{"id":93202,"date":"2026-07-10T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=93202"},"modified":"2026-07-12T03:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:48:32","slug":"majority-of-american-jews-feel-less-safe-in-the-us-since-oct-7-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/majority-of-american-jews-feel-less-safe-in-the-us-since-oct-7-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of American Jews feel less safe in the US since Oct. 7, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

By GRACE GILSON<\/p>\n

(JTA) \u2014 About 6 in 10 Jewish adults said they feel \u201cless safe\u201d living in the United States than they did before Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, according to a new survey released Friday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.<\/p>\n

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Police tactical teams maintain watch over the Boulder Jewish Festival on June 8, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. (Chet Strange\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The poll, which surveyed 1,022 Jewish adults from June 11 to June 17, found that 62% answered \u201cless safe\u201d when asked if they felt \u201cmore safe as a Jewish person in the United States, less safe, or about as safe\u201d than they did before the Oct. 7 attacks.<\/p>\n

Asked separately if they feel safe living in the United States today, 34% said they did, while 36% felt somewhat or very unsafe, and 29% said neither.<\/p>\n

Roughly 1 in 10 Jewish adults say they or someone else in their household was the victim of physical assault or property damage due to their Jewish identity in the past year, while about 2 in 10 have faced verbal or online harassment. The margin of error for Jewish respondents is +\/- 5.0 percentage points.<\/p>\n

About 4 in 10 Jewish adults said that they are now \u201cless likely\u201d to wear, carry or display things that might identify them as Jewish than they were before Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

The poll comes after the American Jewish Committee released a survey in February that found that one-third of American Jews reported being the target of an antisemitic incident in 2025. The February survey also found that two-thirds of respondents believed Jews in the United States were less secure than a year prior.<\/p>\n

The AP poll found that there was no partisan split among Jewish Democrats and Republicans regarding the severity of prejudice against Jews in the country, with 65% of Jewish Democrats and 67% of Jewish Republicans saying that prejudice against Jewish people is a serious problem.<\/p>\n

Jewish Republicans and Democrats were divided over other forms of bias, however. The survey found that while 83% of Jewish Democrats consider racism a serious problem, only 26% of Jewish Republicans agreed. Roughly two-thirds of Jewish Democrats said that Islamophobia and sexism are serious problems, while only 22% of Jewish Republicans agreed.<\/p>\n

The survey showed splits over what qualifies as antisemitic actions.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of Jews agreed that saying Israel shouldn\u2019t exist as a Jewish state was antisemitic, and 60% believed that saying American Jews are more loyal to Israel than the U.S. is antisemitic.<\/p>\n

Some 20% of U.S. Jews said that criticizing Israel for any reason was antisemitic, while a quarter said that criticizing Israel for its military actions was antisemitic. Additionally, 38% of U.S. Jews said that protesting an event that is supportive of Israel was antisemitic.<\/p>\n

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