American Public Opinion Polls: Opinion on Latino-Jewish Relations
How would you describe the relationship today between Hispanics and Jews in the United States today? Would you say the relationship is:
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| Excellent | 1.5% | 1.8% |
| Good | 29.0% | 34.1% |
| Fair | 44.6% | 39.6% |
| Poor | 8.7% | 6.8% |
| Not Sure | 16.1% | 17.7% |
Do you think there is anti-Semitism in the Latino community?
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| Yes | 35.3% | 30.5% |
| No | 42.9% | 26.5% |
| Not Sure | 21.8% | 43.0% |
Do you think there is anti-Latino sentiment in the Jewish community?
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| Yes | 36.1% | 20.3% |
| No | 35.1% | 53.3% |
| Not Sure | 28.8% | 25.9% |
How important is it for Hispanics and Jews to work together in order to strengthen the laws to prevent discrimination?
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| Very Important | 72.5% | 76.5% |
| Somewhat Important | 15.7% | 12.0% |
| Neither Important nor Unimportant | 5.6% | 3.2% |
| Somewhat Unimportant | 1.4% | 2.4% |
| Very Unimportant | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Not Sure | 4.0% | 4.8% |
Did the Catholic Church during the Holocaust do too much, enough, or not enough for Jews?
| Latino response | Jewish response | |
| Too much | 2.4% | 1.4% |
| Enough | 20.2% | 6.2% |
| Not enough | 49.2% | 74.9% |
| Not sure | 0.6% | 4.4% |
On a scale of 1-5, how would you rank your support of President Bush's faith based initiatives? A '5' means strongly support and a '1' means do not support at all.
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| 1- Do not support at all | 26.3% | 40.0% |
| 2 | 6.9% | 8.2% |
| 3 | 17.5% | 12.4% |
| 4 | 11.3% | 2.8% |
| 5- Strongly support | 28.4% | 10.2% |
| Not Sure | 19.6% | 26.5% |
Do you agree or disagree that there is a need for affirmative action? Would you say you strongly agree, somewhat agree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat disagree or strongly disagree that there is a need for affirmative action?
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| Strongly Agree | 39.1% | 28.3% |
| Somewhat Agree | 32.5% | 26.5% |
| Neither Agree nor Disagree | 7.5% | 11.2% |
| Somewhat Disagree | 7.5% | 12.7% |
| Strongly Disagree | 6.3% | 9.6% |
| Not Sure | 6.3% | 11.3% |
Would you say that the United States foreign policy is too supportive of the State of Israel, not supportive enough, or has the right level of support for the state of Israel?
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| Too Supportive | 20.6% | 8.2% |
| The Right Level of Support | 43.2% | 50.8% |
| Not Supportive Enough | 17.7% | 30.1% |
| Not Sure | 18.5% | 11.0% |
Would you say that United States foreign policy is too supportive of Latin American countries, not supportive enough, or has the right level of support for Latin American countries?
| Latino Response | Jewish Response | |
| Too Supportive | 10.5% | 7.0% |
| The Right Level of Support | 33.5% | 37.6% |
| Not Supportive Enough | 42.7% | 32.1% |
| Not Sure | 13.3% | 23.3% |
Do you think that our schools teach our children too much, not enough, or the right amount about the Holocaust?
| Latino Repsonse | Jewish Response | |
| Too Much | 1.4% | 2.0% |
| Not Enough | 65.9% | 55.0% |
| The Right Amount | 19.8% | 20.3% |
| Not Sure | 12.9% | 22.7% |
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