The numbers are stark, and American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO Ted Deutch did not soften them. Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Deutch laid out the findings of the newly released State of Antisemitism in America 2025 Report — a sweeping survey that reveals just how profoundly the threat of anti-Jewish hate has reshaped everyday Jewish life in the United States. Roughly nine in ten American Jews, the report found, now say they feel less safe because of major antisemitic attacks over the past year. “When fear is normalized, for any group,” Deutch told viewers, “that suggests there’s much deeper problems — because it affects society as a whole.”

The report arrives against a backdrop of violence that has shocked even those who have tracked antisemitism for years: the burning of a Jewish governor’s home, the firebombing of Jewish residents in Boulder, Colorado, and murders outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. These were not isolated incidents. They are, the data suggests, part of a pattern that is accelerating — and that is now forcing ordinary American Jews to change how they live.

The Report’s Core Findings

The State of Antisemitism in America 2025 Report examines the two years since the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023 — a period that Deutch and AJC argue marked a watershed moment in the trajectory of American antisemitism. What the data reveals is not simply a spike in incidents, but a sustained climate of fear that is reshaping behaviour, identity, and daily life for Jewish Americans from coast to coast.

The Digital Frontier: AI and Social Media

A striking thread running through Deutch’s Morning Joe interview — and through the 2025 report itself — is the role of technology in fuelling the crisis. For the first time, the report foregrounds AI systems as a distinct amplifier of antisemitic content, alongside the social media platforms that have long been identified as hostile environments for Jewish users. With 73 percent of American Jews reporting online antisemitism in a single year, the digital dimension of the crisis is no longer secondary to the physical one — it is inseparable from it.

AJC has launched a direct appeal to Congress, calling for concrete, legislative action to counter the surge of anti-Jewish hate on social media and to address the ways AI systems surface, generate, and amplify hateful content. “Online spaces have become a primary driver of antisemitism,” the organisation stated — a finding that carries urgent implications for platform accountability, content moderation, and the legal frameworks governing digital speech.

AJC’s Global Response

The release of the 2025 report is not an endpoint for AJC — it is the anchor of a wide-ranging global campaign. In recent weeks, the organisation has taken action on multiple fronts, underscoring its self-described role as the leading institution driving international coordination against antisemitism.

A Call Across Political Lines

Deutch has been deliberate in framing antisemitism not as a partisan issue but as a threat that must be confronted across the political spectrum. Speaking before thousands at New York’s Streicker Center alongside Temple Emanu-El’s Rabbi Joshua Davidson, he highlighted AJC’s efforts to confront anti-Jewish hate wherever it originates — from far-right extremism to far-left anti-Israel incitement — and to resist any attempt to weaponise Jewish safety for narrow political ends.

“The need to confront anti-Jewish hate across political lines” was one of the three pillars Deutch highlighted at that event — alongside online antisemitism and the threat that unchecked Jew-hatred poses to American democracy itself. That democratic dimension is, for AJC, the deepest argument for urgency: a society that normalises the targeting of one group has already begun to corrode the foundations that protect everyone.

The full State of Antisemitism in America 2025 Report — including insights, analysis, and policy recommendations — is available at AJC.org/AntisemitismReport2025. To sign up for AJC’s Action Against Antisemitism updates, visit AJC.org/AntisemitismUpdates.