By TPS-IL • April 13, 2026
Jerusalem, 13 April, 2026 (TPS-IL) — A report on international antisemitism released ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day found severe antisemitic violence in Western countries reaching record levels in 2025, with 20 Jews killed in four attacks across three continents—the highest number in More Than three decades.
The report also includes a first-of-its-kind study examining the profiles of antisemitic attackers, finding that many act alone and come from opposite ideological extremes, making prevention especially difficult.
“Our profiling has shown why it is so difficult to cope with antisemitic crimes. There is no single identity for the perpetrators. They act alone. They have no unified political or sociological affiliation, no organization to look into. And they are radicalized online,” Professor Uriya Shavit, the editor-in-chief of the 152-page report, told The Press Service of Israel.
He added that the profiling drew on legal indictments from four countries—France, Canada, Britain, and the United States.
Based on thousands of legal and journalistic documents from those countries, as well as interviews with legal experts, the study found that many attackers were “lone wolves” operating outside organized frameworks.
They were largely drawn from two distinct groups: white supremacists on one side and anti-Zionist Muslims on the other, Shavit said.
The attackers varied widely in age, background, and location, though many shared social marginalization, including high levels of unemployment, Shavit said.
The broader report documents a sharp rise in physical assaults against Jews across multiple countries—a trend the authors say appears to be a new status quo.
“Despite the end of the war in Gaza in October 2025, the number of antisemitic incidents in countries with major Jewish populations remained in 2025 by dozens of percent higher than in 2022, the year before the war. This raises concerns that, rather than a backlash to a specific geopolitical crisis, high levels of antisemitism have become a normalized feature in societies with large Jewish minorities,” they said in the report’s foreword.
In many Western countries, cases involving physical violence, such as beatings and stone throwing, increased compared to 2024. At the same time, total incident numbers—which also include vandalism and online harassment—rose in some countries and declined in others. However, in every case, levels remained significantly higher than in 2022, before the outbreak of the war in Gaza.
According to the report, Australia and Canada recorded particularly severe data. In Australia, antisemitic incidents rose to 1,750 in 2025, up from 1,727 the previous year and sharply higher than 472 in 2022. The country also saw one of the deadliest attacks of the year, in which 15 Jews were killed at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach during Chanukah.
In Canada, incidents climbed to 6,800—more than three times the level recorded in 2022. Britain also saw an increase, with 3,700 incidents reported in 2025 compared to 3,556 in 2024.
Notably, the number of incidents rose after the end of the Gaza war, with a sharp increase in the final months of the year.
A similar pattern was observed in New York, where overall incidents declined slightly but rose again in the months following the war.
France and Germany showed more mixed trends. In France, total incidents declined, but cases involving physical violence increased. In Germany, both overall incidents and violent cases declined, though levels remained significantly higher than before the war.
The report, published annually since 2001 and based on data from law enforcement agencies, Jewish organizations, and field research, is widely considered one of the most comprehensive assessments of antisemitism worldwide.
“The data are severe, and it shows that the end of the war in Gaza did not stop antisemitic attacks. In addition to the fuel of social networks and the expanding consensus of the margins from which the perpetrators come, there is no reason to be optimistic,” Shavit said.
“But what is most alarming is that no government defines it as a goal to be measured and solved, like car accidents or any other crime,” he added.
Holocaust Memorial Day, honors the six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies. Commemorations begin on Monday at sundown.