ADL Audit: US Antisemitic Incidents Fell 33% in 2025

The Anti-Defamation League released its annual audit on May 6, 2026, reporting that antisemitic incidents in the United States declined by 33 percent in 2025 after two consecutive record-high years. According to the ADL, the dissolution of the U.S. campus protest movement drove the downturn in antisemitic incidents in 2025.

Incidents of harassment and vandalism dropped markedly. The ADL recorded 856 incidents at anti-Israel protest events in 2025, a 67 percent decline from 2024.

Acts of antisemitism on college and university campuses fell from 1,694 in 2024 to 583 in 2025. The proportion of recorded incidents related to bias against Israel or anti-Zionism stood at 45 percent in 2025, down from 58 percent in 2024. Between 2020 and 2022, only 10 percent of antisemitic incidents recorded by the ADL were related to Israel or Zionism.

In K-12 environments, the ADL logged 825 antisemitic incidents in 2025 compared with 860 in 2024.

Physical assaults reached record levels according to the audit. These assaults resulted in more than 300 victims. Antisemitic attacks claimed three lives in 2025, the first year since 2019 in which such attacks resulted in deaths. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said: “People are being murdered because of antisemitism on American soil, and thousands more are threatened.”

A candlelight vigil was held at Lafayette Square in Washington, DC on May 22, 2025, following a shooting that left two Israeli embassy staffers dead. On March 12, 2026, a Dearborn, Michigan resident rammed his truck, filled with several jugs of flammable liquid and $2,250 in fireworks, into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield.