NEW YORK: A new international report has described 2025 as the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks in more than three decades, warning that anti-Jewish hatred has become an entrenched reality rather than a temporary surge.
The findings were released on Wednesday by the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, which examined antisemitic incidents in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Together, these countries are home to more than 90 per cent of the global Jewish population living outside Israel.
According to the report, 20 people were killed in antisemitic attacks across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States during 2025, making it the deadliest year for such violence in the Jewish diaspora since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which claimed 85 lives.
Among the deadliest incidents highlighted in the report was a mass shooting at a Hanukkah festival near Australia’s Bondi Beach in December 2025, where 15 people lost their lives.
In another attack, two worshippers were killed during an assault on a crowded synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, one of Judaism’s holiest days. Two separate attacks in the United States resulted in the deaths of three people.
The task force warned that antisemitism has become a persistent threat across the countries surveyed.
“Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal,” the organisation said in a statement, urging governments to move beyond reactive measures by increasing security funding, strengthening legislation and ensuring social media platforms enforce their own rules against hate speech.
The report documented more than 23,000 antisemitic incidents across the seven countries in 2025. By comparison, approximately 9,800 incidents were recorded in 2022, the year before Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, which triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.
READ ALSO: Australia Mourns in Candlelight for Bondi Beach Shooting Victims
Between 2022 and 2025, overall antisemitic incidents increased by 136 per cent, while violent incidents rose by 97 per cent, the report said.
Although the total number of reported incidents declined slightly compared with 2024, researchers noted that levels of antisemitism remain significantly higher than they were before the events of October 2023.
The report also identified anti-Zionism as a major motivating factor behind many incidents, accounting for 48 per cent of reported cases in the United Kingdom and 45 per cent in the United States.
In addition, the report drew attention to the situation in Ireland, which was not included in the seven-country study.
It noted that Ireland’s Jewish community, numbering around 2,200 people, reported 143 antisemitic incidents over a six-month period, underscoring concerns about rising hostility beyond the countries formally covered by the research.
