{"id":366330,"date":"2026-10-06T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366330\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:10:10","slug":"more-than-half-of-jewish-new-yorkers-fear-for-their-safety-after-oct-7-attacks-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366330\/","title":{"rendered":"More than half of Jewish New Yorkers fear for their safety after Oct. 7 attacks: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than half of Jewish voters in the city fear for their safety<\/a>, while an eye-popping 42% say they\u2019ve been verbally harassed, according to a stunning new poll.<\/p>\n

The Honan Strategy Group\u2019s new survey comes three years after the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and amid soaring antisemitism in the Big Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFifty one percent of Jewish voters say Jewish New Yorkers are unsafe today, compared with 38% of non-Jewish voters,\u201d Honan Strategy Group CEO Bradley Honan said. \u201cFifty five percent of Jewish voters say it has gotten worse since October 7th.\u201d<\/p>\n

A demonstrator displays a swastika on their phone during a pro-Palestinian rally arranged by the Democratic Socialists of America in Times Square, Sunday, October 8, 2023, in New York. Stuart Meissner<\/p>\n

Just 47% of Jewish voters polled said they felt safe, with the remaining 2% giving no answer, according to the findings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf of Jews saying they feel unsafe is an alarming figure. The Jewish people are intertwined with the culture and history of New York City,\u201d Honan said.<\/p>\n

Similarly, 42% of respondents said they\u2019ve been verbally harassed because they were Jewish, compared to 58% who said they had not been, the new poll found.<\/p>\n

Jewish New Yorkers said they\u2019re changing their daily routines<\/a> in the years since the terror attacks as anti-Israel sentiment soars in backlash to the Jewish State\u2019s military action in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In this image from video provided by South First Responders, a man holding a weapon grabs another man next to a car during an attack by Hamas militants at the Tribe of Nova Trance music festival near Kibbutz Re\u2019im in southern Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. AP<\/p>\n

A startling 59% of Jewish voters say it is unsafe for them at public protests \u2014 double the percentage of\u00a0 non-Jewish voters, the poll found.<\/p>\n

Half of those polled also saig it is unsafe to wear a kippah or Star of David.<\/p>\n

The survey found that 40% of Jewish voters believe college campuses are unsafe for Jews, while 57% said they were safe.<\/p>\n

Pro-Palestine protesters rally and march to commemorate the 78th anniversary of Nakba Day, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The Nakba, meaning \u2018catastrophe\u2019 in Arabic, is marked every year by Palestinians on May 15 to remember the expulsion of hundreds of thousands from their homes and land in 1948 after the founding of Israel. Michael Nigro<\/p>\n

Shockingly, one in four Jews said they hid their Jewish identity online or at work, while 36% have stopped wearing Jewish symbols, according to the findings.<\/p>\n

One in three Jewish voters said they witnessed or personally experienced an antisemitic
incident in the five boroughs in the past year, nearly triple the 12% rate of non-Jewish voters, according to Honan.<\/p>\n

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The Honan Strategy Group 5 Borough Barometer surveyed 1,167 likely city voters via text from\u00a0 Oct. 2-6. The overall poll has a margin of error of 2.97 percentage points.<\/p>\n

It included an oversample of 503 Jewish voters, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.36 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than half of Jewish voters in the city fear for their safety, while an eye-popping 42% say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,59,60,57,9,24,55,54,56,4648,58],"class_list":["post-366330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-protests","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}