic views
Survey published by AJC finds 43% of American Jews feel less secure than a year ago
Close to 70 percent of American Jews think that the Republican Party holds anti-Semitic views, a new survey published the American Jewish Committee on Monday showed.
Only 37 percent, in contrast, say that the Democratic Party holds anti-Semitic views.
The survey, titled “The State of Antisemitism in America 2020: Survey of American Jews,” was published just nine days before the US elections for the presidency.
The AJC is a non-partisan organization that releases annual surveys on the state of anti-Semitism in the US. This year’s trend has been similar to that of 2019, as a staggering 88 percent of American Jews assess that anti-Semitism is “much of a problem” in the US today.
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Around 43 percent responded that the status of Jews in the US is less secure than a year ago. Only four percent replied that their status is more secure -- the rest answered that it hasn’t changed.
In the aftermath of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting that left 11 people dead, 56 percent said that Jewish institutions they are affiliated with have increased their security measures.
While the difference in anti-Semitism attributed to the Republican and Democratic parties was large, the difference of anti-Semitism coming from the “extreme political right” and “extreme political left” was less apparent. Eighty-nine percent thought that the former posed a threat of anti-Semitism while 61 percent assessed that the latter was similarly dangerous.