On Sydney’s Bondi Beach last December, two gunmen opened fire on Jews gathered for the first night of Hanukkah, killing 15 and wounding more than 40. It was no random, isolated incident, an alarming new report says.
The year 2025 was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks since 1994 in the seven nations outside Israel that are home to the most Jews, according to the second annual report of the J7 Largest Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism. Twenty Jews in total were killed in Australia, Canada, Argentina, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.
Three of those murders occurred in the United States: Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, staff members of the Israeli Embassy, were shot to death at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May. Karen Diamond, an 82-year-old grandmother in Boulder, Colo., died in June after being attacked during a march supporting the Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
Beyond the fatalities, the report details what it calls the “alarming landscape of hatred and violence” against Jews.
“Between 2021 and 2025, the J7 countries recorded a combined total of more than 91,000 antisemitic incidents. In 2025 alone, Germany recorded 8,725 incidents, the United States 6,274, the United Kingdom 3,700, Australia 1,654, France 1,320, Canada 788, and Argentina 713.” And the number of incidents, particularly violent ones, is showing a “clear rise.”
From 2021 to 2025, antisemitic incidents increased by 46% in Argentina, 60% in Canada, 64% in the United Kingdom, 124% in France, 131% in the United States, 215% in Germany, and 270% in Australia.
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Germany has the highest per capita rate of attacks, rising from 23.50 incidents per 1,000 Jewish residents to 69.80 incidents in 2025.
What Is Behind the Rise?
The report catalogues five trends behind the rise in antisemitic attacks:
• Normalization of antisemitism in mainstream spaces.
• Instrumentalization of anti-Zionism as a vehicle for antisemitic expression.
• Campuses and educational institutions as an acute flashpoint.
• The digital sphere becoming the primary arena of antisemitic expression.
• Growing Jewish concern for personal and communal safety.
“From Argentina to Australia, Jewish people across the globe report hiding their Jewish identity in public and questioning whether they have a future in their home countries,” the study determined.
In the United States, 52% of American Jews say they’ve grown concerned about their personal safety.
Antisemitic Attacks in the United States
The number of antisemitic attacks actually decreased in 2025 in the United States, though the year’s tally remained the third-highest since tracking began in 1979.
The year 2024 saw a record 9,354 incidents. That dropped by 33% in 2025, but the report warns that “totals remain five times higher than a decade ago and more than double the 2020‑2022 daily average. Physical assaults are the one category still rising, with deadly‑weapon incidents increasing from 23 in 2024 to 32 in 2025.”
The report attributes last year’s drop to a “winding down of anti-Israel campus encampment activity.” Since entering office in January 2025, the Trump administration has made fighting campus antisemitism a priority, to the point of issuing executive orders, suing schools and threatening to cut their federal funding if they won’t get a handle on campus antisemitism.
However, the report notes that dangerous clouds loom ahead because of the “normalization of antisemitic expressions.” This is seen most notably in the rise of the openly hostile Democratic Socialists of America, and the Democratic Party’s growing push to forsake Israel.
For example, Maine primary voters selected as their U.S. Senate nominee a man with a notorious Nazi tattoo over his chest. A Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan remained silent on the death of Iran’s murderous Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for fear of upsetting his base.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has openly warned of the growing antisemitism in his party. That same Michigan candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, called on Fetterman to be primaried and expressed the need for his wing of the party to put an “ogre on a pike.”
“No Wasting Time”: The Need to Be Proactive
“Increasing political polarization, shifting public attitudes toward Israel, and normalization of antisemitic expressions continue to undermine the whole‑of‑society approach needed to confront antisemitism effectively,” the J7 report states.
The authors say nations must be proactive in fighting the rise of violent antisemitic attacks. They “urge governments and law enforcement agencies to take immediate and preemptive action to secure the safety of Jewish communities and institutions in order to prevent attacks rather than just reacting to them.”
There’s “no wasting time” in combating anti-Jewish hate, ADL Senior Director of Global Research and Diplomatic Affairs Aykan Erdemir told Fox News Digital.
“If governments let antisemitism take root and perpetrators walk free, the violence won’t stop with Jewish communities,” Erdemir said. “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.”
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