Antisemitism in 2026: what the latest figures show

Three years after 7 October 2023, the organisations that monitor antisemitism no longer describe a temporary surge. “Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal,” the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism said in July.

The deadliest year in three decades

According to the J7’s second annual report, 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks in the Jewish diaspora since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish centre in Buenos Aires. Twenty people were murdered: fifteen at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, two at the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, two outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, and a grandmother in Boulder, Colorado.

Across the seven J7 countries — Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States — total antisemitic incidents are 136% higher than in 2022, and violent incidents 97% higher.

United States

The Anti-Defamation League’s audit for 2025 found an average of 17 antisemitic incidents a day, making it the third-highest year since tracking began in 1979. Harassment and vandalism fell significantly from the record highs of 2023 and 2024, but physical assaults reached their highest level ever.

United Kingdom

The Community Security Trust recorded 1,926 antisemitic incidents in the first half of 2026 — 21% more than in the same period of 2025 and the second-highest half-year total it has ever recorded. CST links the rise from March onwards to the war involving Israel, the United States and Iran that began on 28 February. In the week after the first airstrikes, incidents rose by 71%.

The Netherlands

In the Netherlands, CIDI registered 281 antisemitic incidents in 2025, about a third fewer than the 421 recorded in 2024, with a fall in every category. The National Coordinator for Combating Antisemitism, Eddo Verdoner, warned that the figure remains “structurally high” compared with the years before 7 October 2023.

Old lies, new places

The CST report illustrates how ancient accusations return: among its images is a placard in Cheshire in April 2026 blaming Jews for killing Jesus. Monitoring groups consistently note that Jews in London, Amsterdam or Sydney are targeted for events in the Middle East in which they have no part.

Criticism of Israeli government policy is legitimate. It becomes antisemitism when Jews as a group are held responsible, when Israel alone is denied the right to exist, or when classic anti-Jewish tropes are used.

GOD News follows these developments in its dossier “Antisemitism worldwide”.