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A shocking new report says 2025 was set to be the deadliest year for anti-Semitic attacks worldwide since 1994.
The J7 Large Communities Task Force Against Antisemitism released its second annual report, which tracks anti-Semitism in seven countries outside Israel, where more than 90% of Jews live. According to the report, 20 people were killed in anti-Semitic attacks in 2025. All fatal attacks occurred in J7 countries.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is one of two organizations representing the Jewish diaspora in the US in the J7, which includes similar organizations in Australia, Canada, Argentina, the US, the UK, Germany and France.
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Police cordon off an area of Bondi Beach following a terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia on December 14, 2025. (Mark Baker/AP Photo)
Aykan Erdemir, ADL’s senior director of global research and diplomatic affairs, told Fox News Digital that the report’s findings show there is “no time to waste” in combating hate.
“This is no longer a warning sign, this is already happening,” Erdemir said. “If governments allow anti-Semitism to take root and let perpetrators go free, violence against Jewish communities will not stop. History shows that Jews are worthless in a coal mine: When hatred against Jews grows unchecked, it is an early warning that everyone’s safety and rights are at risk.”
The J7 report finds that more than 23,000 anti-Semitic incidents occurred in J7 countries throughout 2025 – this represents a 97% increase in violent incidents and a 136% increase in total anti-Semitic incidents since 2022.
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Firefighters are seen tackling a blaze on 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, every country is facing an environment where anti-Semitism is “no longer confined to the margins.” The country is seeing anti-Semitism linked to the conflict in Gaza becoming a “medium for anti-Semitism” and educational institutions becoming “intense flashpoints” for hatred. With increasing online extremism, Jewish people “worldwide report publicly hiding their Jewish identity” and question “whether they have any future in their home countries.”
Individually, the report shows how countries face their own unique challenges in ending hate.
A member of the public walks away from the scene with her child, who was covered in an emergency blanket, after the terrorist attack at the Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on December 14, 2025. Two terrorists dressed in black opened fire on Sydney’s world famous Bondi Beach, killing 15 people and injuring many others. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)
Australia, which has seen a 270% increase in anti-Semitic incidents since 2021, was home to the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in December 2025, during which 15 people were killed. The report said both Islamist and left-wing extremist threats in the country “need to be prioritized and addressed effectively.”
In Germany, a 215% increase in anti-Semitic incidents has been associated with the highest per capita rate of incidents, with a total of 8,725 incidents in 2025, with 69.8 incidents per 1,000 Jewish inhabitants.
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The report said that normalizing hate in Germany “remains the biggest challenge”, adding that the increase in incidents is due to “the confluence of far-right ethno-nationalism, left-wing anti-Semitism and Islamist extremism”.
In Canada, which has experienced a 60% increase in anti-Semitic incidents since 2021, there are concerns that in addition to “the exploitation of domestic institutions by extremist networks”, there is also “foreign state interference” at play.
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A shooting at Temple Emanu-El in Toronto, Canada, on March 3, 2026. There is no report of anyone being injured. (Nick LaChance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
Anti-Semitic incidents have increased by 131% in the US since 2021. Although anti-Semitic incidents declined significantly from 2024, the 6,274 anti-Semitic incidents tracked in 2025 included 300 reports of physical assault.
France has seen a 124% increase in anti-Semitic incidents since 2021. The report said there was a “growing climate of discrimination” where Jews in France were refused services, refused contracts and excluded from events.
In the UK, where anti-Semitic incidents have increased by 64% since 2021, 48% of 3,700 anti-Semitic incidents were motivated by anti-Semitism, and 53% included references to the Gaza-related conflict.
London, UK, December 9, 2023 Anti-Israel protesters hold a banner that reads “From the river to the sea..” Andy Solomon/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (Andy Solomon/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The report said that although the government in Argentina is pro-Israel, the country has “generated conspiratorial anti-Semitic backlash from leftist and fringe nationalist movements.” Since 2021, Argentina has seen a 46% increase in anti-Semitic incidents.
The J7 report also adds a special chapter on anti-Semitism in Ireland, which is not a J7 country. While Ireland has a Jewish community of only 2,200 individuals, it has reported 143 incidents of anti-Semitism. Despite anti-Semitism being prevalent in Ireland “mainly in everyday settings”, unlike the J7 countries, Ireland has no national plan to combat anti-Semitism and no protection fund for its Jewish population.
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An FBI team at the scene on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, June 1, 2025, investigating an attack on protesters demanding the release of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza. On June 1, several people were burned and suffered other injuries in the US state of Colorado in what the FBI called a “targeted terrorist attack” against protesters demanding the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Boulder City police said one person was taken into custody. They were more cautious in speculating about a possible motive for the attack, which several sources said was carried out against members of the Jewish community during a peaceful gathering. (ELI IMADALI/AFP via Getty Images)
Erdemir said that “the most urgent priority for every government must be to protect Jewish communities and institutions before they are attacked, not after.” He called on law enforcement to “hold the perpetrators fully accountable”, but said that “the real goal is to prevent attacks before they happen and prevent Jews from being driven out of public spaces, not just react after the damage has been done.”
Erdemir said, “Governments cannot rely on security alone. Rooting out hate targeting Jewish communities around the world requires a whole-of-society effort, including governments, businesses, schools, civil society and everyday citizens. 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.”
