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Pew Research Center Sharp Rise in the Share of Americans Saying Jews Face Discrimination
Topic:
Antisemitism & Antizionism
Principal Investigators:
Carroll Doherty, Jocelyn Kiley, Bridget Johnson
Study Date:
2019
Source:
Pew Research Center,Berman Jewish DataBank
Key Findings:
The share of Americans saying Jews face discrimination in the U.S. has increased substantially since late 2016. In 2019, 64% of Americans say Jews face at least some discrimination, which is a 20-percentage-point increase from 2016. The share saying Jews face “a lot” of discrimination has nearly doubled, from 13% to 24%.
Democrats remain more likely than Republicans to say there is discrimination against Jews. Among members of both parties, the shares saying there is a lot of discrimination against Jews has roughly doubled since 2016 – from 15% to 28% among Democrats and from 9% to 20% among Republicans.
The 2019 survey conducted by Pew also finds majorities continue to say there is a lot or some discrimination against Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, gays and lesbians, and women. Muslims, in particular, are seen as facing more discrimination than other groups in society; 82% say Muslims face some discrimination, with 56% saying they encounter a lot of discrimination – the highest among nine groups included in the survey.
Methodology:
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted March 20-25, 2019 among a national sample of 1,503 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (300 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,203 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 792 who had no landline telephone).
The combined landline and cell phone sample is weighted using an iterative technique that matches gender, age, education, race, Hispanic origin and nativity, and region to parameters from the 2017 Census Bureau's American Community Survey one-year estimates and population density to parameters from the decennial census.