The large scale of our data collection allows us to analyze small slices of the population. Given the prominence of anti-semitism as an issue, especially in higher education, we briefly examine Jewish public opinion, both regarding anti-semitism on campus, and regarding higher education, science, etc. This is drawn from the most recent wave of our survey, collected from April 2025 to June 2025. 

We begin by noting that our survey suggests that Donald Trump did relatively well with Jewish respondents in the 2024 election, by contemporary electoral standards, receiving, in our estimate, 35% of the Jewish vote (versus 50% of the non-Jewish vote). This is very similar to the Fox/NORC survey estimate of 33% (notably this is a non-partisan poll overseen by NORC/AP).

We asked about Trump's high profile efforts aimed at Columbia University and Harvard Universities, for their alleged failures to address anti-semitism. Jewish respondents were far more likely to have heard of these efforts (73% had heard about measures aimed at Columbia and 70% Harvard, versus 47% and 56% for non-Jews). They were also more polarized than non-Jews regarding these efforts. When asked about whether they agreed or disagreed with these efforts, for Columbia, Jewish respondents were both more likely to strongly agree with the administration’s efforts (25% strongly agreeing among Jewish respondents versus 19% for non-Jewish), and more likely to strongly disagree (34% for Jewish respondents versus 27% for non-Jewish). 

Jewish respondents expressed about the same likelihood as non-Jewish to strongly disagree with administration efforts with respect to Harvard (28% for both), but were more likely to strongly agree (24% versus 19%). These efforts thus have polarized the Jewish community relative to others.

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There was more skepticism about the authenticity of Trump efforts aimed at campus antisemitism, especially among Jewish respondents, with 57% of Jewish respondents agreeing with the statement “The Trump administration is using existing laws about antisemitism as a pretext to target and punish universities and colleges” as compared to only 40% of non-Jewish respondents.

In terms of broader attitudes regarding science, we note that Jewish respondents are generally more trusting and supportive of science than non-Jewish respondents. 

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Jewish respondents were more supportive of increased investments in science, with 57% supportive of more US government investments in science (i.e., increasing investment in 2025 relative to investment in 2024). Only  10% supported cuts. For non-Jewish respondents, the comparable numbers were 42% and 16%. Similarly, 68% of Jewish respondents supported higher investments in medical research (versus 8% supporting cuts), versus 57% and 10%, respectively, for non Jewish respondents. 

We also asked questions regarding approval of various Trump policies with respect that have affected funding of science, as well as production/provision of scientific information. 

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Notes regarding methods. We note the intrinsic challenge of measuring a small minority, where even defining the category is tricky (can someone be an atheist and Jewish?).

We defined “Jewish” respondents as individuals who choose Jewish as their religious denomination in a general question about religious denomination, or who answered yes when asked “Do you consider yourself to be Jewish?” and report “Atheist”, “Agnostic” or no religious denomination. Therefore, we exclude respondents who self-identify as Jewish but report a religious denomination other than Jewish (such as Catholicism, for example). 

We weighted our Jewish sample based on age, education, region, race, gender, and whether the respondent reported Jewish religion or not (religious and non-religious jews) We use Pew’s report on Jewish Americans to obtain population reference values for weighting for each of these variables. The non-Jewish sample is weighted using our standard weighting scheme (interlocked race-age-gender, interlocked education-age, region, and urbanicity).

Full comparisons between Jewish and non-Jewish respondents on a longer list of (fully provided) questions is available here. 

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