The ‘New Normal’ of Antisemitism

The finding by a major new survey of antisemitism across the globe that the world’s oldest hate is the “new normal” makes for sobering reading. The dispatch from the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, which covers some 90 percent of the Jewish diaspora, finds that 2025 was the deadliest year for antisemitic violence outside of Israel since 1994. Last year, the task force tallied more than 23,000 antisemitic incidents worldwide.“The normalization of antisemitism is not a metaphor; it is a measurable and documented phenomenon” is how the report sounds the alarm on the swiftly deteriorating circumstances for Jews. The number of antisemitic incidents is up 136 percent — and violent incidents are up 97 percent — compared to the baseline year of 2022. A dip in antisemitism in America since 2024 could be attributed to the winding down of the campus encampments.Especially salient is how the report surfaces the blurring of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Animus toward Jews manifested as antagonism toward Israel in 45 percent of incidents in America and 48 percent in the United Kingdom. Britain saw a five percent rise in such incidents in 2025, the steepest increase for any country that was canvassed. Last year, two Jews were killed by a jihadist at a Manchester Synagogue on Yom Kippur.That antisemitism “is not a metaphor” was also bloodily borne out by the massacring on Hanukkah of 15 people at Bondi Beach as well as the murderous attacks at the Capital Jewish Museum and Boulder. All the more alarming to see Mayor Zohran Mamdani engage in the demonization of Israel that is so often prelude to violence. The day after his video heaping invective on Prime Minister Netanyahu, a Jewish man was stabbed with a screwdriver. The report also highlights growing antisemitism in Germany, where despite decades of effort to combat prejudice a “confluence of far-right ethno-nationalism, left-wing anti-Zionism, and Islamist extremism simultaneously” is fueling a resurgence. The country has the highest ratio of antisemitic incidents per capita among all the nations surveyed. That suggests that Berlin’s support for Israel could soon come under strain. The tools of the future also look to be contaminated with the prejudice of the past. The report emphasizes how the digital dimension has become the “primary arena of antisemitic expression,” fueled by the “weaponization of artificial intelligence to generate, amplify, and disseminate antisemitic content at scale.” In another baleful indicator, “AI video tools produced antisemitic outputs at least 40% of the time when tested.”For proof of antisemitism’s strides, look no further than the transformations roiling the Democratic Party, members of which are rapidly turning against the Jewish state — and in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s case, seeking to arrest its leader. The genocide slander and the demonization of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have been powerful in primaries. The next crop of Democratic solons appears set to mark a new low — and “normal.”

The ‘New Normal’ of Antisemitism

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