The percentage of U.S. adults who believe Jews and Muslims face a lot of discrimination has increased, according to a Pew Research Report released on April 2.
In three years, the number has jumped from 20% in 2021 to 40% today for Jews. Also, forty-four percent of Americans say there is a lot of discrimination against Muslims in society, up five percentage points (39% to 44%).
More than half of respondents (57%) say discrimination against Jews has increased since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. On the other hand, 19% say it has remained unchanged, with 3% saying it has decreased.
Likewise, 38% of those surveyed say discrimination against Muslims has increased since the war began. Thirty percent of U.S. adults see no change, while 5% say discrimination has decreased.
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of American Jews and 60% of American Muslims say they have felt offended by a news report or a social media post about the Israel-Hamas war.
“Relatively few Americans (8%) say they have stopped talking to someone in person, or unfollowed or blocked someone online, because of some comment that person made about the Israel-Hamas war,” the Pew Research Center reports. “But American Muslims (27%) and Jews (26%) are more likely than the other religious and demographic groups analyzed to say they have stopped talking to someone because of something that person said about the war. This is a relatively uncommon experience across most demographic groups, though 16% of American adults under 30 have stopped talking to someone because of comments about the war.”
Read the full report here.
Director of The Raceless Gospel Initiative, an associate editor, host of the Good Faith Media podcast, “The Raceless Gospel” and author of Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church.
