Overview
- The ADL's 2025 audit found 203 antisemitic assaults, the most since tracking began in 1979, even as total incidents fell 33 percent to 6,274.
- Violence grew more lethal, with weapon-involved attacks rising 39 percent to 32 cases and three deaths, including two people shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum and a later death after a Boulder firebombing.
- Reports tied to colleges plunged from 1,694 in 2024 to 583 in 2025 and incidents linked to anti-Israel encampments dropped 83 percent, which the ADL links to stricter campus discipline and federal pressure.
- Harm was concentrated in a few places and communities, with New York logging 1,160 incidents and 90 assaults and Orthodox Jews targeted in 38 percent of attacks.
- The findings arrive as the Education Department investigates New York City schools over alleged anti-Jewish discrimination and as critics question ADL definitions that can count some anti-Zionist expression.