
ANTISEMITISM MONITOR
The Antisemitism Monitor reports antisemitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis. This year’s incidents are below. View incidents from 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. See the country-by-country breakdown.
BY IRA N. FORMAN | 2025

ANTISEMITISM MONITOR
The Antisemitism Monitor reports antisemitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis. This year’s incidents are below. View incidents from 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. See the country-by-country breakdown.
BY IRA N. FORMAN | 2025
United States Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Armenia Australia Austria
Azerbaijan Bahrain Belarus Belgium Bosnia Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Canada
Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Eritrea
Estonia Ethiopia European Union Finland France Georgia Germany Greece
Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan
Kosovo Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Maurtania
Mexico Moldova Montenegro Morocco New Zealand North Macedonia Norway
Pakistan Palestinian Territories Paraguay Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia
Saudi Arabia Scotland Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain
Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom Uruguay Vatican City Venezuela Yemen
Afghanistan
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Albania
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Algeria
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Argentina
January 10: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro calls Argentinian government “Nazi and Zionist.”
Armenia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Australia
February 10: Stand-in for presenter on Australian Mornings show is fired after being accused of antisemitism and bias.
February 6: Veteran arrested for photographing his friend unfurling a Nazi flag close to a Jewish museum.
February 4: Man charged after spray-painting antisemitic graffiti on a fence and then spat on and threw bacon at a passerby who tried to stop him.
February 3: Man arrested for antisemitic stalking and intimidation. In separate incident men throw eggs from a car at Jewish women.
January 30: Antisemitic graffiti on a Jewish school in Sydney as well as a neighboring home.
January 29: Law enforcement finds Jewish target list in a trailer with a cache of explosives on the outskirts of Sydney and three more incidents of antisemitic graffiti found in the city.
January 25: Australian Jewish community criticizes Queensland University of Technology for including an antisemitic lecture as part of an anti-racism conference.
January 22: Australian police investigating whether antisemitic crimes in the country were being paid for by overseas actors and carried out by local criminals.
January 20: Child Care center in Sydney set on fire and vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.
January 16: Sydney man charged with making death threats toward members of Jewish organization.
January 16: The former home of a Sydney Jewish leader is vandalized and two nearby cars burned include a graffiti type slur against Jews.
January 15: New Madinah College principal investigated for making antisemitic comments including “Zionists should burn in the pits of hellfire.”
January 13: Year-end review of antisemitism in Australia as well as efforts to counter Jew and Israel hatred.
January 13: Jewish MP calls for legislation mandating jail sentences for perpetrators of synagogue vandalism.
January 12: Pro-Israel demonstators told to go back to “Poland” or “Germany” and had money thrown at them to illustrate a classic antisemitic meme.
January 12: Man arrested in New South Wales for painting swastikas on the wall of a pharmacy.
January 12: Australian police say synagogue that was defaced with swastikas in Sydney was also the target of arson.
January 12: Police chase of a moped, which ended in the death of an Egyptian-Italian national, sparks throwing of Molotov cocktail and vandalism of a Bologna synagogue.
January 11: Second Sydney synagogue defaced with red swastikas one day after another synagogue was hit with antisemitic graffiti.
January 11: A house, five cars and a trailer in the heavily Jewish suburb of Queens Park vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.
January 6: “F*** the Jews” spray-painted on a car in a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Sydney.
January 2: Jewish former CEO of an AI company target of an antisemitic rant by a company shareholder.
Austria
January 6: Far-right, Freedom Party, founded by former Nazis given the mandate to form a government in Austria.
Azerbaijan
January 14: Azerbaijan breaks up suspected Iranian backed plot to assassinate local Jewish leader.
Bahrain
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Belarus
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Belgium
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Brazil
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Bulgaria
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Canada
February 1: Hamilton man is charged with hate crime for online promotion of antisemitism and advocating genocide.
January 17: Several swastikas carved into the wall of a bathroom in the Whitby Central Library in Whitby, Ontario.
January 14: Two kosher restaurants and caterer locations in Toronto ransacked, one of which was defaced with antisemitic graffiti.
January 14: Nineteen-year old in Winnipeg charged over multiple incidents of tagging buildings with antisemitic graffiti over a three-month period.
January 7: Carleton University in Ottawa comes under fire for hiring a convicted terrorist who bombed a Paris synagogue in 1980 to teach a course on social justice.
January 3: Demonstrators and vandals target 2024 Chanukah celebrations and displays around the world.
January 2: Antisemitic graffiti including at least five swastikas painted on a Winnipeg community center.
Chile
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
China
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Colombia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Croatia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Cyprus
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Czech Republic
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Denmark
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Egypt
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Eritrea
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Estonia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Ethiopia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

European Union (EU)
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Finland
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
France
January 29: The Jewish security organization SPCA finds antisemitic incidents in 2024 were slightly lower (6%) than the previous year but antisemitic acts of violence rose 24.7%— the highest level since these statistics were first recorded in 2012.
January 23: Antisemitic acts are at an all-time high in France.
January 7: Anger in Paris over extensive antisemitic graffiti around the city on the 10th Anniversary of Charlie Hebdo massacre.
January 3: Spray-painted red hands graffiti used to deface the Holocaust museum in Paris in May are traced back to a wider Russian attempt to destabilize France.
Georgia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Germany
February 4: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Berlin shout “shoot Jews or hand them over to Hamas” while police take no action.
January 4: Jewish street artist assaulted for wearing a pin promoting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Greece
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Honduras
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Hungary
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Iceland
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
India
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Indonesia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Iran
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Ireland
January 1: Ireland’s most senior Catholic cleric, Archbishop Eamon Martin characterized Israel’s military actions in Gaza, as “merciless” and “disproportionate.”

Israel
January 5: Wikipedia labels IDF rescue of hostages in Gaza a “massacre.”

Italy
February 4: Murals in Milan produced to honor the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and highlighting prominent Italian survivors are vandalized shortly after their debut.
February 4: Homeless Egyptian asylum seeker attacks Jewish boy in Rome.
January 22: Moroccan ISIS member arrested in Naples for planning a terrorist attack on the Jewish community.

Japan
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Jordan
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Kosovo
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Kuwait
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Latvia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Lebanon
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Lithuania
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Luxembourg
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Malaysia
February 7: Malaysian businessman and owner of soccer clubs in the UK and Los Angeles reposts theories that Israel owns the U.S. (citing Jeffrey Epstein as evidence), praises Hezbollah and urges “armies” to “dismantle” Israel.

Mauritania
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Mexico
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Moldova
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Montenegro
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Morocco
January 22: Moroccan ISIS member arrested in Naples for planning a terrorist attack on the Jewish community.

Netherlands
January 20: In the face of antisemitic threats Amsterdam club cancels performance by Israeli comedian.

New Zealand
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

North Macedonia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Norway
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Pakistan
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Palestinian Territories
January 8: Israeli Minister of Culture calls on FIFA to remove Jibril Rajoub as president of the Palestine Football Association for defending the terror attack of October 7 and calling for violence against Israeli civilians.
Paraguay
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Poland
January 29: Far-right Polish parliamentarian with a history of antisemitic behavior interrupts moment of silence for Holocaust victims to ask for prayers “for the victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza.”
January 7: Warsaw Ghetto memorial defaced with red graffiti stating “Warsaw 1943=Gaza 2025.”
Portugal
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Qatar
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Romania
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Russia
January 31: Summary of report on antisemitism in Russia and Putin’s role as well as incidents in Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Scotland
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Serbia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Singapore
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Slovakia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Slovenia
January 17: Medieval synagogue in Slovenia defaced with graffiti reading “Jews and the evil of the world” and “Death to the Jews, glory to Slovenia.”

South Africa
January 28: Chief rabbi of South Africa invites an international counterterrorism task force to assist investigation of recent attack with an explosive device against the Jewish community center in Cape Town.
South Korea
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Spain
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Sri Lanka
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Sweden
February 7: Iranian proxies in Sweden recruit criminals and minors to use violence against Jews and Israelis.

Switzerland
January 19: Israeli man claims he and his family were kicked out of a luxury hotel in Switzerland by a manager who told them to leave because they are Jewish, but the hotel rejects the charge.
Syria
February 7: New Syrian government issues textbooks with antisemitic passages.
Taiwan
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Tunisia
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Turkey
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Ukraine
January 3: Demonstrators and vandals target 2024 Chanukah celebrations and displays around the world.
United Arab Emirates
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
United Kingdom
February 8: UK health minister fired after antisemitic sexist texts discovered.
February 7: London Islamic Centre hosts video of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei calling Israel a “cancerous tumor.”
February 5; Interfaith charity Building Bridges post images of the Statue of Liberty holding a Jewish baby who is drinking Palestinian blood, compares Israel to Nazi Germany.
February 4: Star of UK Channel 4’s immigration show has on more than one occasion denigrated Jews—including call Jews “a bunch of lying scumbags.”
January 31: Jews walk out of a Leicester Holocaust Memorial Day event after a speaker claimed Israel was engaged in genocide in Gaza.
January 30: A senior leader in the international aid group ActionAid accuses the British government of “bankrolling a genocide in Gaza.”
January 30: Guardian columnist calls Palestinian terrorist who carried out a knife attack on Israelis a hostage and claims Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorist acts are treated worse than Israeli hostages seized by Hamas.
January 30: British Anglican priest with a history of antisemitic comments and far-right political connections copies Elon Musk’s controversial straight-armed salute at a Washington, DC, pro-life summit, is defrocked by the Anglican Church.
January 28: Members of anti-Israel organization Jews against Genocide protest at the Kindertransport memorial in Liverpool and then hang anti-Israel signs charging the Jewish state with genocide.
January 27: Jewish NGO survey finds half of British Jewry has considered emigrating because of antisemitism.
January 13: UK Health Secretary shocked by incidents of antisemitism in the NHS (National Health Service).
January 11: Report claims that BBC repeatedly cited Palestinian news outlets that glorified acts of terror and made antisemitic statements.
January 9: Powerful teachers’ union, NEU, said to take a leading role in anti-Israel protests and focus on spreading anti-Israel propaganda among UK school children.
January 3: Demonstrators and vandals target 2024 Chanukah celebrations and displays around the world.
January 3: BBC criticized for ambushing a rabbi on air with hostile questions about Israel after he was invited to talk about Hanukkah.
January 2: World Bowls Tour overturns ban on Israeli participation after widespread pushback.
United States
February 9: Home of University of California Regent Jay Sures vandalized by Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA.
February 8: Neo-Nazi group carry signs featuring swastikas and racist language while demonstrating on an overpass in Evandale, OH.
February 8: NYPD looking for suspect who assaulted a Jewish man on the F train.
February 8: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, praises Hitler, calls himself a Nazi and vows never to apologize for his “JEWISH COMMENTS” in a weekend-long posting spree on X.
February 8: Staffer for Elon Musk, who resigned his position for racist comments on social media and a post saying he “would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the earth,” has Musk’s support for reinstatement.
February 7: Two synagogues in El Paso, TX, vandalized with Nazi symbols.
February 7: Swastika graffiti appears in Uxbridge, MA, high school.
February 7: Former senior staff member of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) goes on a profanity-laced tirade against two Jewish men outside a Manhattan office building.
February 6: University of Central Florida suspends a fraternity over antisemitic hazing.
February 5: Georgetown University law school chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine invite PFLP (an organization that the U.S. designates a terrorist group) speaker who was involved in terrorist bombing that killed an Israeli teenager.
February 5: Police in Issaquah, WA, search for man suspected to be behind two incidents of antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ graffiti.
February 4: Mezuzah torn off a Portland, OR, Chabad House.
February 4: Jewish actor Wallace Shawn compares Israel to the Nazis during a podcast.
February 3: Plastic skull with antisemitic messages written on it discovered in New Haven, CT.
February 3: U.S. Justice Department forms task force to combat antisemitism in schools and colleges.
February 2: Dallas man faces up to 15 years in prison for threatening Sikhs and Muslims and making antisemitic comments.
February 2: Oscar-nominated actress apologizes for 2019 social media post praising Hitler and denigrating Muslims.
February 2: Hillel International and ADL release poll that reveals 83% of Jewish college students surveyed have experienced or witnessed antisemitism since October 7.
January 31: Anti-Zionist group at Columbia Univ. flood toilets of an academic building with concrete.
January 31: An online summary for an upcoming UC Berkeley forum on “Feminist and Queer Solidarities with Palestine” claims that Hamas’s mass sexual violence on October has been “debunked.”
January 31: UFC fighter extolls Hitler as a “good guy” who “fought greedy Jews.”
January 30: Antisemitic flyers distributed in Flushing, MI.
January 30: Chautauqua Institution embroiled in controversy with Jewish community over erroneous views of Zionism and Judaism of the institution’s director of religion programs.
January 30: British Anglican priest with a history of antisemitic comments and far-right political connections copies Elon Musk’s controversial straight-armed salute at a Washington, DC, pro-life summit, is defrocked by the Anglican Church.
January 29: Faculty union at CUNY passes BDS resolution and calls Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide.
January 29: Five American Jewish organizations publicize their disappointment over the American Academy of Pediatrics’ letter to former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the well-being of a Gaza physician who also holds the rank of colonel in Hamas.
January 28: Coalition of Jewish groups pledge to stop posting on X because of Elon Musk’s personal conduct as well as the amount of antisemitism on his social media platform.
January 28: Swastikas found in middle school in Westfield, MA.
January 28: Members of anti-Israel organization Jews against Genocide protest at the Kindertransport memorial in Liverpool and then hang anti-Israel signs charging the Jewish state with genocide.
January 28: Survey by the Jewish Community Relations Council finds 55% of the Bay Area Jewish community feels less safe in 2024 then they did before the October 7 Hamas’ massacre of Israelis near the Gaza border.
January 28: Despite criticism of the state’s Democratic Chair, local Tampa Democrats fail to take action against Democratic activist who tried urged a boycott of local Jewish Democratic caucus meetings and created a group called “Anti-Genocide” Democrats.
January 28: An Aurora, CO high school basketball coach suspended after displaying a Palestinian flag during a game against Denver Academy of Torah.
January 27: Anti-Israel protesters vandalized with graffiti the property of an Orange, New Jersey synagogue that was hosting a talk by an Israeli soldier who is part of a search and rescue unit.
January 26: Lindsey Graham criticizes Elon Musk for telling the gathering of the German far-right party to “move beyond guilt” for the Nazi regime.
January 26: Brooklyn Israeli restaurant, Miriam, defaced with red paint on door and red stenciled anti-Israel graffiti.
January 24: UN Special Rapporteur with a history of extreme anti-Israel comments— including accusing Israel of genocide and claiming Hamas is not a terrorist organization— blasts Netanyahu on social media with a profanity.
January 24: UC Berkeley PhD student sues her local UAW Union for discriminating against Jewish and Israeli union members and cites the union’s determination to advance an anti-Israel agenda.
January 24: Wikipedia bans eight editors—two pro-Israel and six pro-Palestinian—from making changes to articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an effort to deter intentional distortions and restore civility to the debates over Israel-related content.
January 23: ADL analysts locate online manifesto of Black school shooter in Tennessee containing anti-Black and antisemitic content along with references to accelerationism.
January 23: Columbia University suspends student for participating in a masked, disruption of a class on modern Israeli history.
January 23: NYU suspends 13 students and puts on probation 20 more for pro-Palestinian sit-in at the library in the midst of finals week.
January 22: Vandals deface Cornell University statue with graffiti claiming Israel is practitioner of apartheid.
January 22: Masked students with flyers showing a Star of David being crushed and an Israeli flag being burned interrupt a class on the history of modern Israel at Columbia University.
January 22: A majority on the Chicago City Council demand removal of artwork at a cultural center that is characterized as antisemitic and demand Mayor Brandon Johnson also condemn the display.
January 22: Israeli IDF reservist is deeply concerned that his school, DePaul University, is failing to protection for him on campus after a pro-Palestinian group produced flyers accusing him of genocide and a subsequent violent attack by two masked men that gave him a concussion.
January 21: Harvard settles two lawsuits filed by Jewish organizations and adopts the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism for discipline cases and which can be applied to anti-Israel speech and incidents under certain circumstances.
January 21: Ilhan Omar accuses Israel of genocide and calls for arms embargo of Israel.
January 20: Elon Musk’s straight-armed gesture at an inauguration event seen by many as a Nazi salute.
January 18: U.S. House “Squad” members Summer Lee, Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib listed as speakers at the Inauguration ball of Code Pink.
January 17: U.S. Department of Education reports that complaints about antisemitic discrimination have soared 1,803% since January 2021— the most significant rise coming after October 7, 2023.
January 17: Trump picks Mel Gibson, well known for past antisemitic remarks, as one of three of his personal “Hollywood ambassadors.”
January 17: Man dressed as Haredi Jew aggressively tries to enter a Jewish community center in Nashville and is arrested for assault and criminal trespassing.
January 17: The UN announces new plan to counter surge in worldwide antisemitism.
January 16: Two journalists interrupt Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s final press conference, one of whom, Max Blumenthal, calls Israel’s actions genocide and accuses Blinken of “sacrifice[ing] the rules based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism.”
January 15: Police arrest suspects alleged to have painted swastikas on Sacramento-area school building.
January 15: ADL latest Global 100 survey finds early half the world’s adult population hold antisemitic views.
January 13: American Historical Association charges Israel with “scholasticide.”
January 13: U.S. designates radical right-wing “Terrorgram” network, which targets attacks on Blacks, Jews, immigrants and LBGT individuals to spark race war, as a terrorist group.
January 13: UN advisor Francesca Albanese amplified an X post that claimed the L.A. fires and Gaza are “symptoms of the same disease.”
January 10: Texas man, arrested for emailing a Houston Jewish funeral home that he wanted to “behead and bury” Jews.
January 10: Palestinian activist who ejected from a gym and arrested after wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “Israel kills children,” and who has posted extreme anti-Israel/pro-Hamas sentiment, identified as the CEO of a Tempe, AZ, healthcare company.
January 10: Kentucky Jewish Council presents report to state legislators on rising antisemitism in the state.
January 9: Quaker group American Friends Service Committee denounces New York Times after the paper would not allow their ad to charge Israel with genocide.
January 9: Jewish NGO Stand with Us releases booklet on Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) that highlights the group’s increasing extremism and argues that JVP’sadoption of an anti-Zionist that denies Israel’s right to exist is antisemitic.
January 7: Elon Musk amplifies a video by a former Marine who denied the holocaust and published antisemitic conspiracy theories.
January 6: NYPD reports Jews were the target of a majority of all hate crimes (not just religious hate crimes) in the city in 2024.
January 6: Beverly, Massachusetts man arrested after the FBI informed local police that he was threatening rape of Jewish women and encouraged others online to shoot Jews outside synagogues
January 6: NYPD reports Jews were the target of a majority of all hate crimes (not just religious hate crimes) in the city in 2024.
January 5: Bags of rat poison and antisemitic messages are left on porches in Allen Park, MI.
January 3: Graffiti reading “Israelis are the new Nazis” found by Chabad Menorah at Oakland, California’s Lake Merritt.
January 3: In the wake of the deadly New Year’s attack in New Orleans ADL reports on anti-Israel/antisemitic conspiracy theories on social media.
January 3: Racist and antisemitic vandalism found at Islander Middle School in Mercer Island, WA.
January 3: Imam of man accused of New Orleans terrorist attack on New Year’s day preached that Hitler killed Jews because “they like to take control of the economy.”
January 2: Demonstrators chanting “there is only one solution—Intifada Revolution” and carrying signs calling Israel a cancer march in New York’s Times Square.
Uruguay
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.

Vatican City
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Venezuela
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Vietnam
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
Yemen
No incidents yet reported for 2025. View last year’s list here.
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