Study: 2025 Deadliest Year for Antisemitic Fatalities in Decades

A new study from Tel Aviv University has revealed that 2025 marked the deadliest year for Jews in antisemitic attacks worldwide in more than three decades, with 20 fatalities recorded across four major incidents on three continents. The annual report, released on Monday ahead of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, attributes the surge to a persistent rise in antisemitic violence that began following the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, and Israel's subsequent war in Gaza.

The most devastating event occurred on December 14, 2025, when 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. In the United Kingdom, two individuals died on October 2, 2025, in an assault on a Manchester synagogue during Yom Kippur services. In the United States, two Israeli embassy employees were shot and killed on May 21, 2025, outside a reception at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. An additional death came on June 1, 2025, when an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor in Boulder, Colorado, succumbed to injuries from a Molotov cocktail thrown at a rally supporting Israeli hostages.

Compiled by the university's Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry...