Reports of antisemitic incidents spiked in 2024 amid campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
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After years of Republican lawmakers accusing universities of failing to address antisemitism on campus, new data shows that reported incidents of campus antisemitism declined in 2025 after spiking in 2023 and 2024.
The number of campus antisemitism incidents dropped from 1,694 in 2024—the height of student protests over the Israel-Hamas war—to 583 in 2025, according to an audit of antisemitic incidents in 2025 that the Anti-Defamation League published Wednesday. Specifically, antisemitic incidents related to “anti-Israel protests, including encampments” decreased by 83 percent in 2025 compared to the year prior. Reports of vandalism incidents dropped by 51 percent and assault incidents by 72 percent.
(The ADL’s audit has drawn some criticism for including “expressions of opposition to Zionism, as well as support for violent resistance against Israel or Zionists that could be perceived as supporting terrorism or attacks on Jews, Israelis or Zionists” in its definition of what constitutes an antisemitic incident. However, the audit contends that “ADL is careful to not conflate general criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism with antisemitism.”)
The decline in reports of campus antisemitism drove a larger national decline in antisemitic incidents last year—from 9,354 in 2024 to 6,274 in 2025, according to the ADL report. Despite that 33 percent drop, the latest antisemitic-incident numbers are still nearly twice as high as they were in 2022, before the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. And while antisemitic harassment decreased by 39 percent and vandalism by 21 percent, physical assaults against Jews saw a slight uptick—from 196 in 2024 to 203 in 2025.
The ADL attributed the recent decrease in campus antisemitism in part to universities punishing pro-Palestinian protesters and enacting more restrictive free speech policies in the wake of the 2024 protests.
“Efforts to address this activity appear to have had a meaningful impact, reducing not only the volume of antisemitic messaging on campuses, but also making those campuses safer for Jewish students and community members,” the report authors wrote. “But the threat of antisemitism on college campuses is far from gone.”
