Jews were the target of 1,528 hate crime incidents in the United States in 2025, according to FBI data released this week, accounting for 63 percent of all religion-based hate crimes reported nationwide despite making up roughly two percent of the American population.
The figures place Jews seven times ahead of the next most targeted religious group, Muslims, who were the victims of 205 hate crime incidents last year. Black Americans were the most targeted group overall, with 2,811 hate crimes recorded against them, though the FBI noted the Black population in the US is roughly six times the size of the Jewish population.
Overall hate crime incidents in the United States fell from 11,679 in 2024 to 10,881 in 2025, a decline the FBI attributed to a broader drop in violent crime. Anti-Jewish hate crimes fell alongside that trend, dropping 21 percent from a record 1,938 incidents in 2024. Even with that decline, 2025 was the third-highest year for anti-Jewish hate crimes on record, and the total still worked out to an antisemitic hate crime somewhere in America every six hours.
Vandalism and property destruction were the most common anti-Jewish offense, with 920 such incidents recorded. Law enforcement also documented 162 anti-Jewish assaults and three murders. The killings took place in Washington, DC, and Boulder, Colorado. The Washington attack, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in May 2025, left two people dead; federal authorities charged Elias Rodriguez, who published a manifesto hours before the shooting describing the killings as legitimate protest.
The FBI’s data draws on reports from law enforcement agencies across the country. Participation improved in 2025, with 16,791 agencies representing 85.9 percent of those enrolled in the hate crime reporting program submitting data, up from 84.9 percent the year before. Roughly 95 percent of the US population was covered by participating agencies.
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said the decline in raw numbers should not be mistaken for improvement. “Behind every one of these numbers is a person who was targeted simply for being Jewish, whether through vandalism, intimidation, or violence,” Greenblatt said. “We cannot allow a modest yet positive decline in the topline domestic numbers to obscure the reality that antisemitism remains one of the most persistent and dangerous forms of hate in this country and beyond.”
Greenblatt noted that 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks in the Jewish diaspora in more than three decades, with 20 people murdered worldwide simply for being Jewish. The ADL’s own tracking, which counts non-criminal incidents such as harassment alongside criminal offenses, recorded 6,274 antisemitic incidents in the US in 2025 — a 33 percent drop from the prior year but still the third-highest total since the organization began tracking such data in 1979.
Carla Hill, Vice President of Research and Investigations at the ADL Center on Extremism, said the damage from these crimes extends well beyond the individuals attacked. “Hate crimes are deeply personal, harmful, and traumatizing, not only for the individual targeted, but for the entire community,” Hill said. She called for a “whole-of-government, whole-of-society response that centers victims and the needs of those impacted.”
The ADL is pressing Congress to pass the Improved Reporting to Prevent Hate Act, a bipartisan bill that would tie federal funding eligibility to credible hate crime reporting by law enforcement agencies.
The wave of antisemitic hate crimes tracked by the FBI began surging after the Hamas terrorist organization’s October 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel, an attack that ignited the war in Gaza and set off a corresponding spike in antisemitic incidents across the United States and much of the Western world. Two years later, the numbers released this week make clear that the spike has not receded to pre-war levels — and that American Jews remain, by a wide margin, the most targeted religious group in the country.
A note on sourcing: I don’t have live access to the FBI or ADL databases, so I pulled these figures directly from the materials you provided rather than verifying them independently — worth double-checking the exact numbers against the original FBI report and ADL release before publication, since the two sources in your documents show slightly different topline totals (63% vs. 64%, for instance).
