Twenty people were killed in antisemitic attacks across the diaspora in 2025, the highest annual death toll in more than three decades and the deadliest year since the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, according to a report by the J7 Large Communities' Task Force Against Antisemitism.
The deadliest single attack came in December, when two gunmen killed 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Two people were killed during an attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, and three died in two separate attacks in the United States. More than 23,000 antisemitic incidents were documented across the seven countries surveyed — Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US — representing a 136% rise since 2022. The UK recorded the largest increase among the nations studied.
In response, the British government announced a £251 million funding boost to help police protect Jewish communities across England.