The FBI released official data Monday showing that 2025 was the third-highest year on record for hate crimes targeting Jews in the United States. According to the report, 1,528 anti-Jewish hate crime incidents were recorded nationwide, accounting for 63% of the 2,408 religiously motivated hate crimes documented across the country. Jews make up about 2% of the U.S. population.
FBI data also indicated that a Jewish person in the United States was about 190% more likely to be targeted in a hate crime than a Muslim person. By comparison, 233 anti-Muslim hate crimes were recorded in 2025, representing about 9% of religiously motivated hate crimes, while 130 incidents targeting Arabs were documented.
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The figures come despite a broader decline in violent crime across the United States. According to the FBI, 2025 saw the largest annual decrease in violent crime rates since the agency began collecting such data in 1936. Murder, manslaughter and robbery fell by about 18%, while aggravated assaults declined by 7%. The figures affecting the Jewish community, however, remained high.
Most anti-Jewish offenses involved property damage or vandalism. Law enforcement agencies also recorded 505 intimidation incidents and 162 assaults, including 50 aggravated assaults.
Three murders were also recorded. The most prominent case was the May 2025 killing of Israeli Embassy employees Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.
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The Anti-Defamation League noted that the total represented a decline from 2024, when a record 1,938 anti-Jewish hate crimes were recorded.
But ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said the figures remained deeply troubling. “Behind every one of these numbers is a person who was attacked simply because they were Jewish,” Greenblatt said. “In 2025, that hatred became deadly, not only here at home, but around the world.”
Greenblatt said 2025 was the deadliest year for Jews in the Diaspora in more than three decades, with 20 people killed worldwide solely because they were Jewish. He called on the Trump administration to take broader action to combat antisemitic violence.