(JNS) Modern antisemitism is no longer just making headlines; it is claiming lives.
The numbers are staggering. A new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), examining the seven countries with the world’s largest Jewish communities—the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Argentina and Australia—found that 2025 was the deadliest year for Jews since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Twenty Jews were murdered. More than 23,000 antisemitic incidents were recorded, a 136% increase over the previous year, while violent assaults—including beatings, stabbings and shootings—rose by 97%.
Is anyone really surprised?
Antisemitism has become part of everyday life. It is heard in restaurants and classrooms, in the casual ignorance repeated around dinner tables, in the relentless misinformation about Israel on television and in the cynical calculations of politicians chasing votes.
Even Ireland, whose Jewish population numbers only about 2,200, recorded 143 antisemitic incidents in the first six months of the year alone.
And as always, the blame is placed on the Jews.
The accusation itself has changed little over the decades. Joseph Goebbels insisted that...
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