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Anti-Semitism Tops American Jewish Concerns in Latest Survey
posted on October 24, 2019Religion News Service’s Yonat Shimron reports that a new American Jewish Committee poll finds that 88 percent of American Jews “say anti-Semitism is a problem.” Eighty-nine percent blame “extreme right-wing activists,” 85 percent blame Islamic extremists, and 64 percent blame “extreme left-wing political actors.” Dov Waxman, a professor at Northeastern University, says, “This concern has rocketed to the top of the American Jewish agenda. It’s becoming the biggest concern for American Jews today.”