{"id":389628,"date":"2026-04-13T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389628\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:13:12","slug":"2025-toll-of-diaspora-jews-killed-in-antisemitic-attacks-was-highest-in-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389628\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 toll of Diaspora Jews killed in antisemitic attacks was highest in three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year 2025 saw an alarming surge in violent attacks against Jews in a year when more Diaspora Jews were murdered in antisemitic incidents than in any other year in the previous three decades, a report<\/a> published Monday by Tel Aviv University said.<\/p>\n

While total counts of antisemitic activity, including vandalism, verbal threats, and harassment, fell in many countries during 2025 compared to 2024, violent incidents, such as beatings or stone-throwing, became more commonplace, according to the annual report on antisemitism in the world published by TAU\u2019s Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and the Irwin Cotler Institute for Democracy, Human Rights and Justice.<\/p>\n

In every Western country, the total number of antisemitic incidents remained dozens of percentage points higher than in 2022, the year preceding the October 7, 2023, massacre that sparked the war in Gaza, the report noted.<\/p>\n

Twenty Jews were murdered in four incidents across three continents during the year as Jew hatred became a \u201cnormalized reality,\u201d said Prof. Uriya Shavit, the study\u2019s editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n

The last year that more Jews were killed in the diaspora was 1994, when a suicide bomber drove a bomb-laden van into the Asociaci\u00f3n Mutual Israelita Argentina building in Argentina, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more.<\/p>\n

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Australia and Canada saw their highest yearly numbers of antisemitic incidents ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe steep increase in the number of cases of severe violence is not surprising,\u201d Shavit said. \u201cThe rule that applies to all types of crime applies here as well: when law-enforcement authorities are indifferent to small crimes, the result is big crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of the reason it is so difficult to prevent antisemitic attacks is that many antisemitic attacks are carried out by \u201clone wolf\u201d attackers who are not operating within any organizational framework, a separate study published alongside the report found.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tA man affixes a bouquet of flowers to a makeshift memorial for victims of an attack on a pro-Israel march outside of the Boulder County courthouse, June 3, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/p>\n

The TAU report is based on data originating from dozens of law-enforcement authorities around the world, as well as specialized commissions, Jewish communities, reports in the media, and interviews and fieldwork by the researchers, it said.<\/p>\n

Increasing violence<\/p>\n

Australia had some of the most alarming data, the report found, with a total of 1,750 attacks during 2025, compared to 1,727 in 2024, culminating in the Hanukkah massacre at Bondi Beach<\/a> in which 15 Jews were murdered. This compares with 1,200 incidents in 2023 and 472 in 2022. Attacks continued to rise even after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in October: There were 588 incidents recorded in October\u2013December 2025, compared to 492 in the same period of 2024, the study said.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tThe victims of the December 14, 2025, Sydney Hanukkah terror shooting: top row (left to right) \u2013 Reuven Morrison, Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, Dan Elkayam, Alex Kleytman, Rabbi Eli Schlanger; middle row (left to right) \u2013 Edith Brutman, Peter Meagher, Tibor Weitzen, Marika Pogany, Matilda [last name withheld]; bottom row (left to right) \u2013 Tania Tretiak, Boris Tetleroyd, Adam Smyth, Sofia and Boris Gurman. (Composite: Times of Israel; Images: Courtesy\/social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
\n\tIn Canada, the total number of incidents grew from 6,219 in 2024 to 6,800 in 2025, more than three times the number in 2022. The year\u2019s most serious physical assaults included the August 27 stabbing<\/a> of a Jewish woman in her seventies while she was shopping at an Ottawa grocery store, and the August 8 beating<\/a> of a 32-year-old Hasidic Jewish father in front of his children in a park in Montreal. There were also numerous attacks on synagogues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the United States, reported incidents varied across regions. In New York, the largest Jewish city in the world, the number of incidents declined from 344 in 2024 to 324 in 2025. Los Angeles, home to the country\u2019s second-largest Jewish population, was the only major city in the US unable to produce data on anti-Jewish hate crimes for the second straight year. The worst attacks of the year included the May 21, 2025, killing of two Israeli Embassy staff members<\/a>, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, and the killing<\/a> of Karen Diamond on June 1 in Boulder, Colorado, after a man shouting \u201cFree Palestine\u201d threw incendiary devices at participants in a pro-Israel march.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tYaron Lischinsky, right, and his partner Sarah Milgrim, both employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US who were killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy in Washington)<\/p>\n

In Britain, the total number of incidents increased from 3,556 in 2024 to 3,700 in 2025, compared with 4,298 in 2023 and 1,662 in 2022. Four incidents of extreme violence were recorded during the year, the most grievous being the October 2025 terror attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue<\/a> in Manchester on Yom Kippur in which two people were killed. As in Australia, a rise in incidents was recorded post-ceasefire, from 741 in October-December 2024 to 1,078 in the parallel period of 2025.<\/p>\n

In France, the country with the third-largest Jewish population after Israel and the United States, the total number of incidents declined from 1,570 in 2024 to 1,320 in 2025. However, the number of incidents involving physical violence rose from 106 in 2024 to 126 in 2025.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tRabbi Daniel Walker (3L) stands among armed police officers as they talk with members of the Jewish community outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following a deadly terrorist attack at the synagogue. (Paul Currie \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

In Germany, 5,729 antisemitic incidents were reported in 2025, compared with 6,560 in 2024. In Belgium, the number of incidents increased from 129 in 2024 to 232 in 2025, and the number of physical assaults increased from 27 to 32.<\/p>\n

Data from smaller Jewish communities showed complex trends as well, the report found. In Mexico, 70 incidents were recorded in 2025 compared with 53 in 2024. In South Africa, 95 incidents were recorded in 2025 compared with 128 in 2024. In Italy, 963 incidents were recorded in 2025 compared with 877 in 2024, including 11 cases of physical assault compared with eight, respectively. In Chile, 27 incidents were recorded compared with 51. In Spain, 207 incidents were recorded compared with 193. In New Zealand, there were 143 incidents in 2025 compared with 131 in 2024, of which five were physical assaults compared with two, respectively. In Bulgaria, 55 incidents were recorded compared with 50 the previous year.<\/p>\n

Individual extremist attackers<\/p>\n

A separate study analyzing dozens of indictments and court rulings shows that many attacks are carried out by \u201clone wolves\u201d who come mainly from two entirely different political extremes \u2013 white Christians devoted to \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d on the one hand, and anti-Zionist Muslims on the other.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tThis screen grab made from UGC handout video footage courtesy of Timothy Brant-Coles shows two gunmen dressed in black firing multiple shots on a bridge at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025, in an attack on a Hanukkah event. (Handout \/ various sources \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attackers represent a wide variety of ages, geographical areas, and ethnic backgrounds,\u201d said \u00a0Dr. Carl Yonker, the director of the research. \u201cAmong them is a high proportion of unemployed people and, more generally, of people to whom life has not smiled.\u201d<\/p>\n

The penetration of blatant antisemitism, including admiration for Hitler and Holocaust denial, into the mainstream currents of the Republican Party<\/a> is cause for existential concern, Yonker noted. Social media makes the fight against this phenomenon especially difficult, and perhaps impossible, he added.<\/p>\n

The report harshly criticized the Israeli government\u2019s role in the global fight against antisemitism, saying that \u201cthe government did not carry out even a single significant and effective action and often caused harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli politicians at the highest levels steadily \u201cexpanded the scope of the term \u2018antisemitism,\u2019 including through cynical and hasty declarations, drained it of meaning, and damaged the struggle against Jew-hatred,\u201d the report\u2019s authors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The year 2025 saw an alarming surge in violent attacks against Jews in a year when more Diaspora…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-389628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}