New York, United States
 – Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States were down in 2025 compared to a year earlier, but physical assaults reached “record high levels,” an annual report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Wednesday.
In 2025, 6,274 assaults, acts of harassment, and vandalism were recorded — an average of 17 per day — compared with 9,354 in 2024 and 8,873 in 2023. But the ADL, a New York-based anti-Semitism watchdog, voiced concern at a surge in violent incidents.
Last year, two Israeli embassy employees were shot dead in Washington, and a woman died after a firebombing attack at a protest for Israeli hostages in Colorado.
Those were the first deaths linked to anti-Semitic attacks in the United States since 2022, according to the ADL. The number of physical assaults rose from 196 to 203, “reaching record high levels,” according to the ADL. Among these incidents, 32 involved a lethal weapon, compared with 23 in 2024.
“Our 2025 Audit, which shows it was one of the most violent years for American Jews on record, is a reminder of how dramatically the threat landscape has shifted,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the nonprofit’s CEO and director. The states with the highest number of incidents were New York (1,160), California (817), and New Jersey (687), all of which have sizeable Jewish populations.
The ADL reported a drop in anti-Semitic incidents at US colleges and universities, which it said was due to interventions by campus leaders. In public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, the number of incidents was relatively stable at 825, compared with 860 in 2024.
Rallies “featuring extreme anti-Israel rhetoric that crossed the line into anti-Semitism” were down 67 percent overall, the ADL said. So far in 2026, a truck ramming attack has targeted a synagogue in the Detroit suburbs, and an arson attack has destroyed large parts of a synagogue in Mississippi.
