A stark new report has found that 2025 marked the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks around the world since 1994.
The findings come from the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, which published its second annual report examining antisemitic hatred in the seven countries outside Israel that are home to more than 90% of the world’s Jewish population. The report said 20 people were killed in antisemitic attacks in 2025, with every fatal incident occurring in J7 nations.
The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, is one of two groups representing the Jewish diaspora in the United States within the J7 framework, which also includes counterpart organizations from Australia, Canada, Argentina, the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France.
Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 14, 2025. (Mark Baker/AP Photo)
Aykan Erdemir, the ADL’s senior director of global research and diplomatic affairs, told INC News that the report underscores the urgency of confronting antisemitism before it spreads further.
“This isn’t a warning sign anymore, it’s already happening,” Erdemir said. “If governments let antisemitism take root and perpetrators walk free, the violence won’t stop with Jewish communities. History shows Jews are the canary in the coal mine: when hatred against Jews rises unchecked, it’s an early warning that everyone’s safety and rights are at risk.”
According to the J7 report, more than 23,000 antisemitic incidents were recorded across J7 countries in 2025. That figure reflected a 97% rise in violent incidents and a 136% increase in overall antisemitic incidents compared with 2022.
The report also pointed to the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, as a turning point that fueled a sharp global surge in antisemitic hate.
Firefighters are seen tackling a blaze at Highfield Road in the Golders Green neighborhood of London, following an arson attack on four charity ambulances belonging to the Jewish Community volunteer Ambulance Service. (PA/PA Images via Getty Images)
According to the report, each of the countries face an environment where antisemitism is “no longer confined to the fringes.” Countries are witnessing anti-Zionism associated with the conflict in Gaza becoming “a vehicle for antisemitic expression” and educational institutions becoming an “acute flashpoint” for hatred. Combined with growing online extremism, Jewish people “across the globe report hiding their Jewish identity in public” and questioning “whether they have a future in their home countries.”
Individually, the report shows how countries face their own unique challenges in quashing hatred.
A member of the public leaves the scene with her child, who is covered in an emergency blanket, after a terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. Two terrorists dressed in black fired several shots at Sydney’s world-famous Bondi Beach, that led to the deaths of 15 people and many others injured. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)
Australia, which has seen a 270% increase in antisemitic incidents since 2021, was home to the Bondi Beach terror attack in December 2025, during which 15 people were killed. The report says that both Islamist and left-wing extremist threats in the country “need to be prioritized, and dealt with effectively.”
In Germany, a 215% increase in antisemitic incidents has been coupled with the highest per capita rate of incidents, with 69.8 incidents per 1,000 Jewish residents in 2025 for a total of 8,725 incidents.
Antisemitic hate on display at an anti-Israel protest in London. Antisemitism in the U.K. is hitting record levels since the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7. (Campaign Against Antisemitism on X)
The report said that normalization of hate “remains the most pressing challenge” in Germany, with the rise in incidents attributed to the “confluence of far-right ethno-nationalism, left-wing anti-Zionism, and Islamist extremism simultaneously.”
In Canada, which has experienced a 60% rise in antisemitic incidents since 2021, there is a concern that “foreign state interference” is at play, in addition to “the exploitation of domestic institutions by extremist networks.”
Temple Emanu-El in Toronto, Canada was shot at on March 3, 2026. No injuries were reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
The U.S. has had a 131% increase in antisemitic incidents since 2021. Though antisemitic incidents declined significantly from 2024, the 6,274 antisemitic incidents tracked in 2025 included 300 reports of physical assault.
France has witnessed a rise in antisemitic incidents of 124% since 2021. The report notes that there is “a growing climate of discrimination” where Jews in France report being refused service, denied contracts and excluded from events.
In the U.K., which has experienced a 64% increase in antisemitic incidents since 2021, 48% of 3,700 antisemitic incidents were motivated by anti-Zionism, and 53% included references to the conflict involving Gaza.
London, UK, Dec 9 2023, anti-Israel protesters hold a banner saying “From the river to the sea.” (Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Though the government in Argentina is pro-Israel, the country “has generated conspiratorial antisemitic backlash from the left and from fringe nationalist movements,” the report said. Since 2021, Argentina has seen a 46% increase in antisemitic incidents.
The J7 report also added a special chapter on antisemitism in Ireland, which is not a J7 country. While Ireland has only a 2,200-person Jewish community, it has reported 143 incidents of antisemitism. Despite antisemitism in Ireland taking hold “primarily in everyday settings,” unlike J7 countries, Ireland has no national plan for combating antisemitism and no security funding for the Jewish population.
An FBI team is investigating an attack on demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, at the scene on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, on June 1, 2025. (ELI IMADALI/AFP via Getty Images)
Erdemir said that “the most urgent priority for every government should be protecting Jewish communities and institutions before they’re attacked, not after.” He called on law enforcement to “hold perpetrators fully accountable,” but said that “the real goal has to be stopping attacks before they happen and preventing Jews from being driven out of public spaces, not just responding once the damage is done.”
Erdemir said, “Governments can’t rely on security alone. It takes a whole-of-society effort, government, business, schools, civil society and everyday citizens, to root out the hate targeting Jewish communities worldwide. And because this hate crosses borders, so must the response: governments, international bodies and NGOs around the world need to work together, not in isolation.”
