Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2025

Key Findings:

• ADL recorded 6,274 antisemitic incidents in the United States in 2025, making it the third-highest year on record since ADL began tracking incidents in 1979. This was 33% lower than 2024 but still about five times higher than a decade earlier.

• The incident breakdown was:

  • 4,003 harassment incidents

  • 2,068 vandalism incidents

  • 203 assault incidents

• Harassment and vandalism decreased compared with 2024, but physical assaults rose from 196 to 203, reaching the highest level ADL has recorded. In 2025, three people were killed in antisemitic attacks, the first year since 2019 in which Jewish people were murdered in antisemitic attacks in the U.S.

• ADL identified 32 antisemitic assaults involving a deadly weapon, up from 23 in 2024. Notable violent incidents included the Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion arson, the Capital Jewish Museum murders, the Colorado firebombing, and a Brooklyn stabbing.

• Incidents on college and university campuses decreased sharply, from 1,694 in 2024 to 583 in 2025, a 66% decrease. ADL attributes much of this drop to the decline of the anti-Israel encampment movement that drove a spike in campus incidents in spring 2024. However, 2025 campus incidents remained almost three times higher than in 2021.

• Incidents at Jewish institutions decreased from 1,702 to 1,129, a 34% decrease. Bomb threats against Jewish institutions dropped sharply, from 627 in 2024 to 59 in 2025, but ADL emphasizes that Jewish institutions still face a serious threat environment.

• K–12 school incidents remained relatively stable, with 825 incidents in 2025 compared with 860 in 2024. ADL notes that these incidents are often peer-to-peer antisemitic bullying or vandalism, such as swastikas in classrooms.

• White supremacist antisemitic propaganda and events decreased by 51% in 2025. ADL recorded 495 propaganda distributions and 21 public events by white supremacist groups. Patriot Front accounted for the largest share, with 367 antisemitic propaganda distributions and four antisemitic events.

• Incidents related to Israel or Zionism remained highly elevated: 2,847 incidents, or 45% of all incidents, involved Israel- or Zionism-related elements. This was lower than 2024, when such incidents made up 58%, but far above the 2020–2022 baseline of about 10%.

• ADL recorded 856 antisemitic incidents at or near anti-Israel protests in 2025. This represented a 67% decrease from 2024, but the report notes continuing concern about rhetoric that glorified Hamas, Hezbollah, the October 7 attacks, or violence against Jews, Israelis, or Zionists.

• Antisemitic incidents occurred in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The highest totals were in New York (1,160), California (817), and New Jersey (687). Major metro areas with large Jewish populations had the highest concentration, including New York City, Los Angeles County, and Bergen County, NJ.

Recommendations / Policy Priorities:

• Federal: Fund the Nonprofit Security Grant Program at $1 billion to protect synagogues, schools, and other at-risk institutions; support the SACRED Act to create safe access zones around houses of worship.

• State: Establish and fund state-level Nonprofit Security Grant Programs and enact safe worship zone laws to protect access to houses of worship.

• Higher education: Strengthen institutional responses to antisemitism through clear policies, consistent enforcement, dedicated Title VI infrastructure, timely investigations, transparency, and support for affected Jewish students.

• K–12 education: Adopt comprehensive approaches grounded in clear definitions, antisemitism education, transparent reporting and investigations, staff training, and fact-based curricula on Judaism, Israel, and the Holocaust.