Incidents in North Carolina in 2025 are still up 638% from five years ago RALEIGH, N.C., May 6, 2026, … North Carolina recorded a significant decrease in antisemitic incidents in 2025, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today. The state reported 96 incidents, which is a 45-percent decline from the 175 incidents recorded in 2024, outpacing the national one-year decrease of 33 percent. “North Carolina saw meaningful…
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State ranks #5 nationally; 281 incidents recorded in 2025 PHILADELPHIA, May 6, 2026, … Pennsylvania recorded 281 antisemitic incidents in 2025, a 40-percent decrease from 465 incidents in 2024, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today. The significant reduction in campus incidents contributed to the overall decrease. Pennsylvania ranked #5 in the United States for total antisemitic incidents and in the top 10 nationally…
The region also experienced the first fatalities on American soil due to antisemitism since 2022. WASHINGTON, May 6, 2026, …The District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia recorded significant decreases in antisemitic incidents in 2025, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today. Specifically, the District of Columbia saw an 18-percent decrease (124 incidents), Maryland saw a 49-percent decrease (181 incidents), and…
ADL Ohio River Valley partners with local leaders, law enforcement and higher education institutions to reduce antisemitic incidents CLEVELAND, May 6, 2026, … Antisemitic incidents across the Ohio River Valley dropped sharply in 2025, falling 47 percent from 394 incidents in 2024 to 209, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today. The Ohio River Valley region (which includes Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and western…
New York, NY, May 6, 2026, … The year 2025 marked one of the most violent periods for American Jews, with physical assaults reaching record high levels and antisemitic attacks resulting in fatalities on American soil for the first time since 2022 and in Jewish fatalities for the first time since 2019, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today. There were 6,274 incidents of antisemitic assault, harassment and…
New ADL Data Reveals Rise In Vandalism And Physical Assaults in Florida, Even as Overall Incident Totals Decline Boca Raton, FL, May 6, 2026 … The 2025 ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today, highlights that while overall nationwide totals of antisemitic incidents decreased, 2025 marked a particularly violent year for the Jewish community. While Florida experienced a drop in antisemitic incidents, the pace of that decline lagged behind national…
An Anti-Defamation League Report Download the whole report Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2016 (PDF).
One word looms over the landscape of deadly extremism and terrorism in the United States in 2016: Orlando.
The June 2016 shooting spree at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, by Omar Mateen—who killed 49 people and wounded 53 more—dwarfed in its lethality all other extremist-related murders this past year.
Mateen, who…
ADL continues to receive a troubling number of complaints about children, adolescents and teenagers engaging in anti-Semitic behavior, both on and off school grounds. These incidents include physical assaults, threats of violence, and verbal and written taunts promoting anti-Semitic stereotypes or evoking disturbing Holocaust themes. The following is a list of selected incidents in 2015 that represent anti-Semitic bullying of children, adolescents and teenagers by their peers:
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Read the full report here: Tattered Robes: The State of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States (PDF).
Despite a persistent ability to attract media attention, organized Ku Klux Klan groups are actually continuing a long-term trend of decline. They remain a collection of mostly small, disjointed groups that continually change in name and leadership. Down slightly from a year ago, there are currently just over thirty active Klan groups in the United States, most of them very small. However,…
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 in a year marked by a violent anti-Semitic shooting attack targeting Jewish community buildings in Kansas and anti-Jewish expressions linked to the war in Gaza.
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents counted a total of 912 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. during the 2014 calendar year. This represents a 21 percent increase from the 751 incidents…
The White Power Music Scene in the United States For Law Enforcement Read the full, comprehensive report, The Sounds of Hate: The White Power Music Scene in the United States in 2012 (PDF).
The recent tragic shooting spree at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in which Wade Michael Page killed six people before killing himself after a shootout with police, has drawn attention to the shadowy world of white power music. Page, a committed white supremacist and member of the…
Business targeting surges; state ranked #9 for K-12 incidents Bridgeport, CT, May 6, 2026, … Connecticut recorded 126 antisemitic incidents in 2025, a staggering 270-percent increase from the 34 incidents recorded in 2021, according to ADL's (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today. While incidents in Connecticut declined 21 percent from 2024 to 2025, this is less than the national 33-percent decrease, and the five-year trend reveals that…
Read the full report here: New Black Panther Party for Self Defense (PDF).
The New Black Panther Party for Self Defense (NBPP) is the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist Black militant group in America. Since October 2013, Hashim Nzinga, who previously served as the group’s Chief of Staff, has led the group.
By taking on racially-charged issues, the NBPP has received national media attention for its efforts, garnered some support from prominent members of the…
First regional decrease since October 7, 2023; K-12 incidents remain a growing concern BOSTON, May 6, 2026, … ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, issued today, recorded a total of 400 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism in 2025 within the New England region (covering Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont). While this marks the first regional decrease since October 7, 2023, the total remains nearly…
Read the full, comprehensive report: Anti-Semitism at UC Irvine (PDF).
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has become a center for anti-Semitic activity in recent years. Much of this activity has been organized by the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a vocal student group at UCI, which is responsible for staging large events every spring featuring virulently anti-Semitic speakers.
In July 2010, the MSU was suspended for one year because of its involvement in disrupting a speech by…
For Law Enforcement This document is an archived copy of an older ADL report and may not reflect the most current facts or developments related to its subject matter. Y2K and the Apocalypse
The year 2000, the start of a new millennium, is fast approaching. For certain religious groups that believe in an apocalyptic vision of the "End Times," this dramatic turn of the century signals tremendous upheaval in the world, a period when chaos will prevail. In particular, a small number of…
The Issue
The university has traditionally served as an enclave for intellectual expression, insulated from the distractions of the world outside. It has also served as a trendsetter for that outside society, a laboratory where social change first begins to ferment and find an outlet. To a large extent, the excitement and passion on American campuses stem from the combination of scholarly debate and student activism in a sheltered environment.
In recent decades, Jews have generally…
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is alarmed by a sharp escalation in disruptive and exclusionary activity on college campuses as the 2025-26 academic year comes to a close. While anti-Israel encampments have resurfaced (and were subsequently dismantled) at institutions such as Occidental College and Smith College, they represent just one aspect of a broader and concerning trend. Across campuses, traditionally unifying spaces and events are increasingly being used for divisive or politicized…
New York accounted for 44 percent of all antisemitic assaults recorded nationally in 2025; 85 of the state’s 90 assaults occurred in New York City NEW YORK, May 6, 2026, … New York State saw 1,160 reported antisemitic incidents in 2025, marking a 19-percent decline compared to the previous year, according to ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today. The decline, however, tells only part of the story. New York led the…