A person holds a sign near the scene where four ambulances belonging to Hatzola, a Jewish community organization, were set on fire in an incident that the police say is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, in northwest London, Britain, March 23, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Isabel Infantes

Diaspora Jewish communities endured their deadliest year in more than three decades in 2025, as a wave of deadly antisemitic attacks exposed an increasingly violent climate confronting Jews around the world, according to a new international report.

Published by the J7 Large Communities Task Force Against Antisemitism, an international coalition representing the seven largest Jewish diaspora communities, the report examines antisemitic trends across Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

Together, those countries are home to more than 90 percent of the world’s Jewish population outside Israel, where antisemitism remained at historically high levels in 2025 despite declines in reported incidents in some countries.

Since the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, reported antisemitic incidents across the seven countries have surged 136 percent compared to 2022, while violent incidents have risen 97 percent, highlighting what researchers describe as a sustained and deeply entrenched escalation in anti-Jewish hatred.

In a joint statement, the task force warned that antisemitism has become an enduring and increasingly dangerous reality for Jewish communities worldwide, urging governments to adopt stronger preventive measures before violence escalates further.

“Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge, it is our new normal,” the statement reads. “Governments must stop reacting after Jews are attacked and start acting before, with real security funding, stronger laws and social media platforms that enforce their own rules.”

The newly released report found that the United Kingdom recorded the sharpest rise in antisemitic incidents of any major Jewish diaspora community in 2025, making it one of just three countries — alongside Argentina and Germany — to report an increase in incidents from the previous year.

In Britain, reported antisemitic incidents rose 5 percent in 2025, defying the downward trend seen in most of the other countries surveyed and reflecting continued concerns over the worsening climate for the country’s Jewish community.

Amid growing security concerns and an increasingly hostile environment for the country’s Jewish community, the British government last week announced an additional £25 million ($33.7 million) in funding to strengthen security at Jewish schools, synagogues, and community centers, bringing total government support this year to a record £58 million ($78.2 million).

Even though the United States, Australia, Canada, and France reported fewer antisemitic incidents in 2025 than the previous year, the report found that every country surveyed continued to record significantly higher levels than before the Oct. 7 atrocities.

During all of last year, 20 people were killed in antisemitic attacks — the highest annual death toll for Jews living outside Israel in more than three decades, highlighting an alarming escalation in the scale, violence, and brazenness of attacks targeting Jews worldwide.

In Australia, 15 people were killed and at least 40 others wounded after two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, marking the deadliest antisemitic attack against the Jewish diaspora this century.

In the UK, two Jewish men were killed and at least three others critically wounded after a man rammed a vehicle onto the grounds of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur before launching a stabbing spree.

In the US, two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC, last May, followed weeks later by a Molotov cocktail attack at a Colorado gathering in support of hostages held in Gaza that killed one person and injured 13 others.