Published August 16, 2026 | Global monitoring and analysis | Estimated reading time: 12 minutes

Executive summary

Antisemitism remains elevated across several parts of the world. The latest national and international reports show persistent threats against Jewish individuals, synagogues, schools, cultural institutions, businesses, and community organizations.

This report covers developments and the latest available data from North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

No organization currently publishes a complete, independently verified weekly count covering every country. The absence of an incident from this report therefore does not mean that no incident occurred. In many countries, antisemitic incidents are not recorded separately from other religious, ethnic, or racist hate crimes.

The principal findings are:

• More than 23,000 antisemitic incidents were reportedly documented in 2025 across the seven countries with the largest Jewish communities outside Israel.
• The United States, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Australia all continue to report levels substantially above their pre–October 2023 baselines.
• Canada documented a record 6,800 incidents in 2025.
• Germany’s RIAS network documented 8,725 incidents in 2025.
• Australia recorded 1,654 incidents between October 2024 and September 2025—nearly five times its pre–October 2023 annual average.
• France continues to experience a historically high level of antisemitic acts despite a decrease from the exceptional 2024 peak.
• Argentina reported 687 complaints in 2024, an increase of 15% from 2023.
• Comparable data remains limited across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and much of Latin America.
• Online hatred, artificial intelligence–generated propaganda, Holocaust distortion, attacks against Jewish institutions, and hostility triggered by international conflicts remain major global concerns.

Methodology and important limitations

This report uses the most recent available publications from governments, law enforcement agencies, international organizations, and established Jewish community monitoring groups.

The reporting period is August 10–16, 2026, but most country statistics cover 2024 or 2025 because verified national data is normally published months after incidents occur.

The report distinguishes among:

• incidents reported to community organizations;
• incidents recorded by police;
• alleged hate crimes under investigation;
• offenses officially classified as antisemitic;
• general expressions of antisemitic hostility;
• opinion surveys measuring antisemitic attitudes.

These categories are not interchangeable.

One country may count abusive emails and targeted social media posts, while another records only incidents reported to police. A high national total may reflect a serious problem, an effective reporting network, or both. A low total may reflect fewer incidents, but it may also indicate underreporting or the absence of a specialized monitoring organization.

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights both warn that national hate-crime data cannot be compared without accounting for differences in definitions, laws, reporting practices, and institutional capacity.

Global assessment

The J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism monitors Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the seven largest Jewish communities outside Israel.

Its second annual report, released in July 2026, found that 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic violence in the Jewish diaspora in more than three decades. The report reportedly documented more than 23,000 incidents across the seven countries.

The J7 identified recurring patterns:

• physical attacks against visibly Jewish people;
• threats against synagogues and Jewish schools;
• vandalism of Jewish institutions;
• antisemitic harassment on university campuses;
• online conspiracy theories;
• Holocaust denial and distortion;
• the targeting of Jews over Israeli government policy;
• growing reluctance among some Jews to display their identity publicly.

The J7 data should not be treated as a worldwide total. Its member countries have large Jewish populations and established reporting systems, while many other countries lack comparable monitoring.

Sources: J7 global initiative and CRIF summary of the 2026 J7 report.

North America

United States

The United States continues to record one of the world’s largest absolute numbers of antisemitic incidents.

The Anti-Defamation League’s 2025 audit documented 6,274 incidents involving antisemitic assault, harassment, or vandalism. Although this represented a decline from the exceptional total recorded in 2024, 2025 remained the third-highest year since the ADL began its annual audit in 1979.

The broader security environment remains concerning. According to the ADL, at least 23 terrorist plots or attacks motivated by antisemitism or anti-Zionism targeted Jews, Zionists, or Jewish institutions in the United States between January 2020 and July 2026. Sixteen occurred between July 2024 and July 2026.

The organization has also identified more than 23 significant physical attacks on American synagogues during the past decade.

The main areas of concern include:

• threats and vandalism targeting synagogues;
• assaults against visibly Jewish individuals;
• harassment of Jewish students;
• extremist radicalization;
• online Holocaust denial;
• conspiracy theories about Jewish influence;
• the use of Middle East events to justify hostility against American Jews.

ADL’s incident tracker is designed as a near-real-time monitoring tool, but the organization emphasizes that it is not exhaustive.

Sources: ADL Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, ADL threat-environment assessment, and ADL review of attacks against synagogues.

Canada

B’nai Brith Canada documented 6,800 antisemitic incidents in 2025, the highest annual total in the audit’s history. The figure represented an increase of 9.4% from 2024 and 145.6% from 2022.

Most incidents occurred online. Ontario recorded 3,194 incidents, followed by British Columbia with 847, the Prairie provinces with 841, Alberta with 677, Quebec with 573, and Atlantic Canada with 384.

The preliminary information available for 2026 indicates a particularly serious increase in violence. By July 15, B’nai Brith had recorded 27 violent antisemitic incidents, compared with ten during all of 2025.

These preliminary figures are subject to later review and should not be combined with the completed 2025 audit.

Sources: B’nai Brith Canada 2025 annual findings and July 2026 report on violent incidents.

Mexico and Central America

Mexico and most Central American countries do not publish detailed annual antisemitism audits comparable to those available in the United States or Canada.

Antisemitic material in the region is more commonly identified through:

• social media monitoring;
• complaints filed with national anti-discrimination bodies;
• reports from local Jewish organizations;
• vandalism or threats investigated under general hate-crime laws;
• monitoring by international Jewish organizations.

The limited availability of separate data prevents a reliable regional total. This is a data gap, not evidence that antisemitism is absent.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Argentina

Argentina has the largest Jewish population in Latin America and one of the region’s most developed antisemitism-monitoring systems.

DAIA, the representative organization of Argentina’s Jewish community, received 687 antisemitism complaints in 2024, a 15% increase from 2023.

Approximately 66% of reported cases occurred in digital spaces, while 34% occurred in physical settings. DAIA also expressed concern about a rise in violent aggression and incidents in schools, universities, and residential neighborhoods.

Argentina has a unique historical security context. The country experienced the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, the deadliest antisemitic attack in the diaspora in recent decades.

Source: DAIA annual antisemitism report for Argentina.

Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and other South American countries

Systematic and directly comparable national statistics remain limited outside Argentina.

Jewish organizations in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, and other countries monitor threats and hostile discourse, but the information is often published as statements about individual incidents rather than standardized annual audits.

Regional concerns include:

• online conspiracy theories;
• extremist symbols and propaganda;
• vandalism of Jewish sites;
• political rhetoric that assigns responsibility to local Jews for events in Israel;
• Holocaust denial or trivialization;
• harassment of Jewish students.

A responsible regional report should not construct national rankings from incomplete media searches.

Europe

France

France’s Jewish community is the largest in Europe.

The French Ministry of the Interior reported that police and gendarmerie services recorded more than 16,400 racist, xenophobic, or anti-religious offenses in 2025. This broader figure includes, but is not limited to, antisemitic offenses.

The ministry’s detailed review found that antisemitic acts remained at a historically high level following October 7, 2023. Although the number decreased in 2025 compared with 2024, it remained significantly elevated.

For comparison, the FRA’s most recent cross-country table lists:

• 436 antisemitic acts and threats in France in 2022;
• 1,676 in 2023;
• 1,570 in 2024.

The French government has also discussed strengthening the role of PHAROS, the national online reporting platform, in combating illegal antisemitic and racist content.

Sources: French Interior Ministry national review, Interstats 2025 data, and FRA country data.

Germany

The Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism, or RIAS, documented 8,725 incidents in Germany in 2025, an average of approximately 24 incidents per day.

The total was more than three times the number recorded in 2022.

RIAS documented:

• 178 assaults;
• 257 threats;
• repeated incidents targeting Jewish life;
• incidents targeting people opposing antisemitism;
• Israel-related antisemitism in 68% of recorded cases.

RIAS emphasizes that its civil-society statistics are not identical to German police statistics. Data exchange with police is not uniform across all federal states, and some incidents may be known only to one reporting system.

Sources: RIAS 2025 national findings and full RIAS annual report.

United Kingdom

The Community Security Trust is the principal organization documenting antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom.

CST recorded 1,521 incidents during the first six months of 2025, the second-highest January-to-June total in its history. This was lower than the exceptional 2,019 incidents recorded during the first half of 2024 but remained far above the 965 incidents recorded during the first half of 2023.

CST also received more than 1,000 additional reports that it did not classify as antisemitic because they did not meet its evidentiary threshold. This demonstrates the importance of reviewing reports rather than automatically counting every complaint.

The United Kingdom has faced continuing concern about:

• assaults against Jewish people;
• threats and arson targeting Jewish institutions;
• antisemitic abuse at demonstrations;
• incidents in schools and universities;
• online hatred;
• security around synagogues and community services.

Source: CST Antisemitic Incidents Report.

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden

The latest FRA compilation provides the following official figures for 2024:

• Austria: 347 antisemitic hate crimes;
• Belgium: 277 reported incidents;
• Denmark: 222 hate crimes or incidents;
• Italy: 304 cases of antisemitic criminal conduct;
• Netherlands: 880 recorded discriminatory antisemitic incidents;
• Sweden: 312 recorded incidents.

These numbers cannot be ranked directly. Belgium’s figure comes from its equality body, Denmark includes certain incidents below the criminal threshold, and Italy’s figure is limited to conduct recorded as potentially criminal.

Source: FRA monitoring and country tables.

Ireland and the rest of Europe

The 2026 J7 report included a special focus on Ireland because of concern about the conditions experienced by its small Jewish community.

Across Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the OSCE receives reports concerning:

• desecration of cemeteries;
• vandalism of Holocaust memorials;
• extremist demonstrations;
• antisemitic graffiti;
• online hate;
• threats against Jewish institutions.

However, some countries submit no data broken down by antisemitic motivation. Others place antisemitism within broader racist, ethnic, or religious hate-crime categories.

The OSCE’s 2024 report received hate-crime information from 47 participating states. Only 35 provided official statistics broken down by bias motivation.

Source: OSCE 2024 Hate Crime Report.

Middle East and North Africa

Israel

Antisemitic violence in Israel must be analyzed differently from diaspora antisemitism because it frequently overlaps with terrorism, armed conflict, and state security.

This report does not count every attack against Israelis or Israeli territory as antisemitic. Motive, target selection, stated ideology, and context must be examined in each case.

Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism monitors incidents outside Israel and publishes country alerts and periodic reports. Its publications include incidents, online trends, extremist propaganda, and threats against Jewish or Israeli targets.

The ministry itself warns that some monitoring products are based on network surveillance and are provided “as is.” They should therefore be checked against local police, court, or government information when possible.

Sources: Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs publications and example of its methodological disclaimer.

Turkey, Iran, and Arab-majority countries

Reliable incident counts are extremely limited across much of the Middle East and North Africa.

In countries with very small Jewish populations, antisemitism may appear primarily through:

• state or partisan media;
• conspiracy theories;
• Holocaust denial;
• religious incitement;
• political cartoons;
• the treatment of Jewish heritage sites;
• threats against the remaining Jewish population;
• hostility toward Jewish or Israeli visitors.

Criticism of Israel is not automatically antisemitic. Analysis should examine whether the language attacks Jews collectively, uses historic anti-Jewish myths, denies equal rights to Jews, or explicitly supports violence against Jewish civilians.

The lack of independent media and civil-society monitoring in some countries makes a numerical regional assessment impossible.

Africa

South Africa

South Africa has the largest organized Jewish community in sub-Saharan Africa. Community organizations monitor antisemitic rhetoric and incidents, but recent annual figures are not consistently published in a form comparable to the J7 countries.

The political debate surrounding Israel and Gaza is intense. Strong criticism of Israel is lawful political speech; harassment of South African Jews or demands that they justify another government’s actions are not.

Other African countries

Small Jewish communities and Jewish visitors can be found in countries including Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and others.

Across most of the continent, antisemitic offenses are rarely recorded as a separate category. Available information generally comes from:

• individual police investigations;
• Jewish community statements;
• embassy security notices;
• international monitoring organizations;
• media reports.

No reliable continent-wide incident total is available.

Asia

Central and East Asia

Systematic antisemitism reporting is limited in China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, India, and Central Asia.

Antisemitism in these countries may be encountered primarily through:

• imported conspiracy theories;
• extremist online content;
• Holocaust trivialization;
• stereotypes about Jewish wealth or power;
• harassment of Jewish or Israeli travelers;
• vandalism of religious or cultural sites.

In July 2026, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry published an alert concerning an alleged violent antisemitic assault against Israeli tourists in Mongolia. As with all alerts of this kind, the allegation should be evaluated alongside local investigative information.

Source: Israeli Diaspora Affairs Ministry publication index.

South and Southeast Asia

India has several historic Jewish communities, but it does not maintain a widely accessible national antisemitism audit comparable to those in the United States, Germany, or Australia.

In Southeast Asia, Jewish communities are generally small. Antisemitism may circulate through translated conspiracy theories, extremist propaganda, political rhetoric, or hostility toward travelers.

Limited reporting infrastructure makes it impossible to determine whether low recorded numbers indicate low prevalence or simply low detection.

Oceania

Australia

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry documented 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025.

This was lower than the record 2,062 incidents documented during the previous 12-month period. Nevertheless, it remained almost five times the pre–October 2023 annual average of 342 incidents.

The report identified an increase in serious vandalism and arson even as the overall total declined.

Australia’s figures include physical assault, vandalism, direct verbal abuse, abusive messages, graffiti, and targeted propaganda. General online commentary is not counted unless it constitutes a direct threat against Jews, which makes the methodology narrower than that of some Canadian or American reporting systems.

Source: ECAJ Anti-Jewish Incidents in Australia 2025 and full ECAJ report.

New Zealand and the Pacific

New Zealand has an established Jewish community but does not publish a standardized national antisemitism audit with the same frequency as Australia.

Across the Pacific islands, Jewish populations are small and available incident data is extremely limited. Any global report should acknowledge this absence rather than classify the region as free from antisemitism.

Cross-border trends

Threats against Jewish institutions

Synagogues, Jewish schools, museums, community centers, kosher businesses, cemeteries, memorials, and charitable organizations remain recurring targets.

An attack on a Jewish institution has effects beyond physical damage. It can:

• discourage attendance at religious services;
• force schools to increase security;
• make Jewish identity less visible;
• cause community events to be canceled;
• generate fear among children and families;
• impose substantial financial costs.

Security measures should protect Jewish life without isolating Jewish institutions from the wider community.

Online antisemitism

Online platforms remain central to the international circulation of:

• threats;
• Holocaust denial;
• conspiracy theories;
• fabricated quotations;
• manipulated photographs;
• extremist propaganda;
• coordinated harassment;
• disclosure of personal information;
• collective accusations against Jews.

The Canadian and Argentine reports show the importance of online incidents within their national totals. Other organizations, such as ECAJ in Australia, use narrower rules and generally exclude nonthreatening public online discourse from incident counts.

Artificial intelligence

AI can facilitate antisemitism by producing:

• synthetic photographs;
• fabricated historical documents;
• cloned voices;
• impersonation of Jewish leaders;
• automated harassment;
• rapid translation of extremist propaganda;
• Holocaust disinformation.

The FRA has identified AI-mediated antisemitism as an emerging European priority.

Source: FRA conference on combating antisemitism.

International conflicts and local Jewish communities

Monitoring organizations regularly observe increases in antisemitic incidents following major developments in the Middle East.

Political criticism of Israel is not inherently antisemitic. It crosses into antisemitism when it:

• targets Jews as Jews;
• assigns collective responsibility to Jewish communities;
• uses classic anti-Jewish conspiracy theories;
• threatens Jewish individuals or institutions;
• praises violence against Jewish civilians;
• treats Jews differently from other ethnic or religious groups.

The assessment must be based on words, context, targeting, and conduct—not simply on whether a person supports or opposes Israeli policy.

Outlook

The global threat environment remains elevated. The most likely short-term risks include:

• additional threats against synagogues and Jewish schools;
• online reactions to Middle East developments;
• harassment of visibly Jewish people;
• targeting of Jewish or Israeli cultural events;
• Holocaust distortion;
• AI-generated disinformation;
• extremist exploitation of political polarization;
• underreporting by victims who have lost confidence in institutions.

Authorities, platforms, schools, universities, and media organizations should maintain clear reporting and response procedures.

Conclusion

The latest evidence does not support a single worldwide weekly total. It does support a clear global conclusion: antisemitism remains entrenched at levels significantly above those recorded before October 7, 2023, in many of the countries with the world’s largest Jewish communities.

The strongest available evidence comes from North America, Europe, Argentina, and Australia. Major data gaps remain across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and much of Latin America.

Those gaps must not be filled with speculation. Better international monitoring requires:

• transparent definitions;
• accessible reporting systems;
• victim support;
• cooperation between police and community organizations;
• consistent national statistics;
• responsible media coverage;
• digital evidence preservation;
• independent research;
• protection of Jewish communal life.

The goal of monitoring is not merely to count incidents. It is to ensure that Jewish people can live openly and safely, without being held responsible for the actions of a foreign government or being targeted because of their religion, ethnicity, culture, or perceived identity.

Methodology note: This report was prepared using public sources reviewed through August 16, 2026. Figures refer to different reporting periods and methodologies and should not be used to create a direct country ranking. Unverified social media allegations were excluded.