Antisemitic assaults reached a record high in the US last year, Anti-Defamation League report says | CNN

Antisemitic physical assaults in the United States reached record highs in 2025 and included the first fatalities from antisemitic attacks on American soil since 2022, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual report. Two Israeli Embassy staff members were fatally shot last May outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, the first Jewish fatalities from antisemitic attacks on US soil since 2019. Just a month later, a man in Colorado firebombed an event organized by members of the Jewish community to bring attention to the Israeli hostages still in Gaza. An 82-year-old Jewish woman later died from her injuries. The last death tied to antisemitism was reported in 2022, when a University of Arizona professor, who was not Jewish, was killed by a graduate student who believed he was Jewish. Antisemitic physical assaults increased by 4% and assaults involving a deadly weapon went up by 39%, the ADL said. “The surge in physical assaults is a stark reminder that a historically high level of antisemitism puts Jewish lives at risk,” Oren Segal, ADL’s senior vice president for counter-extremism and intelligence, said in a news release. Overall antisemitic incidents dec