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

While overall incidents declined, violence intensified, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League.

An Israeli flag in a flower bed at the Pearl Street crime scene, where what the FBI called a “targeted terror attack” took the life of an elderly Jewish demonstrator and wounded five others, in Boulder, Col. on June 1, 2025. Eli Imadali / AFP via Getty Images

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.