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<DIV><BR>Poll: Anti-semitism Is Rising<BR><BR>Wednesday June 12, 2002 12:10
PM<BR><BR><A
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YORK (AP) - A new survey has found that 17 percent of Americans hold
``hardcore'' anti-Semitic views - a rise from four years ago - while another 35
percent fall into a ``middle'' category defined as faint prejudice against
Jews.<BR><BR>``The evidence suggests that a strong undercurrent of Jewish hatred
persists in America,'' said Abraham Foxman, national director of the
Anti-Defamation League, which released the survey Tuesday.<BR><BR>The findings
are based on an ``index of anti-Semitic beliefs'' used by researchers in four
previous surveys over the past 35 years. The survey measured bias by the number
of affirmative answers to 11 questions, including, ``Do you believe Jews have
too much power in the United States?''<BR><BR>In 1992, the same survey found
that 20 percent of Americans fell into the hardcore anti-Semitic category. That
had fallen to 12 percent in 1998.<BR><BR>The survey deemed 48 percent of the
country prejudice-free, down from 53 percent in 1998.<BR><BR>``We are greatly
concerned that many of the gains we had seen in building a tolerant and
accepting America have not taken hold as firmly as we had hoped and have, to
some degree, been reversed,'' Foxman said.<BR><BR>The national survey, conducted
from April 26 through May 6, polled 1,000 Americans over age 18. It has a margin
of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>