UK RECORDS LARGEST RISE IN ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS AMONG MAJOR DIASPORA NATIONS

The UK experienced the biggest increase in recorded antisemitic incidents in 2025 of any country with a major Jewish population outside Israel, according to a report by the J7 Large Communities' Task Force Against Antisemitism. Incidents in the UK rose by 5 per cent compared with 2024, making it one of only three countries where reported antisemitic incidents increased that year, alongside Argentina and Germany. The task force, representing the seven largest Jewish diaspora communities, found that antisemitism remained at record levels across all seven nations it examined: Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US.

Across these seven countries, which together are home to more than 90 per cent of the world's Jewish population outside Israel, reported antisemitic incidents have risen by 136 per cent since 2022, the year before the Hamas attacks on southern Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. Violent incidents across the seven nations have risen by 97 per cent over the same period. Whilst reported incidents fell in 2025 compared with 2024 in the US, Australia, Canada and France, every country remained significantly above levels recorded before 7 October 2023.

The task force recorded 2025 as the deadliest year for Jews living outside Israel in more than three decades. Twenty people were killed in antisemitic attacks across the seven countries, the highest annual death toll since the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. In the UK, Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed during an attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur. In Australia, 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed when gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney.