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 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 in Manchester. Schoolchildren in Malmö advised by their own teachers to hide that they are Jews. In the United States, a record number of incidents in each of the four years through 2024, by then more than twenty-five a day; in New York in 2025, an anti-Jewish hate crime every twenty-six hours. Every sentence in this paragraph, and every entry on this page, ends the same way: in a verdict, a plea, or an official finding. That is what makes it teachable, and impossible to wave away. If most of this page is news to you, that is the reason it exists.
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. Headlines wait; documents enter. Cases still before the courts are listed as pending, and say so. The organizing principle is the kind of act, not the politics of the actor: the record itself names each motive as the investigating authority found it, and the reader will notice that the motives differ while the targets do not. The entries are landmarks, 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 census lives with the trackers below; this page keeps the cases whose concluded records teach. Said plainly: this page does not, and could 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 produce the concluded record this register requires. The absence of an incident from this page says nothing about whether it happened. What counts as antisemitism is itself a documented question: three scholarly frameworks answer it, and the Contemporary Antisemitism Chapter sets them side by side, where they agree, that criticism of Israel is ordinary political speech, and where they differ, on how to classify anti-Zionism. This page does not adjudicate the frameworks; it enters what authorities concluded under the laws they enforce, and readers will notice how often the words in those records say Zionist while the findings say Jews. Updated quarterly, on the same sourcing standard as the rest of the site.
Where the running count is kept.
These institutions monitor incidents as they occur. Each is named for what it is; 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 incident record, widely treated as the methodological standard among community monitors.
The reports · Community Security Trust →The European monitors.
The near-daily European record is kept country by country: the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency surveys Jewish communities across the Union; RIAS documents incidents in Germany; the SPCJ keeps France’s count; and in Italy, the CDEC Foundation’s Antisemitism Observatory logs incidents from Milan, Venice, and 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; slower than the monitors, and official.
The Crime Data Explorer · FBI →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, and, where the era’s street confrontations took a life, the record as made. The era it covers opened in 2000 and 2001, when the monitors’ counts broke upward with the Second Intifada and did not come back down, and when September 11, within six days, became an attack blamed on the Jews: that lie has its own entry on the Misconceptions page, because it is a lie, not an incident. The entries here begin with the Paris murders France was slow to name 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 what the courts had not, an antisemitic crime. The late arrival of the recognition is part of the record.
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 targets the Mumbai attackers scouted and struck was one Jewish house in a city of millions: the Chabad center at Nariman House, where six people were murdered, 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, 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, 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 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. The record is what the court found, and this page records it as found.
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 own posts announced the great-replacement lie he acted on. The record: convicted on all sixty-three federal counts, including hate crimes resulting in death; 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. His manifesto copied the one before it. The record: guilty pleas in state and federal court; 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 fifty-two 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. The record here is the finding itself, stated as the court stated it.
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; the attacker was killed by the FBI’s hostage rescue team. The record: the FBI called it an act of terrorism and a hate crime, 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 near Los Angeles and died of a head injury after a confrontation with a demonstrator from the opposing rally. The record, stated in full: a guilty plea in May 2026 to felony involuntary manslaughter and battery causing serious injury; a sentence of one year in county jail and probation, imposed over the District Attorney’s objection; and the prosecutors’ statement that they found no evidence the defendant committed a hate crime, though antisemitic speech was heard at the rally from others. This page enters the record as made, including what it does not establish.
The plea · Ventura County District Attorney →Washington: the Capital Jewish Museum.
A gunman murdered two young Israeli embassy staff members, 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; the defendant has pleaded not guilty. Listed as pending; the entry will state the outcome when a court does.
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, burning a dozen people. 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. A federal hate-crimes trial remains pending, and is listed here as pending.
Manchester: Yom Kippur at Heaton Park.
On Yom Kippur, a man drove a car into worshippers outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue and attacked with a knife. Two congregants were killed: Melvin Cravitz by the attacker, and Adrian Daulby by police fire aimed at the attacker as he tried to breach the door. 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. The inquest record is still being made, and this entry will follow it.
The case record · Counter Terrorism Policing →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; the European monitors record the same order of magnitude. 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, when anti-Jewish incidents outnumbered every other category combined, 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 Hasidic coat. Entered here are landmark cases that ended in court; the count lives with 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; the debate itself 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. The sentence is part of the record, stated as the court imposed it.
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 →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 lives with 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; in November 2023, ten years in prison and 470,000 dollars 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 the tearing of them, filmed again and again, became one of the era’s signature images. 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. The register keeps what concluded; the phenomenon’s scale lives in the era’s footage and the monitors’ counts.
Inside the schools.
Antisemitism inside schools, in the United States and beyond, entered when a district, a state, a ministry, or a national investigation concluded something official. 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: the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection, which in 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.) The incidents behind the findings below, harassment of Jewish students, jokes met with silence, history taught inverted, are the reason a documented curriculum exists at all: the answer to a classroom that teaches wrongly is a classroom equipped to teach rightly. 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. An inspectorate’s report is an official record, and two decades on it reads as the pattern’s early warning.
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, built on interviews with school staff and Jewish students, documented that every Jewish student interviewed had experienced verbal or physical attack, that “Jew” circulated as an insult, and that staff described urging Jewish students to tone down their identity rather than confronting the abuse. A city documenting itself is an official record, and it is entered as one.
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: annual Title VI harassment training for staff, a published anti-harassment statement, an audit of past discrimination complaints, revised investigation procedures, and climate surveys reported back to the federal office.
Philadelphia: the district-wide audit.
In response to a federal complaint documenting repeated antisemitic harassment and bullying, the School District of Philadelphia signed a resolution agreement with the Office for Civil Rights, agreeing to audit every school serving grades six to twelve for compliance with the non-discrimination rules protecting students on the basis of shared ancestry.
The resolution · complaint record →Maryland: the Baltimore complaint.
A federal Title VI complaint against the Baltimore City Public Schools documented the schoolyard forms the annual counts hide: Nazi salutes on the playground, Jewish students told that six million was not enough, a teacher directing Nazi salutes at a Jewish student, and a bullied child offered a support plan that included “lunch away from peers,” isolation offered as protection. The district’s own inquiry confirmed the teacher’s misconduct, the complaint records, with no discipline following. The Department of Education opened its investigation on August 7, 2025. An investigation is not a finding; the entry is pending, and will state what concludes.
The announcement · US Department of Education →Massachusetts: the Concord-Carlisle settlement.
After swastikas drawn repeatedly in its middle and high schools and “Jew” used as a slur against Jewish students between 2023 and 2025, the Concord-Carlisle district signed a settlement with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division: revised harassment policies, prompt and comprehensive investigation of every incident, protection from retaliation, safety plans for targeted students, training for staff and students, a designated compliance officer, and public reporting 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 entry is pending, and will state what concludes.
The announcement · US Department of Education →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; and a middle-school assembly, with a map omitting Israel and chants the staff let recur, unlawfully discriminated on the basis of a protected characteristic. The state ordered teacher training, a schoolwide lesson, and a new assembly-review policy. The reversal is part of the record.
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 that a seventh-grade Jewish student was beaten by a classmate and choked against a table, told, when she called for help, to shut her “stupid Jewish” mouth, in a school where 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 entry is pending, and will state what concludes.
The complaint record · ADL →Speech, when it entered public life.
This section holds official findings about antisemitism inside public institutions: investigations concluded, reports published, resolutions signed. It quotes findings, and issues none of its own. The historical version of this section is the Racial Turn Chapter: Vienna elected an antisemitic mayor in 1897, and the century that followed is the reason records like this one are kept.
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 that a City University of New York campus and its faculty union had discriminated and retaliated against observant and Zionist Jewish faculty, and that meetings were scheduled on Friday nights in a way that excluded the observant. A reasonable-cause determination is an official federal finding, not a court verdict, and it is entered here as what it is. Litigation between Jewish professors and the union has continued since, and is pending.
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. The reports are institutional self-examinations, published by the universities themselves, and each is public on its university’s site. What they found, they found about themselves; this page only records that they found it.
The funding record.
Who pays for the channel is a documented question: the Department of Education’s Section 117 foreign-gift disclosures, in which Qatar ranks as the largest foreign funder of American universities, and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s March 2026 release of nearly nine hundred pages of university-Qatar contracts. The record is treated in the Eastward Turn Chapter’s funding section, with the Department’s disclosure portal and the committee’s releases linked there.
The rule, kept.
Some widely reported incidents are absent because their official record is not yet made: cases before the courts appear only as labeled pending entries, and cases with no concluded finding wait. Where an investigation established a motive other than the targeting of Jews, the incident is not entered, whatever the early reporting said. Absence from this page is the rule working, not a judgment; the quarterly update adds each record as it concludes.
Every entry above ends with a document: a verdict, a plea, a finding. The organized-terror stream is kept on the Terror Record Chapter, the laws and rulings on the Legal Record, and the lies, the Protocols to September 11, on the Misconceptions page. The method of this page is the method of the whole site: not what is said about the record, but the record.
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