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Some 42% of respondents said they don’t wear or otherwise display identifiable Jewish symbols, up from 26% who said they hid their Jewish identity in a November 2023 AJC poll.
Four in 10 Jewish Americans say they try to hide their religious identity, according to a new Washington Post poll that also reported almost one in three respondents saying they don’t feel safe as a Jew in the United States.In the survey, 42% of respondents said they do not wear, carry or display anything in public that could identify them as Jewish, with 58% saying they do. In an American Jewish Committee poll taken in November 2023, a month after Oct. 7, just 26% said they hid their Jewish identity, while 73% said they did not.
Almost one-third of Jewish Americans (31%) said they did not feel safe, while 69% said they did.
By 95% to 5%, respondents said that there was more antisemitism in the United States, and 85% said there was a lot of or some antisemitism at college campuses, with 15% saying there was little or none.
In the poll, which was conducted before U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, just 29% of Jewish Americans approved of his performance in office, with 71% disapproving. By 65% to 35%, they said that he did not understand the concerns of American Jews.
