Antisemitic violence reached a grim milestone last year, with 2025 becoming the deadliest year for attacks on Jewish communities in more than three decades, according to a report released today by the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism.
The task force reviewed incidents in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States—countries that together account for more than 90% of the Jewish diaspora.
Across Australia, the UK and the US, 20 people were murdered in antisemitic attacks in 2025, which the report called “the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks in the diaspora … since the AMIA attack in Buenos Aires in 1994.”
The deadliest single incident came in December, when 15 people were killed in an antisemitic mass shooting at a Hanukkah festival near Australia’s Bondi Beach.
In the United Kingdom, an attack in October on a packed synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur left two people dead.
In the United States, two antisemitic attacks killed three people.
“Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal,” the J7 task force said in a statement.
“Governments must stop reacting after Jews are attacked and start acting before, with real security funding, stronger laws and social media platforms that enforce their own rules,” it said.
Beyond the killings, the report recorded more than 23,000 antisemitic incidents across the seven countries in 2025.
round 9,800 were recorded in 2022, the year before Hamas’ deadly October 7 attack on Israel.
Between 2022 and 2025, overall antisemitic incidents climbed by 136%, while violent incidents increased by 97%.
Although the total number of incidents declined from 2024 to 2025, the report said the level remains far above what was seen before 7 October.
The comparison point underscored in the report is the 1994 AMIA bombing in the Argentinian capital, which targeted a Jewish community centre and killed 85 people.
