{"id":7769,"date":"2024-04-02T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:20:00","slug":"how-us-jews-are-experiencing-the-israel-hamas-war","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/04\/02\/how-us-jews-are-experiencing-the-israel-hamas-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How U.S. Jews are experiencing the Israel-Hamas war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A person cries during a prayer service and candlelight vigil for Israel at Temple Emanu-El in New York City on Oct. 9, 2023. (Adam Gray\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Related: <\/em><\/strong>How U.S. Muslims are experiencing the Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Jews report feeling a host of emotions \u2013 including sadness, anger, exhaustion and fear<\/a> \u2013 in reaction to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing Israeli invasion of Gaza. Nine-in-ten say they think discrimination against Jews has risen in the United States since the Israel-Hamas war began. And three-quarters say they have felt personally offended by something they\u2019ve seen in the news or on social media about the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not all Jewish Americans are experiencing the conflict the same way. The survey, conducted Feb. 13-25, finds that younger and older Jews often view the war differently, mirroring patterns in the broader U.S. public. In both groups, younger adults tend to express much more negative attitudes<\/a> toward Israel than older Americans do. U.S. Jews also differ by age<\/a> when it comes to the level of connection they feel with Israel, as we found in our 2020 survey of Jewish Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>