Assaults Against Jews Rose In 2025, Harassment Remains High: Report
AFP
Jews faced the third highest year of harassment and violence in 2025, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which began tracking such data in 1979.
The number of incidents fell from the previous two years; however, 2023 and 2024 were the worst years on record for such incidents.
In fact, 2024 was the worst year on record, with 9,354 incidents tracked by the ADL. That figure did fall in 2025 to 6,247. In 2023, there were 8,873 incidents.
ADL
“While incidents of harassment and vandalism decreased significantly in 2025 from record highs in 2023 and 2024, physical assaults this past year were higher than ever before. In 2025, there was an average of 17 incidents per day, compared to an average of eight incidents per day between 2020 and 2022,” the ADL stated.
The ADL data states that there were 4,003 incidents of harassment, 2,068 incidents of vandalism, and 203 assaults in 2025. Most of the decrease between 2024 and 2025 occurred in the harassment category. Assaults motivated by antisemitism actually rose in from 196 in 2024 to 203 in 2025.
“A shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.; an attack with Molotov cocktails at a Run for Their Lives event in Colorado; a firebombing of Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence in Pennsylvania while the first family was inside; a stabbing of a Jewish man on the streets of New York—these events represent four out of 32 antisemitic assaults involving a deadly weapon in 2025, up from 23 such incidents in 2024,” the ADL report states.
Most of the incidents occurred in a public location or at a Jewish institution. Incidents at universities and on college campuses fell. The report noted that the decline was largely driven by the end of most of the college encampments set up in response to the war in Gaza.
