Confirms an ‘alarming landscape of hatred and violence’
By Al Perrotta, The Daily Signal
On Sydney’s Bondi Beach last December, two gunmen opened fire on Jews gathered for the first night of Hanukkah, killing 15 and wounding more than 40. It was no random, isolated incident, an alarming new report says.
The year 2025 was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks since 1994 in the seven nations outside Israel that are home to the most Jews, according to the second annual report of the J7 Largest Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism. Twenty Jews in total were killed in Australia, Canada, Argentina, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.
Three of those murders occurred in the United States: Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, staff members of the Israeli Embassy, were shot to death at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May. Karen Diamond, an 82-year-old grandmother in Boulder, Colo., died in June after being attacked during a march supporting the Israeli hostages held by Hamas.