TAU releases annual global annual report on antisemitism
TAU report warns other nations to heed Australia’s ‘alarming’ rise in antisemitism, with 1750 incidents in 2025.
Other countries should learn from Australia’s mistakes and combat antisemitism decisively before tragedy befalls them, Tel Aviv University’s (TAU’s) annual global antisemitism report has warned.
The report, released on Monday, described Australia’s data as “particularly alarming”, with 1750 incidents recorded in 2025 — up from 1,727 in 2024, 1200 in 2023 and 472 in 2022.
“Last year, our report highlighted the dire state of the fight against antisemitism in Australia, and cautioned about its implications,” the report stated.
“This was no prophecy, nor a wild guess. Where minor attacks are dismissed, major ones will ultimately follow, in one way or another.”
Executive Council of Australian Jewry research director Julie Nathan told TAU the Jewish community had been “shocked but not surprised” by the December 14, 2025 Bondi Beach massacre, in which 15 people were murdered.
“Many of us knew that Jewish blood would be shed and lives lost; it was only a matter of when, where and how many,” Nathan said.
“It was a culmination of more than two years of vilification and demonisation of Jews and Israel, and of incitement and increasing violence against Jews.”
Nathan said that even after the massacre, the Prime Minister and federal government “still appeared to grapple with what antisemitism is, what the Jewish community is facing, and the threats it poses to Australian society”.
“Australian Jews justifiably have, until more recently, felt abandoned and betrayed by our federal government, and so too do many other Australians who are disgusted with the antisemitism and angry with the unravelling of Australian society,” she said.
In a special essay for the report titled “The Road to Bondi Beach and Beyond”, Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal charted how Sydney’s three iconic locations – the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Bondi Beach – became what she described as “a pilgrimage of antisemitism”.
Segal said the failure of police and the NSW government to prevent and immediately condemn the October 9, 2023 rally at the Sydney Opera House “emboldened others”.
Globally, Canada recorded 6800 incidents, more than three times higher than in 2022. Britain recorded 3700 incidents, while France saw 1320 incidents with a rise in physical violence.
In the United States, incidents increased in New York in the two months immediately following the swearing in of antizionist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Report editor-in-chief Professor Uriya Shavit said the data raised concern that “a high level of antisemitic incidents is becoming a normalised reality”.