2025 Deadliest Year for Antisemitic Violence Outside Israel

A new report released on July 29, 2026, has found that 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic violence against Jewish communities outside Israel in more than three decades. According to the second annual J7 Report on Antisemitism, 20 people were killed in attacks across seven major diaspora countries last year, the highest annual death toll since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

The report, compiled by the J7 Large Communities Task Force Against Antisemitism, documents more than 23,000 antisemitic incidents in 2025 across Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These nations are home to over 90 percent of the Jewish population outside Israel. The total number of incidents across the seven countries was 136 percent higher than in 2022, the year before the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, while violent incidents increased by 97 percent over the same period.

The 20 fatalities in 2025 included 15 people killed at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, two killed in an attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, two killed at the Capital Jewish Museum in...