Of these 42 incidents, three involved “face-to-face taunting and celebration of the attack to Jewish people”, and 39 took place online. These included antisemitic social media posts referencing the attack, abusive responses to public condemnations of the attack from Jewish organisations and individuals, or antagonistic emails sent to Jewish people and institutions.
The killings in Manchester were the first fatal antisemitic terror attack in the UK since the CST began recording incidents in 1984.
According to the CST report, there were 3,700 anti-Jewish hate incidents recorded in 2025, up 4% from 3,556 in 2024. Last year saw the second highest annual total ever, second only to 2023 when there were 4,298.
The total for 2023 included 416 incidents in the week following Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel – a larger number than any subsequent week.
Though 2023 saw the highest total number of incidents, last year was the first time more than 200 cases of anti-Jewish hate were recorded in every calendar month.
Last year also saw the highest ever recorded number of cases of damage and desecration to Jewish property – including damage to the homes and vehicles of Jewish people and to synagogues.
There were 217 such incidents in 2025, up 38% from 157 in 2024.
CST chief executive Mark Gardner described the attack in Manchester as the culmination of “two years of intense anti-Jewish hatred”.
He said: “The terror attack then triggered even more antisemitism, showing the depths of extremism faced by Jews and all our British society.”
Chief Constable Mark Hobrough, the national policing lead for hate crime, said 2025 had seen “unacceptably high” levels of antisemitic hate.
He added: “The tensions that exist in our society have not abated and are both deeper and more long-standing than anything we have experienced in modern times.”
The CST said there was also a spike in reports on the day of the Bondi Beach killings in Sydney in December, and on the two following days.
Of the 50 incidents across those three days, just under half (21) directly referenced the Bondi attack, the CST said.