The Incident Record.
Banner image: the Great Synagogue of Vilna at prayer, drawn by Franciszek Smuglewicz around 1786. Ransacked by the Nazis in 1941 and razed by the Soviets in 1957, its floor and bimah were uncovered by excavators in 2026, seen for the first time since 1940. The excavation record: the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History. Artwork in the public domain.Read one page of it.
Eleven worshippers murdered at Shabbat (Sabbath) prayer in Pittsburgh. A Holocaust survivor stabbed and her apartment set alight in Paris. Two men shot on consecutive mornings leaving Los Angeles synagogues. Two congregants killed at their synagogue’s door on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Manchester. Jewish schoolchildren in Malmö urged by school staff to tone down their Jewish identity. In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors antisemitism, counted a record number of antisemitic incidents in each of the four years through 2024. In New York City in 2025, police recorded an anti-Jewish hate crime about every twenty-six hours. Each entry on this page ends with an official record: a verdict, a plea, or a government finding. Where a case is still open, the entry says it is pending.
What enters this record, and when.
An incident enters this page when it has an official record: a verdict, a guilty plea, a government finding, or an investigation’s published conclusion. Early reporting alone is not enough. The page is organized by the kind of act. Each entry names the motive as the investigating authority found it, and those motives differ from case to case. The entries are landmarks. They are not a census. In 2024 alone, the ADL counted 9,354 antisemitic incidents in the United States, more than twenty-five a day, a record for the fourth consecutive year. The running counts are kept by the monitors listed below. This page does not list every incident, or even every reported incident. The swastikas and graffiti that appear week after week on schools, buildings, cemeteries, and homes are counted in the thousands by the monitoring institutions, and most never reach a verdict or an official finding. The absence of an incident from this page says nothing about whether it happened. What counts as antisemitism is itself debated. Three working definitions answer the question, and the Contemporary Antisemitism Chapter sets them side by side. All three hold that criticism of Israel of the kind directed at any other country is not in itself antisemitic. They differ on how to classify anti-Zionism. The entries record what authorities concluded under the laws they enforce.
Where the running count is kept.
These institutions monitor incidents as they occur. Their methods differ, and each publishes its method.
The ADL Tracker.
The Anti-Defamation League’s running log of antisemitic incidents in the United States, updated as incidents are verified by its staff.
The tracker · ADL →The H.E.A.T. Map.
An interactive map of hate, extremism, antisemitism, and terrorism incidents by state.
The map · ADL →The Audit of Antisemitic Incidents.
The long-run American baseline: counts of harassment, vandalism, and assault, published yearly. Its counting method, including which Israel-related incidents it includes, is published and debated. The Contemporary Antisemitism Chapter treats the debate itself.
The audit · ADL →The AMCHA campus database.
Antisemitic activity on American college and university campuses, searchable from 2015 forward.
The database · AMCHA Initiative →The Community Security Trust.
Britain’s record of antisemitic incidents, kept by a Jewish community security charity and published in regular reports.
The reports · Community Security Trust →The European monitors.
The European record is kept country by country. The EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency surveys Jewish communities across the Union. RIAS, a German network of reporting offices, documents incidents in Germany, and the SPCJ, the security service of France’s Jewish community, keeps France’s count. In Italy, the CDEC Foundation’s Antisemitism Observatory logs incidents across the country.
The agency · EU Fundamental Rights Agency →FBI Hate Crime Statistics.
The United States government’s own count, reported by law enforcement agencies. It is slower than the monitors’ counts, and official.
The Crime Data Explorer · FBI →Home Office Hate Crime Statistics, England and Wales.
The British government’s count of hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales, published each autumn. The October 2026 edition counted 3,162 hate crimes targeting Jewish people because of their religion in the year ending March 2026, up 10 percent from 2,874 the year before.
The latest bulletin · Home Office →Murders, and armed attacks.
People murdered for being Jews, or murdered in attacks on Jewish targets. The organized-terror stream, from Munich in 1972 to October 7 and since, is kept on the Terror Record Chapter. This section keeps the murders around it, including one death after a confrontation at a street rally. The period it covers opened in 2000 and 2001. The monitors’ counts rose with the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising of 2000 to 2005. Within days of September 11, 2001, a false claim that Jews were behind the attacks was circulating. That lie is treated on the Misconceptions page, because it is a lie and not an incident. The entries here begin in Paris, with a murder France was slow to name as antisemitic and later did. Each entry ends with its record.
Paris: Sébastien Selam.
Sébastien Selam, a twenty-two-year-old DJ, was murdered in his building’s garage by a neighbor he had known since childhood, who told police he was pleased at the death of a Jew. The record, in two parts: the courts found the killer criminally irresponsible by reason of paranoid schizophrenia, and he was committed without trial. Fifteen years later, the President of France named the murder an antisemitic crime, which no court had done.
Paris: Ilan Halimi.
Ilan Halimi, a twenty-three-year-old phone-shop clerk, was lured, kidnapped, and tortured for twenty-four days by a gang whose leader chose a Jew in the belief that Jews have money. He was found burned near railway tracks and died on the way to the hospital. The record: the gang’s leader was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to life with a twenty-two-year minimum. Gang members were convicted alongside him.
Seattle: the Jewish Federation.
A gunman forced his way into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and shot six women, murdering Pamela Waechter, the federation’s annual-campaign director, as she fled down a stairwell. The record: convicted in 2009 of aggravated murder, attempted murder, and malicious harassment, the state’s hate-crime count, and sentenced in January 2010 to life without release.
Mumbai: Nariman House.
Among the sites the attackers in Mumbai, India, scouted and struck was the city’s Chabad center at Nariman House, a Jewish outreach and guest house. Six people were murdered there, including Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg. Their two-year-old son survived because his nanny carried him out. The record: the one surviving attacker was convicted and executed. An American who scouted the targets, the Jewish center among them, pleaded guilty in a US federal court and received thirty-five years.
Toulouse: the Ozar Hatorah school.
A gunman murdered a rabbi, his two small sons, and an eight-year-old girl at a Jewish day school in Toulouse, France, days after murdering three French soldiers. The attacker died in a police siege. The record: his brother was convicted of criminal terrorist conspiracy in 2017. On appeal in 2019, he was convicted of complicity in the murders and sentenced to thirty years.
Overland Park: the JCC and Village Shalom.
A lifelong white supremacist opened fire at the Jewish Community Center and a Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas, murdering three people. All three were Christians, killed at Jewish institutions the attacker chose because they were Jewish. The record: convicted of capital murder in August 2015 and sentenced to death that November. He died in prison in 2021.
Brussels: the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
A gunman murdered four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels: an Israeli couple, a French volunteer, and a Belgian employee. The record: the attacker, who had returned from fighting in Syria, was convicted of four terrorist murders in 2019 and sentenced to life. The accomplice who supplied his weapons received fifteen years.
Paris: the Hypercacher market.
Two days after the Charlie Hebdo murders, a gunman took hostages at a kosher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes and murdered four Jewish men. He told a journalist by phone that he had chosen the market because it was Jewish. The attacker died in the police assault. The record: on December 16, 2020, the Paris terrorism trial convicted all fourteen defendants charged with supplying the attackers.
Copenhagen: the Great Synagogue.
Hours after attacking a free-speech event, a gunman murdered Dan Uzan, a volunteer guard standing outside Copenhagen’s Great Synagogue during a bat mitzvah, a girl’s coming-of-age celebration. The attacker died in a police shootout. The record: in 2016 a Danish court acquitted four men of aiding the attacks, convicting two of them only of disposing of the weapon.
Paris: Sarah Halimi.
Sarah Halimi, a Jewish physician and teacher, was beaten in her Paris apartment by a neighbor shouting about God, and thrown from her window. The record: the courts recognized the antisemitic motive, then ruled the attacker’s drug-induced psychosis abolished criminal responsibility, and France changed its law in answer. The ruling, the protests, and the statute are kept on the Legal Record.
The verdict · on the Legal Record →Paris: Mireille Knoll.
Mireille Knoll, eighty-five, had escaped the Vel d’Hiv roundup as a child. She was stabbed and her apartment set alight by two men, one a neighbor she had known since his childhood. The record: in November 2021 a French court sentenced the killer to life with a twenty-two-year minimum, the second man to fifteen years, and named the antisemitic context in its ruling.
Pittsburgh: Tree of Life.
On a Shabbat morning, a gunman entered the Tree of Life building, where three congregations were at prayer, and murdered eleven worshippers: the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. His posts before the attack repeated the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which claims that Jews are engineering the replacement of white populations. The record: convicted on all sixty-three federal counts, including hate crimes resulting in death, and sentenced to death on August 3, 2023.
The case record · US Department of Justice → The verdict · on the Legal Record →Poway: Chabad of Poway.
On the last day of Passover, six months to the day after Pittsburgh, a gunman opened fire at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, murdering Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounding three, including the rabbi and a child. He had posted an antisemitic open letter online shortly before the attack. The record: guilty pleas in state and federal court, with life without parole in the state case and life plus thirty years in the federal one.
The sentencing · US Department of Justice →Halle: Yom Kippur.
A gunman tried to shoot his way into the synagogue in Halle, Germany, with more than fifty worshippers inside on Yom Kippur. The locked door held. He murdered two people nearby and broadcast the attack live. The record: a German court imposed its maximum, life with subsequent preventive detention, and named the antisemitic motive in the verdict.
The verdict · on the Legal Record →Jersey City: the kosher market.
Two attackers murdered a police detective, then drove to the JC Kosher Supermarket and murdered three people inside, exchanging fire with police for hours. Both died at the scene. The record: the state Attorney General and the FBI concluded the attackers were driven by hatred of Jews and law enforcement, and classified the attack as domestic terrorism.
Monsey: the Hanukkah attack.
A man with a machete attacked a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, wounding five. Josef Neumann, 72, never woke, and died of his wounds three months later. The record: a federal court found the attacker mentally incompetent to stand trial, and he is held at a state psychiatric center.
Colleyville: eleven hours in a synagogue.
A gunman took the rabbi and three congregants hostage during Shabbat services at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, demanding the release of a convicted terrorist. The hostages escaped after eleven hours, and the attacker was killed by the FBI’s hostage rescue team. The record: the FBI director called it an act of terrorism targeting the Jewish community.
The FBI director’s statement →Los Angeles: two mornings in Pico-Robertson.
Days after posting that it was time to kill all Jews, a man researched kosher markets, drove to the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, and on two consecutive mornings shot a man in a kippah leaving synagogue services. Both victims survived. The record: a federal guilty plea to hate crimes with intent to kill, and a thirty-five-year sentence in October 2024.
The sentencing · US Department of Justice →Thousand Oaks: the death of Paul Kessler.
Paul Kessler, sixty-nine, stood at a pro-Israel counter-demonstration in Thousand Oaks, near Los Angeles, and died of a head injury after a demonstrator from the opposing rally struck him. The record, stated in full: in May 2026 the defendant pleaded guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and battery causing serious injury. Over the District Attorney’s objection, he was sentenced to one year in county jail and probation. Prosecutors stated that they found no evidence he committed a hate crime, though antisemitic speech was heard at the rally from others.
The plea · Ventura County District Attorney →Washington: the Capital Jewish Museum.
A gunman murdered two young staff members of the Israeli Embassy, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, outside an American Jewish Committee reception at the Capital Jewish Museum. The record, while the case is pending: a thirteen-count federal indictment including terrorism and hate-crime charges. Prosecutors seek the death penalty, and the defendant has pleaded not guilty.
The indictment · US Department of Justice →Boulder: the hostage march.
A man firebombed a weekly walk for the hostages held in Gaza on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, injuring thirteen people. One of them, Karen Diamond, 82, died of her injuries weeks later. The record: guilty pleas to one hundred one state charges including first-degree murder, May 2026, and a life sentence with consecutive terms. On October 29, 2026, he pleaded guilty in federal court to twelve hate-crime charges, admitting he targeted the walkers because of their actual or perceived Israeli national origin and Jewish religion. Federal sentencing is set for January 7, 2027.
The federal plea · US Department of Justice →Manchester: Yom Kippur at Heaton Park.
On Yom Kippur, a man drove a car at the security staff and gates of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue and attacked with a knife. Two congregants were killed. The attacker stabbed Melvin Cravitz. Adrian Daulby was holding the synagogue doors shut when a police bullet fired at the attacker went through the doors and struck him. The attacker was shot dead by police. The record: Greater Manchester Police declared a terrorist incident within hours, and Counter Terrorism Policing’s case record is public and continuing. In July 2026, a close associate of the attacker was sentenced to life for preparing acts of terrorism. The two had scouted a military base together, and police said that in their messages they “frequently made antisemitic remarks.” Police also said there was no evidence he knew in advance of the synagogue attack. In August, a man was charged with failing to disclose information about the attack, and that case is pending. In September, the Chief Coroner said she would ask the government to replace the inquests with a public inquiry, so that intelligence material could be heard in closed session. On October 12, 2026, the Home Secretary agreed and announced a public inquiry into the two deaths.
The case record · Counter Terrorism Policing →The July sentence · Counter Terrorism Policing →The inquiry request · Jewish News →The inquiry announcement · GOV.UK →West Bloomfield, Michigan: Temple Israel.
A man drove a truck he had loaded with gasoline containers and fireworks into Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue the FBI described as the largest Jewish temple in Michigan, and exchanged fire with its security officers. The truck burned, and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot. A security officer was injured. No one else was killed. The record: on March 30, the FBI’s Detroit field office assessed the attack as “a Hizballah-inspired act of terrorism purposely targeting the Jewish community.” Its published timeline: an AR-style rifle and about 300 rounds bought on March 9, the search for “largest gathering of israelis in Michigan” on March 10, the synagogue’s event pages viewed again the day before the attack. With the attacker dead, there will be no trial, and the FBI’s finding is the record.
The findings · FBI Detroit → The attack · JTA →Belleville, Ontario: Yom Kippur at Sons of Jacob.
As the Sons of Jacob congregation gathered for the evening service that opens Yom Kippur, a gunman opened fire outside the synagogue. Police officers held him off in an exchange of fire, and Constable Jeff Smith, stationed outside to guard the synagogue, was shot multiple times and critically wounded. No one inside the synagogue was injured. The attacker, who carried gasoline and a large supply of ammunition, died of his wounds. The record: on September 24, Belleville’s police chief found it “a deliberate attack directed at members of the Jewish community during one of the holiest observances of the year.” With the attacker dead, there will be no trial, and the chief’s finding is the record.
The police finding · JTA → The attack · PBS News →Assaults and intimidation.
Street-level violence against identifiable Jews. In 2024 alone, the ADL audit counted 196 antisemitic assaults in the United States, with 250 victims, and 6,552 incidents of harassment. In New York City, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, the police department’s own tallies made Jews the most-targeted group in the city in 2024 and again in 2025. In 2025, anti-Jewish incidents outnumbered every other category combined, about one every twenty-six hours. In Toronto, police data made Jews, under three percent of the city, the target of eighty-two percent of religiously motivated hate crimes in 2025, the most-targeted group for the third straight year. In both cities, many attacks fall on the visibly Jewish: the kippah (the skullcap worn by observant Jewish men), the Hasidic coat. Entered here are landmark cases that ended in court. The count is kept by the monitors above. (ADL, Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2024; the city figures are the NYPD’s and the Toronto Police Service’s own.)
Marseille: the teacher on his way to school.
A fifteen-year-old with a machete attacked Benjamin Amsellem, a Jewish teacher walking to school in a kippah, and told police he acted for the Islamic State. The record: a French juvenile court convicted him in 2017 and sentenced him to seven years. The city’s Jewish leadership briefly debated whether wearing the kippah was still safe, and the debate was reported around the world.
Berlin: the belt attack.
A young Israeli wearing a kippah was lashed with a belt on a Berlin street by an attacker shouting “yahudi,” Jew, in an assault the victim recorded on his phone. The record: a Berlin court convicted the attacker, nineteen, of assault that June and imposed four weeks of juvenile detention, already served.
New York: the Times Square beating.
Joseph Borgen, wearing a kippah on his way to a rally, was surrounded, beaten, kicked, and pepper-sprayed in midtown Manhattan. The record: all five attackers were convicted or pleaded guilty, several to assault as a hate crime. Sentences ran to seven years, with the last imposed in December 2025.
New York: the surge’s first convictions.
Ten days after October 7, a man stalked five friends wearing kippahs near Times Square and punched one of them, shouting that more Jews should be killed. The record: a guilty plea to assault as a hate crime, with a sentence of ninety days and five years’ probation. The city’s police department logged sixty-nine antisemitic incidents that October, more than the two preceding months combined. This plea was among the first of the surge’s cases to conclude.
Amsterdam: the night of the chase.
After a Europa League match, coordinated groups chased and beat Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters through Amsterdam’s streets in attacks organized in chat groups that called them a hunt for Jews. Five were hospitalized. The record: the first five convictions came within seven weeks, with the court citing the premeditated, coordinated character of the violence.
The verdict · on the Legal Record →London: the school gate.
Children from a Jewish secondary school in north London were waiting at the school gate after a trip. A woman shouted antisemitic abuse at a mother holding her baby, then turned on the children. When the father of one of the children asked why she was targeting them, she struck him in the face and pulled his beard. The record: in July she was convicted of five racially aggravated offences, including assault. In August the court sentenced her to twelve months in prison, suspended for two years. The sentence was raised from eight months because the attack was a hate crime.
The conviction and sentence · Crown Prosecution Service →Vandalism, desecration, and graffiti.
Synagogues, cemeteries, schools, buildings, and homes, with swastika graffiti the form most people have seen with their own eyes. In 2024 alone, the ADL audit counted 2,606 incidents of antisemitic vandalism in the United States. Most graffiti is scrubbed away without an arrest. Entered here are landmark cases with concluded records, and the count is kept by the monitors above.
Carmel, Indiana: the synagogue wall.
Nazi flags and iron crosses were spray-painted on the grounds of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, with fires set beside them. The record: a federal guilty plea to conspiring to violate the congregation’s civil rights, and a three-year sentence in May 2019.
The sentencing · US Department of Justice →Austin: the synagogue arson.
A man set fire to the doors of Congregation Beth Israel in Austin, Texas. The record: a federal guilty plea to a hate crime and arson, and in November 2023, ten years in prison and $470,000 in restitution to the congregation.
The sentencing · US Department of Justice →The hostage posters.
In the weeks after October 7, posters of the kidnapped went up across Western cities, and people tearing them down were filmed again and again. Few tearings reached a courtroom. The concluded record: in Britain, a woman who removed a hostage poster from a memorial site was convicted of theft in February 2026 and given a conditional discharge. Hate-crime charges filed in New York over poster tearings are before the courts, and pending.
London: the Hatzola ambulances.
In the early hours, attackers set fire to four ambulances belonging to Hatzola, the Jewish volunteer emergency service, in Golders Green. Gas canisters inside them exploded, and nearby flats and a synagogue were damaged. The record: in August 2026, four young men pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to destroying property while reckless as to whether life would be endangered. Prosecutors said they believe it was a targeted attack against the Jewish community. Sentencing is set for spring 2027.
The pleas · The Jewish Chronicle →Inside the schools.
Antisemitism inside schools, in the United States and beyond, enters this page when a district, a state, a ministry, or a national investigation reaches an official conclusion. The scale is larger than any register. The ADL audit counted 860 antisemitic incidents in American K–12 schools in 2024 and 825 in 2025, and districts across the country log swastikas and Holocaust mockery week by week. The districts’ own mandated reporting is public through the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection. Its 2021–22 collection, the first to require religion-based counts, recorded roughly 2,700 allegations of religion-based harassment or bullying, thirty-nine percent involving Judaism. (The district-by-district data: civilrightsdata.ed.gov.) What Jewish teachers and professors have met at work enters under the findings section that follows, as each complaint concludes.
France: the Obin report.
The French Ministry of Education’s own inspectors, led by Jean-Pierre Obin, examined religious pressures inside the public schools and delivered a finding the ministry briefly shelved before it entered the public record. On Jewish students, the inspectors wrote what they had found: parents concealing their children’s identity from teachers and classmates, and a reality in which Jewish children, alone among French children, could no longer be schooled in just any institution.
Sweden: Malmö’s report on its own schools.
The city of Malmö commissioned its schools’ antisemitism coordinator to examine what Jewish students meet in its classrooms. The report was built on interviews with school staff and Jewish students. It documented that every Jewish student interviewed had experienced verbal or physical attack, and that “Jew” circulated as an insult. Staff described urging Jewish students to tone down their identity rather than confronting the abuse.
Delaware: the Red Clay resolution.
After a federal civil rights investigation into antisemitic bullying, the Red Clay Consolidated School District signed a resolution agreement with the Office for Civil Rights, the Education Department’s civil rights enforcement office. The agreement enforces Title VI, the 1964 law that bars discrimination in programs receiving federal money. The district agreed to annual harassment training for staff, a published anti-harassment statement, and an audit of past discrimination complaints. It also agreed to revise its investigation procedures and to report climate surveys back to the federal office.
Philadelphia: the district-wide audit.
A federal complaint documented repeated antisemitic harassment and bullying in the School District of Philadelphia. In response, the district signed a resolution agreement with the Office for Civil Rights. It agreed to audit every school serving grades six to twelve for compliance with the rules that protect students from discrimination based on shared ancestry.
The resolution · complaint record →Maryland: Howard County’s own count.
A federal civil rights investigation found that the Howard County Public School System had been told of at least 28 antisemitic incidents at 16 schools over two school years. It had not considered whether they created a hostile environment for Jewish students. The incidents included swastikas, Nazi salutes, threats to kill Jews, and a middle school student told to “go back to the gas chamber.” The district signed a resolution agreement with the Office for Civil Rights. It agreed to issue an anti-harassment statement, revise its policies, train all staff every year, and run programs for middle and high school students. It also agreed to assess the climate in its middle and high schools and review how it handled the past incidents.
The findings · WMAR-2 News →Maryland: the Baltimore complaint.
A federal Title VI complaint against the Baltimore City Public Schools documented the schoolyard forms that annual counts do not show. It described Nazi salutes on the playground, Jewish students told that six million was not enough, and a teacher directing Nazi salutes at a Jewish student. A bullied child was offered a support plan that included “lunch away from peers.” According to the complaint, the district’s own inquiry confirmed the teacher’s misconduct, and no discipline followed. The Department of Education opened its investigation on August 7, 2025. An investigation is not a finding.
The announcement · US Department of Education →Massachusetts: the Concord-Carlisle settlement.
Between 2023 and 2025, swastikas were drawn repeatedly in the Concord-Carlisle district’s middle and high schools, and “Jew” was used as a slur against Jewish students. The district then signed a settlement with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. It agreed to revise its harassment policies, investigate every incident promptly and fully, protect students from retaliation, and make safety plans for targeted students. It also agreed to train staff and students, designate a compliance officer, and report publicly on its efforts.
The settlement · US Department of Justice →New York: the investigation of the largest district.
The US Department of Education opened a Title VI investigation into the New York City public schools, the nation’s largest district, citing teacher-organized seminars that taught children, in the seminars’ own words, that Zionists are genocidal white supremacists. An investigation is not a finding.
The announcement · US Department of Education →Florida: the Bay County investigation.
The Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into the Bay County School District over claims that it knew of antisemitic harassment and failed to stop it. The claims include stereotypes and conspiracy theories about Jews, swastikas drawn in textbooks and across campuses, and a class presentation in which students gave Nazi salutes while mockingly wearing yarmulkes. An investigation is not a finding.
The investigation · U.S. Department of Education →California: the Sequoia Union settlement.
Six Jewish families sued the Sequoia Union High School District in federal court in November 2024. Their complaint documented two swastikas etched into the pavement at Woodside High School, a substitute teacher’s Holocaust jokes, and a classmate’s wish that Hamas would kill a student’s whole family. Staff, it said, had advised Jewish students to hide a Star of David. The district settled without admitting liability. It agreed to pay $325,000, to name antisemitism in district policy as a prohibited form of discrimination, and to train every staff member who works with students each year. It agreed to teach at least one lesson on antisemitism in every World History class from the 2026–27 school year, and to have an independent attorney review supplementary materials on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before use. The families’ original complaints will be investigated afresh by an outside attorney, with written findings, and a neutral monitor will oversee compliance for three years. A settlement is an agreement, not a finding.
The settlement terms · J. The Jewish News of Northern California → The agreement · The Almanac →California: the state rules on Berkeley’s classrooms.
Twice in one August week, the California Department of Education concluded that Berkeley Unified had discriminated against Jewish students. Classroom posters declaring an Israeli genocide created a discriminatory classroom environment, the state found, reversing the district’s own dismissal of the complaint. A middle-school assembly, with a map omitting Israel and chants the staff let recur, also unlawfully discriminated on the basis of a protected characteristic, the state found. It ordered teacher training, a schoolwide lesson, and a new assembly-review policy.
The state’s decision →California: the Etiwanda investigation.
The Department of Education opened a Title VI investigation into the Etiwanda School District after a complaint about a seventh-grade Jewish student. The complaint says a classmate beat her and choked her against a table, and that she was told with an antisemitic insult to shut up when she called for help. It says classmates gave Nazi salutes in the hallways. A peer later told her, “This wouldn’t be an issue if you weren’t Jewish.” An investigation is not a finding.
The investigation · EdSource → The complaint · ADL →Colorado: the Boulder Valley settlement.
In June 2026 the ADL filed a Title VI complaint documenting repeated antisemitic bullying, slurs, and physical assault of a Jewish middle school student, reported to the district again and again. In September the Boulder Valley School District reached a settlement through mediation with the Office for Civil Rights. The district agreed to name a Title VI executive director, and to publish an antisemitism page with the definition it will use when it investigates complaints. It will report publicly on incidents and outcomes each year for three years, train every administrator, teacher, and staff member on antisemitism, and give students age-appropriate programming on discrimination. The complaint was withdrawn as part of the agreement. A mediated settlement is not a finding, and the entry says so.
The agreement · ADL → The district’s statement · Boulder Valley School District →England: the Bell Review.
In March 2026 the Department for Education asked Sir David Bell, a former chief inspector of schools, to review how England’s schools and colleges identify, respond to, and prevent antisemitism. His report drew on a national call for evidence and a commissioned survey of sixth-form and college students. It found that almost three in five Jewish respondents aged 16 to 19 had experienced or witnessed antisemitism, and called the problem a significant and growing challenge. The report cautions that only 92 of its more than 5,000 respondents identified as Jewish, and that the survey is not representative. It made 27 recommendations, among them encouraging schools to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, antisemitism training for school leaders and safeguarding staff, teaching modern Jewish life in religious education, and stronger guidance on political impartiality. The government accepted all 27 on the day the report was published, and commissioned a one-year review of progress.
The report · Department for Education → The government’s response · Department for Education →Philadelphia: a congressional report on the district.
The majority staff of the House Committee on Education and Workforce issued a report on antisemitism in the School District of Philadelphia, Berkeley Unified, and the National Education Association. It documented a Philadelphia world history unit that directed students to “honor” a resistance movement of their choice, with the Great March of Return, a Hamas-backed campaign, listed as one option. In September the district had told the committee that its teachers and administrators would no longer write the social studies curriculum, which it would standardize. The district disputed the report, objecting to what it called its “blatantly partisan framing.”
The report · House Committee on Education and Workforce → The district’s response · NBC10 Philadelphia →Speech, when it entered public life.
This section holds official findings about antisemitism inside public institutions: investigations concluded, reports published, resolutions signed. The earlier history of antisemitism in public life, including Vienna’s antisemitic mayor Karl Lueger, who took office in 1897, is traced in the Racial Turn Chapter.
Britain: the EHRC finding on the Labour Party.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission, Britain’s statutory equality regulator, concluded a formal investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party and found the party responsible for unlawful acts: political interference in antisemitism complaints, failure to train complaint handlers, and harassment. It served the party with an unlawful act notice, the first against a major British party. The full report is public.
The report · EHRC →New York: the EEOC finding at CUNY.
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal workplace-discrimination agency, found reasonable cause to believe that Jewish faculty at Kingsborough Community College, a City University of New York campus, had been discriminated and retaliated against because of their religion. The 2019 complaint behind it said a faculty group had scheduled meetings on the Sabbath in a way that kept observant Jewish colleagues away. A reasonable-cause determination is an official federal finding. It is not a court verdict. Jewish professors have since brought related lawsuits against the university and its faculty union.
The American campus record.
The congressional hearing of December 5, 2023, the committee findings that followed, and the resolution agreements universities signed are kept, entry by entry, on the Legal Record’s Since October 7 section.
The campus record · on the Legal Record →The universities’ own findings.
The task forces that universities convened after October 7 published findings about their own campuses: Columbia’s task force reported in 2024, Stanford’s the same year, and Harvard’s in 2025. Each found antisemitism on its campus, and each report is public on its university’s site.
Columbia · JTA → Stanford · JTA → Harvard’s report →The funding record.
American universities report large foreign gifts and contracts to the Department of Education under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act. In those disclosures, Qatar ranks as the largest foreign funder of American universities. In March 2026 the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released nearly nine hundred pages of contracts between universities and Qatar. Whether such funding shapes campus life is debated. The record is treated in the funding section of the Eastward Turn Chapter, with the Department’s disclosure portal and the committee’s releases linked there.
Psychology: a congressional report on the American Psychological Association.
The majority staff of the House Committee on Education and Workforce published a report finding that leaders of the American Psychological Association, the nation’s leading professional organization for psychologists, “repeatedly failed to confront antisemitism within their own organization.” Drawing on the association’s internal emails, it quoted a senior communications official who, in the spring of 2025, wrote of “the Jews who are so angry at us.” The association’s president answered that it “unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all its forms” and said, “We don’t agree with the report.” In September, the Education Department’s accreditation advisory committee had recommended suspending, for twelve months, federal recognition of the association’s commission that accredits more than 1,300 psychology programs. The association rejects the recommendation, and the Department has not yet ruled.
The report · House Committee on Education and Workforce → The association’s response · The Philadelphia Inquirer → The accreditation recommendation · American Psychological Association →The rule, kept.
Some widely reported incidents are absent because their official record is not yet made. Where an investigation established a motive other than the targeting of Jews, the incident is not entered, whatever the early reporting said.
Every entry above ends with a document: a verdict, a plea, or a finding, or, for a pending case, a charge or an opened investigation. The organized-terror stream is kept on the Terror Record Chapter, the laws and rulings on the Legal Record, and the lies, from the Protocols to September 11, on the Misconceptions page.
The Terror Record → The Legal Record → Contemporary Antisemitism →Last updated: November 2026.

