Over the course of postwar America, there has been a march of progress in which institutional and societal prejudice against minority groups—from women to African Americans, and the LGBTQ community—lessens and opportunities open.

This too has been the case for the Jewish community. No longer are there covenants restricting where Jewish families can live or quotas blocking admission to universities. Jews have ascended to the very heights of academia, philanthropy, business, labor, entertainment, and politics.

Unfortunately, we are backsliding—not in accomplishments, but in acceptance.

Negative attitudes about Jews, and negative experiences for Jews, by every metric, are growing, not fading. And most troubling, antisemitism—for the first time—is growing among younger generations of Americans, portending a very different and dark future for the American Jewish community.

Since 1964, ADL has regularly conducted a comprehensive study of antisemitic attitudes. And time after time, we reliably found that antisemitism was stronger among older Americans and weaker among younger. This made intuitive sense as younger people would generally be more accepting, and as they aged, antisemitism would fade.

In ADL’s most recent survey, however, we found this trend has reversed. When asked the extent to which they agree with 11 different, classic anti-Jewish tropes, Millennials now led the way, harboring the most antisemitic views, with belief in 5.37 different tropes on average, followed by members of Gen Z at 5.01.........

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