ADL Audit: Antisemitic Incidents Drop 33% in 2025, But Physical Assaults Hit Record High and Three Killed

Physical assaults reached record levels according to the audit, with the ADL recording the highest number of any annual report.

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. Acts of antisemitism on college and university campuses fell from 1,694 in 2024 to 583 in 2025.

U.S. campus protest movement drove the downturn in antisemitic incidents in 2025. The ADL largely attributes the drop in campus antisemitism to the decline of the anti-Israel encampment movement.

The number of incidents recorded at anti-Israel protests declined by 67 percent between 2024 and 2025. The ADL logged 856 incidents at anti-Israel protest events in 2025. The proportion of recorded incidents related to bias against Israel or anti-Zionism was 58 percent in 2024 and 45 percent in 2025.

Only 10 percent of antisemitic incidents recorded between 2020 and 2022 were related to Israel or Zionism. In K-12 environments, 825 antisemitic incidents were reported in 2025 compared with 860 in 2024. 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.