Jew hatred sweeps the world: Task force sounds alarm after deadliest year for diaspora Jews since the 90s

The wave of antisemitism and open incitement against Jews and Israelis in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, massacre has led to the deadliest year for the Jewish diaspora in over 30 years, according to a new report by the J7 Task Force, representing the seven largest Jewish communities outside Israel.

During the year 2025, antisemitism “deepened, broadened and… turned lethal,” the task force wrote, stressing that every one of the antisemitic attacks that killed 20 people in 2025 occurred in one of the J7 countries.

In addition to the Bondi Beach massacre, where 15 people were slaughtered, “two were murdered at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and three were killed in the United States – two at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. and a grandmother in Boulder, Colorado.”

The last comparable peak of antisemitic killings came in the 90s, when a Hezbollah-linked suicide bombing on July 18, 1994 killed 85 people at the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, two years after a suicide bomber had attacked the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, killing 29 people.

Last year’s deadly attacks are only the “endpoint of a continuum of hatred that this report documents from the more than 23,000 antisemitic incidents recorded across the J7 countries in 2025 alone.”

“Germany recorded 8,725 [antisemitic] incidents, the United States 6,274, the United Kingdom 3,700, Australia 1,654, France 1,320, Canada 788, and Argentina 713,” the group noted, adding that data showed antisemitism flourished “on the far right, on the far left, and in Islamist extremism simultaneously.”

Even more worryingly, the report issued a stark warning that the wave of hatred caused by Oct. 7 is not receding but rather created a “new and persistently elevated baseline,” despite a slight decrease in overall incidents in four of the J7 countries after a peak in 2024.

Looking at the situation compared to 2021, however, a stark picture emerged: “Incidents increased by 46 percent in Argentina, 60 percent in Canada, 64 percent in the United Kingdom, 124 percent in France, 131 percent in the United States, 215 percent in Germany, and 270 percent in Australia.”

Per capita, “Germany continues to record the highest rate of any J7 country by a substantial margin, reaching 69.80 incidents per 1,000 Jewish residents in 2025, compared to 23.50 in 2021. Australia, at 14.14 per 1,000, and the United Kingdom, at 11.82 per 1,000, represent the second and third highest rates, respectively.”

The report also identified several trends that characterized the experiences of all seven Jewish communities. For example, all communities reported that they increasingly hide their Jewish identity in public, which leads to a questioning of whether they still have a future in their home countries.

All seven communities also reported a mainstreaming of antisemitism, which is not limited to the fringes of society anymore. Nowhere can this be observed better than on university campuses and other educational institutions, which have become flashpoints of antisemitism, often disguised as anti-Zionism.

In the UK, “anti-Zionism was the key motivation behind 48 percent of all incidents, and more than 53 percent of all incidents referenced Israel, Gaza, the war or October 7.”

While incidents on universities overall declined in the U.S., Jewish students in all seven countries testified that they are forced to self-censor and experienced “exclusion, hostile classroom environments, and inadequate institutional responses.”

“In Australia, three-quarters of Jewish students heard antisemitic comments on campus. In Canada, Jewish students faced peer-imposed litmus tests and faculty unions were willing to abdicate academic freedom for political narratives. In the United States, 13 percent of Jewish Americans reported experiencing antisemitism in an educational institution,” the report noted.

The sphere with the most openly hate-filled and violent rhetoric has been online. In Argentina, J7’s partner organization DAIA found that 66 percent of all incidents originated online, while Germany’s RIAS documented a 16.6 percent rise in online incidents.

“Across all seven countries, a new and particularly menacing development is the weaponization of artificial intelligence to generate, amplify, and disseminate antisemitic content at scale,” the report warned.

“ADL research found that four leading large language models, namely OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s Llama, exhibited measurable anti-Jewish bias in English, and that AI video tools produced antisemitic outputs at least 40 percent of the time when tested.”

The report also included a special focus on a country with a “high per-capita rate within one of Europe’s smallest Jewish communities” – Ireland.

Antisemitic incidents there “remain largely absent from official data and public policy frameworks,” the report warned, adding that “despite clear evidence of antisemitic incidents, Ireland has yet to develop a meaningful governmental response, with no dedicated national framework, no systematic data collection, and no targeted policy measures in place.”

Summing up, the J7 report concluded that “antisemitism remains an urgent and present threat for Jewish communities in the J7 countries.

It also renewed its call from the previous year’s report, urging governments, international and non-governmental organizations, “to take immediate and preemptive action to secure the safety of Jewish communities and institutions in order to prevent attacks rather than just reacting to them.”

The task force also called on governments to “establish dedicated national strategies, centralized incident-reporting systems, and targeted security funding for Jewish institutions.”

However, in a positive point at the end of a sobering report, the task force noted: “Jewish communities across all seven countries have responded to rising antisemitism not with retreat, but with resilience. In survey after survey, many Jews report drawing closer to Jewish life, not further away. That spirit of communal solidarity is the foundation on which the J7 Task Force was built, and it is what drives this work forward.”