Anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States are at a historic low, with 12 percent of Americans prejudiced toward Jews, according to an Anti-Defamation League survey released yesterday.
ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said the results could simply be attributed to the United States becoming “a more accepting society.” The League said the level of anti-Semitism matched that of 1998 as the lowest in the 45-year history of the poll.
“At the same time, there continues to be violence targeting Jews and an increasing use of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,” Foxman said.
“We can’t dismiss that 12 percent of the American people means that there are still over 30 million Americans that hold anti-Semitic views.”
When the poll was first conducted in 1964, it found that 29 percent of Americans held anti-Semitic views.