Anti-Semitic Physical Assaults in US Reach Record High, According to ADL

Violent anti-Semitic attacks in the United States reached a record high in 2025, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Physical assaults increased to record high levels. Anti-Semitic attacks resulted in fatalities on American soil for the first time since 2022 and in Jewish fatalities for the first time since 2019, according to ADL’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released on May 6.

In total, 6,274 cases of anti-Semitic assault, harassment, and vandalism were recorded in 2025—an average of 17 per day. Although this represents a 33 percent drop from 2024, the number remains significantly higher than pre–Oct. 7, 2023, levels. It is the third-highest annual total since the ADL began tracking these incidents in 1979.

While overall incidents declined, violence intensified. Physical assaults rose by 4 percent, and assaults involving a deadly weapon surged by 39 percent. Three people were killed in anti-Semitic attacks during the year: two victims in a May 21 shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, and an 82-year-old woman who died from injuries sustained in a June 1 firebombing at a “Run for Their Lives” event in Boulder, Colorado.

“Our 2025 Audit, which shows it was one of the most violent years for American Jews on record, is a reminder of how dramatically the threat landscape has shifted. Numbers that would have shocked us five years ago are now our floor,” ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. “People are being murdered because of antisemitism on American soil, and thousands more are threatened. ADL will not stop until that baseline changes.”

The report documented 203 assault incidents in 2025, up from 196 the previous year. Cases involving a deadly weapon rose to 32, from 23 in 2024, and at least 300 people were victims of assaults.

Despite the increase in assaults against Jews, some figures surrounding anti-Semitism decreased in 2025.

Vandalism accounted for 2,068 incidents, a 21 percent decrease from 2024. Additionally, there were 4,003 cases of harassment, a 39 percent decrease from 2024.

The states with the highest levels of incidents were New York with 1,160, California with 817, and New Jersey with 687.

“Behind every one of these incidents is a real person: a family threatened at their synagogue, a rabbi attacked on the street, a student harassed on campus,” Oren Segal, ADL’s senior vice president for counter-extremism and intelligence, said in a statement.

“2025 brought some of the most violent antisemitic attacks in recent memory. Even as overall incidents declined, the surge in physical assaults is a stark reminder that a historically high level of antisemitism puts Jewish lives at risk.”