2025 Was the Deadliest Year for Jews Outside Israel Since 1994

By Joseph Marshall

Twenty Jews were murdered in anti-Jew attacks outside Israel in 2025, making it the deadliest year for diaspora Jewry in more than three decades, according to a new report tracking hatred against Jewish communities around the world.

The victims were killed in four separate attacks, including the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre in Australia, the attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, the murder of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington and the death of a victim injured in the Boulder, Colorado firebombing. It was the highest number of Jews murdered in targeted attacks outside Israel since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.

The J7 Annual Report on Antisemitism documented 23,174 anti-Jew incidents in 2025 across Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Those seven countries are home to more than 90 per cent of the Jewish population living outside Israel.

The overall number was down from the record 26,857 incidents documented in 2024. That decline, however, did not mean Jews were safer. The number of incidents remained more than double the levels recorded before the October 7 massacre, while the number of Jews murdered reached its highest point in 31 years.

Germany recorded 8,725 incidents, the highest number in the report, followed by the United States with 6,274 and the United Kingdom with 3,700. Australia recorded 1,654, France recorded 1,320, Canada recorded 788 and Argentina recorded 713.

The Canadian number comes from police reported hate crime statistics and represents incidents classified by police as confirmed or suspected hate crimes. Anti-Jew incidents accounted for approximately 71 per cent of all police reported religious hate crimes in Canada during 2025, despite Jews making up roughly one per cent of the country’s population.

Canada’s total was down from 943 incidents in 2024, but remained about 50 per cent higher than the 527 incidents recorded in 2022. B’nai Brith Canada recorded a very different number, documenting 6,800 anti-Jew incidents in 2025, including 573 in Quebec. B’nai Brith uses a broader reporting system that includes online hatred, harassment, threats and incidents that may never be reported to police.

The gap between 788 and 6,800 shows how much anti-Jew hatred never reaches official crime statistics. A Jewish student harassed on campus, a family threatened on the street, a synagogue targeted online or a Jewish business singled out during a protest may never become a police file. It still happened.

The report found that 88 per cent of Canadian Jews feel less safe than they did five years ago, while 58 per cent believe the situation will continue to get worse.

The increase since 2021 was recorded across every country included in the report. Incidents rose 270 per cent in Australia, 215 per cent in Germany, 131 per cent in the United States, 124 per cent in France, 64 per cent in the United Kingdom, 60 per cent in Canada and 46 per cent in Argentina.

The report points to several sources of the hatred, including Islamist extremism, the far right and radical anti-Israel movements that increasingly direct their anger at Jews, Jewish schools, synagogues and businesses.

In Britain, nearly half of all incidents involved anti-Zionist language or motivation. In the United States, the number of incidents dropped by 33 per cent from 2024, largely because of a decline in campus incidents, but the country still recorded its third-highest annual total since tracking began in 1979.

The figures are collected differently in each country, but the central finding is not open to interpretation. Twenty Jews were murdered in four anti-Jew attacks outside Israel in a single year. That has not happened since 1994.

Governments may point to a decline in the overall number of incidents and claim progress. Jewish communities are still guarding their schools, locking their synagogues and paying for security simply to gather in public.

The number of reported incidents fell in 2025. The danger facing Jews did not.