Antisemitism in the United States

====After 2005====
In 2007 an [[ABC News]] report recounted that past ABC polls across several years have tended to find that about 6% of Americans self-report prejudice against Jews as compared to about 25% being against [[Arab Americans]] and about 10% against [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic Americans]]. The report also remarked that a full 34% of Americans reported having "some racist feelings" in general as a self-description.<ref name=abc>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/images/US/1048a1Hispanics.pdf|title=Aquí Se Habla Español – and Two-Thirds Don't Mind|work=[[ABC News]]|date=Oct 8, 2007|access-date=Dec 20, 2013}}</ref>

A 2009 study which was titled "Modern Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israeli Attitudes", published in the ''[[Journal of Personality and Social Psychology]]'' in 2009, tested a new theoretical model of antisemitism among Americans in the Greater New York area with three experiments. The research team's theoretical model proposed that [[mortality salience]] (reminding people that they will someday die) increases antisemitism and that antisemitism is often expressed as anti-Israel attitudes. The first experiment showed that mortality salience led to higher levels of antisemitism and lower levels of support for Israel. The study's methodology was designed to tease out antisemitic attitudes that are concealed by polite people. The second experiment showed that mortality salience caused people to perceive Israel as very important, but did not cause them to perceive any other country this way. The third experiment showed that mortality salience led to a desire to punish Israel for human rights violations but not to a desire to punish Russia or India for identical human rights violations. According to the researchers, their results "suggest that Jews constitute a unique cultural threat to many people's worldviews, that antisemitism causes hostility to Israel, and that hostility to Israel may feed back to increase antisemitism." Furthermore, "those claiming that there is no connection between antisemitism and hostility toward Israel are wrong."<ref>Modern Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israeli Attitudes, Florette Cohen, Department of Psychology, The College of Staten Island, City University New York; [[Lee Jussim]], Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Kent D. Harber, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark; Gautam Bhasin, Department of Counseling, Columbia Teacher's College, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009, Vol. 97, No. 2, 290–306 [http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/97/2/290.html psycnet.apa.org]</ref>

The 2011 ''Survey of American Attitudes Toward Jews in America'' released by the ADL found that the recent [[Late-2000s recession|world economic recession]] increased some antisemitic viewpoints among Americans. [[Abraham H. Foxman]], the organization's national director, argued, "It is disturbing that with all of the strides we have made in becoming a more tolerant society, antisemitic beliefs continue to hold a vice-grip on a small but not insubstantial segment of the American public." Specifically, the polling found that 19% of Americans answered "probably true" to the assertion that "Jews have too much control/influence on Wall Street" while 15% concurred with the related statement that Jews seem "more willing to use shady practices" in business. Nonetheless, the survey generally reported positive attitudes for most Americans, the majority of those who were surveyed expressed [[philo-Semitic]] sentiments such as 64% agreeing that Jews have contributed much to U.S. social culture.<ref name="adl-poll"/>

President [[Donald Trump]] declared himself to be a supporter of Israel and American Jews. Trump signed the [[Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism]].<ref>David N. Myers, "The Perils of Naming: On Donald Trump, Jews, and Antisemites," ''Journal of Holocaust Research'' (2021) 35:2, 154-162, DOI:10.1080/25785648.2021.1899511</ref> However, a 2019 survey by the Jewish Electorate Institute found that 73% of American Jews feel less secure since the [[election of Donald Trump]] to the presidency.  Since 2016, antisemitic attacks against synagogues have contributed to this fear. The 2019 survey found that combatting antisemitism is a priority issue in domestic politics among American Jews, including [[millennials]].<ref>[https://www.jewishelectorateinstitute.org/poll-domestic-issues-dominate-the-priorities-of-the-jewish-electorate/ "Poll: Domestic Issues Dominate The Priorities Of The Jewish Electorate."] ''Jewish Electorate Institute''. 22 May 2019. 22 May 2019.</ref>