{"id":139669,"date":"2026-07-18T07:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/takeaways-from-the-ap-norc-poll-of-more-than-1000-jewish-americans\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:12:19","slug":"takeaways-from-the-ap-norc-poll-of-more-than-1000-jewish-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/takeaways-from-the-ap-norc-poll-of-more-than-1000-jewish-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Takeaways from the AP-NORC poll of more than 1,000 Jewish Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE – Hasidic Jewish men chat on June 16, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo\/Andres Kudacki, File)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Andres Kudacki, File)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Associated Press surveyed more than 1,000 Jewish adults in the U.S. to better understand their views on Israel’s military actions in Gaza, their opinions of the political parties and their experiences with prejudice in the United States.<\/p>\n

The survey of 1,022 Jewish adults \u2014 including people who identify as Jewish by religion and religiously unaffiliated people who identify as Jewish through culture, ethnicity or family background \u2014 offers a rare detailed accounting of a key demographic that sits at the very center of some of the nation\u2019s most divisive political debates.<\/p>\n

Here are five takeaways from the AP-NORC survey:<\/p>\n

Jewish adults have complicated views about Israel and the war in Gaza<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among Jews with a religious affiliation, views on Israel\u2019s recent military actions<\/a> are far from uniform or uncritical.<\/p>\n

About 7 in 10 Jewish adults overall identify as Jewish when asked about their religious affiliation. The rest, about 3 in 10 Jewish adults, say they are atheists, agnostics, or have no particular religious affiliation, but still identify as Jewish in other ways.<\/p>\n

While about 8 in 10 of those with a religious affiliation say Israel\u2019s immediate military response to Hamas\u2019 attack on October 7 was \u201cjustified,\u201d only about half say Israel\u2019s ongoing military operations in Gaza are justified. Among Jewish adults without a religious affiliation, only about half saw Israel’s immediate response as justifiable. Now, only about 2 in 10 say the ongoing military operations are acceptable.<\/p>\n

About one-quarter of Jewish adults with a religious association believe Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, an accusation that\u2019s been leveled<\/a> by some major human rights organizations and a team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations. That accusation has been vehemently denied by Israel and the U.S. government. Roughly 4 in 10 Jewish adults without a religious affiliation say Israel has committed genocide.<\/p>\n

Many Jewish adults feel unsafe in the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n

About 6 in 10 Jewish adults say prejudice against Jewish people is an \u201cextremely\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d serious problem<\/a> in the United States today.<\/p>\n

About one-third of Jewish adults in the survey<\/a> say they feel \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d safe as a Jewish person in the U.S. today, while about one-third feel \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d unsafe. The remaining roughly 3 in 10 say they feel neither safe nor unsafe.<\/p>\n

A significant share of Jewish adults, about 3 in 10, say they or someone in their household has experienced physical assault, verbal abuse, online harassment or damaged property because of their Jewish background over the last year, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

The survey points to how Jewish adults\u2019 attitudes toward their own personal safety have changed over a relatively short period as more Americans became critical of the United States\u2019 close alliance with Israel and the war in Gaza. The poll found that Jewish adults who feel a close emotional tie to Israel are particularly likely to feel unsafe in the country today.<\/p>\n

Most American Jews don\u2019t feel politicians are supporting Jewish people <\/strong><\/p>\n

Few Jewish adults believe that President Donald Trump<\/a> \u2014 or the Democratic or Republican parties \u2014 are doing a good job supporting Jewish people in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Only about 2 in 10 Jewish adults say Trump supports Jewish people in this country \u201cextremely\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d well. That\u2019s similar to the slight share who find the Republican Party and the Democratic Party highly supportive, but Jewish adults are more likely to say the Democratic Party is at least \u201csomewhat\u201d supportive.<\/p>\n

Americans overall are more likely than Jewish adults to see Trump as \u201cextremely\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d supportive of Jewish people in the United States. About 3 in 10 U.S. adults say Trump is highly supportive of Jewish people, compared to about 2 in 10 Jewish adults.<\/p>\n

The poll also found most Jewish adults have negative views of Trump. About 7 in 10 Jewish adults have a \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d unfavorable opinion of Trump, compared to about 3 in 10 who have a favorable view.<\/p>\n

Jewish adults are divided over whether protesting Israel is a form of antisemitism <\/strong><\/p>\n

Protests around events conducted in support of Israel became more common following the backlash over Israel\u2019s military action<\/a> in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The war in Gaza began with Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed roughly 1,200 people, most of them civilians. Israel responded with a yearslong counterattack that killed more than 73,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which is part of the territory’s Hamas-run government. Its casualty figures are viewed as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and international organizations but don\u2019t distinguish between civilians and militants.<\/p>\n

The poll found that about half of Jewish adults say protesting an event that is supportive of Israel is not a form of antisemitism, but roughly 4 in 10 say it is. About 1 in 10 are uncertain.<\/p>\n

Jewish adults are more unified in deeming some actions as definitively antisemitic. The overwhelming majority say vandalizing synagogues or Jewish-owned businesses because of Israel\u2019s actions is antisemitism. The same goes for denying the reality or scope of the Holocaust, putting responsibility for Israel\u2019s actions on Jewish people in the United States or saying Israel shouldn\u2019t exist as a Jewish state.<\/p>\n

Support for Israel is less of a priority for younger Jewish adults<\/strong><\/p>\n

Support for Israel is a key component of the religious identity of many older Jewish adults<\/a> in the United States, but younger Jewish adults appear less likely to prioritize it.<\/p>\n

About half of older religious Jewish adults \u2014 those 45 and older \u2014 say that supporting Israel is \u201cextremely\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d important for their Jewish identity. By contrast, only about 4 in 10 younger religious Jewish adults emphasize support for Israel.<\/p>\n

Younger Jewish adults are more likely to prioritize other forms of connection, like celebrating Jewish holidays<\/a>. About 7 in 10 Jewish adults under 45 say celebrating Jewish holidays is at least \u201cvery\u201d important to their Jewish identity, compared to about half of older Jewish adults.<\/p>\n

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FILE – An Orthodox Jewish man crosses the street as athletes in the men's elite division make their way through Brooklyn during the New York City Marathon, Nov. 2, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura, File)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura, File)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FILE – Hasidic Jewish men chat on June 16, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo\/Andres Kudacki, File)(AP Photo\/Andres Kudacki, File) WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Associated Press surveyed more than 1,000 Jewish adults in the U.S. to better understand their views on Israel’s military actions in Gaza, their opinions of the political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-139669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139669"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=139669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}