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The Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM recorded 554 antisemitic incidents worldwide in April 2025 — 88 of which occurred on a college or university campus, and 13 at a K-12 school.
With 2,126 incidents documented during the first four months of 2025, the ARC is on a pace to record 6,378 incidents this year — even higher than the 6,326 recorded in 2024, itself the most the ARC has ever captured in a one-year time frame.
Monthly incident counts since the beginning of 2025 have remained relatively stable, with the exception of February, which was noticeably lower in the aggregate and average count of incidents per day. February was the only full month of 2025 thus far during which the latest ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held, suggesting that antisemites exploit periods of fighting in Gaza to intensify their nefarious behavior.
The ARC’s April 2025 data is yet another indication that in the wake of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, the global surge in antisemitism has primarily manifested as incidents of hate speech motivated by anti-Israel sentiment and grounded in far-left ideology. Acts of antisemitic violence, even if fewer in quantity, also remain persistent threats. Several incidents recorded in April exemplify the enduring Israel-related antisemitism across the globe, including:
- In Pennsylvania, a man firebombed the governor’s mansion, later telling authorities that he targeted Governor Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, because he “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.” (Source)
- Students at 14 universities in Bangladesh held anti-Israel protests rife with hateful, antisemitic rhetoric, shouting “We Hate Israel” and “Jihad For Palestine From Bangladesh.” (Source)
- During the Coachella music festival in California, the Irish band Kneecap displayed a message reading “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. This is made possible by the US government, which arms and funds Israel despite its war crimes. F**k Israel. Free Palestine.” (Source)
- In the United Kingdom, Greenpeace activists were arrested after pouring blood-red dye into the pond at the U.S. embassy to protest support for “genocide” in Gaza, invoking the age-old blood libel. (Source)
As of 2025, the ARC classifies the incidents it records according to 18 broad geographic regions spanning the globe. Interested readers can view the country-level breakdown of the different regions HERE.
The below graph shows the 554 incidents documented in April categorized by each region.
Given that the ARC recorded only 7 incidents in South Asia in March, the 39 captured in South Asia in April — an increase of 457 percent — reflects a noteworthy trend. Of the 39 documented incidents, 35 occurred in Pakistan and Bangladesh, suggesting that a political environment of heightened ethnic and religious tensions is creating fertile ground for greater antisemitic activity.
