Antisemitic Incidents In Florida Decline, But Vandalism And Assault Reach Record Levels In 2025

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 trends.

Nationally, there were 6,274 antisemitic incidents in 2025, an average of 17 per day. This represents a 33-percent overall decrease from 2024. In Florida, there were 319 incidents, representing a 9.6% decrease over the previous year.

Both U.S. and Florida totals remain considerably higher than incident totals recorded before Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. This was the third-highest year for antisemitic incidents (after 2023 and 2024) in the state and nationally, since ADL began tracking such data in 1979.

“The Jewish community has shown profound resilience in the face of this wave of antisemitic incidents,” according to ADL Florida Regional Director Daniel Frank. “We thank government officials, law enforcement, allies, and others who have gone to great lengths to protect Florida’s Jewish community. We urge leaders to support increased security funding for synagogues, Jewish schools, and institutions at this crucial time.”

Florida ranked second in the U.S. in antisemitic incidents targeting personal residences, and third in incidents targeting a Jewish institution or school. Even as overall incidents decreased statewide, ADL recorded more incidents of vandalism (98) and physical assault (10) in Florida than at any other time over the past decade.

Reflecting on the national landscape, ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said, “Our 2025 Audit, which shows it was one of the most violent years for American Jews on record, is a reminder of how dramatically the threat landscape has shifted. Numbers that would have shocked us five years ago are now our floor.” ADL will not stop until that baseline changes.”

Main Findings

FLORIDA

• Assaults: A record of 10 incidents, up from six in 2024 and the previous record of seven in 2023.
  • A teacher was assaulted on their way to a Jewish school, called a "dirty Jew," spat in her face, and struck on the head (Miami-Dade County)
  • An individual threatened to detonate himself near a synagogue on the Sabbath and assaulted intervening officers (Miami-Dade County)
  • An individual struck an employee of a Jewish organization and attacked him with a sharp object after shouting "Get out of here, you f-ing Jews" and "We came to America and still have to deal with you f-ing Jews“ (Sarasota County)
     
• Vandalism: A record of 98 incidents of vandalism, up 78.18% over 2024 and 21% above the previous record of 81 set in 2023.
  • A cemetery was vandalized with swastikas (Broward County)
  • Chabad of Charlotte County was set ablaze right before Rosh Hashanah. The suspect reportedly hated homosexuals and Jews. (Charlotte County)
  • A yellow Star of David was spray-painted in front of a home. (Broward County)
  • An individual’s apartment door was vandalized with “BITCH DIE JEW”
     
• Harassment: 28% decrease (292 in 2024 vs. 211 in 2025).
• An individual shouted, "F Jews," out their window while driving by a Jewish family walking home from synagogue. (Pasco County)
• An individual wore a shirt at a gym that read: "Kill the Jews every f-ing day.” (Collier County)

NATIONWIDE

• Assaults: 203 incidents were categorized as assault, an increase of 4 percent compared to 2024 (196 incidents). 
  • Incidents of assault involving a deadly weapon increased to 32 in 2025 from 23 in 2024.
  • At least 300 people were victimized by incidents of assault. It was the first year since 2019 during which Jewish people were murdered in the United States in antisemitic attacks. 
• Vandalism: 2,068 incidents (a 21-percent decrease from 2024) were categorized as vandalism.
• Harassment: 4,003 incidents (a 39-percent decrease from 2024) were categorized as harassment.
• Geographic Reach: Antisemitic incidents occurred in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The states with the highest levels of incidents were New York (1,160), California (817) and New Jersey (687).

“Behind every one of these incidents is a real person: a family threatened at their synagogue, a rabbi attacked on the street, a student harassed on campus,” said Oren Segal, ADL Senior Vice President for Counter-Extremism and Intelligence. “2025 brought some of the most violent antisemitic attacks in recent memory. Even as overall incidents declined, the surge in physical assaults is a stark reminder that a historically high level of antisemitism puts Jewish lives at risk. The safety of Jewish communities depends on our collective willingness to meet this moment with urgency, which is what we are doing every day at ADL.”
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A Notable Decrease in Overall Incidents and Yet, No American Community is Spared

Incidents at K-12 Schools Remain Stable
Unlike most other locations, incidents at non-Jewish K-12 schools remained almost similar in 2025 (825) compared to 2024 (860). While incidents at other types of locations are more often driven by organized group activity, both from the anti-Israel and white supremacist spaces, at K-12 schools, most incidents involve individual, peer-to-peer behavior, such as antisemitic harassment or students vandalizing classrooms with swastikas. ADL’s litigation team has been pursuing several cases against K-12 schools, including against the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District, which recently came to a close with the school district agreeing to take steps to address antisemitism.

Factors that explain the decrease in antisemitic incidents in 2025:  

• Incidents on college and university campuses saw the steepest decline of any location type, in part due to colleges addressing antisemitism on their campuses. In 2025, ADL recorded 583 antisemitic incidents on college campuses, which is 66 percent lower than in 2024 (1,694 incidents).
   
  • Combating campus antisemitism is a major priority for ADL. Since its 2024 launch, ADL's Campus Antisemitism Report Card has driven meaningful progress in how colleges address antisemitism, with the share of schools earning A and B grades rising significantly in 2026 as universities increasingly adopt ADL-recommended policies. But the threat of antisemitism on college campuses is far from gone; incidents remained almost three times higher in 2025 than in 2021.  ADL also filed several Title VI lawsuits and reached a settlement in a complaint against Pomona College -- putting additional pressure on campuses to adopt meaningful reforms in response to the threat of litigation.
     
• In 2025, 45 percent of all incidents (2,847 incidents) were related to Israel or Zionism. This is a lower rate than in 2024, when 58 percent of antisemitic incidents were Israel-related. Anti-Israel rallies featuring extreme anti-Israel rhetoric that crossed the line into antisemitism also decreased significantly – 67 percent overall and 83 percent on college campuses.
   
• There was also a nearly 50-percent drop in white supremacist propaganda distribution.

Methodology

The ADL Audit includes both criminal and non-criminal acts of harassment, vandalism and assault against individuals and groups as reported to ADL by victims, law enforcement, the media and partner organizations and evaluated by ADL's experts.

The complete dataset for antisemitic incidents for 2016-2025 is available on ADL's H.E.A.T. Map, an interactive online tool that allows users to geographically chart antisemitic incidents and extremist activity. The full dataset can also be downloaded by anyone who would like to take a closer look at individual incidents.

ADL is careful to not conflate general criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism with antisemitism. Legitimate political protest, support for Palestinian rights or expressions of opposition to Israeli policies is not included in the Audit. As an example, slightly fewer than half of anti-Israel rallies assessed by ADL contained antisemitic content that qualified to be counted within this Audit. ADL's approach to Israel-related expressions comports with the IHRA definition of antisemitism. The complete Audit methodology is included in the report on our website.

The Audit offers a snapshot of one of the ways American Jews encounter antisemitism, but a full understanding of antisemitism in the U.S. requires other forms of analysis as well, including public opinion polling, assessments of online antisemitism and examinations of extremist activity, all of which ADL offers in other reports.