By the end of last July, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a report stating that “2025 was the deadliest year, in terms of antisemitic violence against Jews in the diaspora, in more than 30 years, since the AMIA bombing in Argentina in 1994.” Twenty people were murdered last year simply because they were Jewish, in attacks carried out in Australia, England, and the United States; dozens more were injured.

The report analyzes the situation of antisemitism in the seven countries with the largest Jewish communities outside Israel: Germany, Argentina, Australia, Canada, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

The study recorded approximately 91,000 antisemitic incidents — nearly 250 per day — twice the number recorded before the attack by the terrorist group Hamas in October 2023.

Antisemitism has ceased to be a pathology confined to marginal individuals and has become present in politics, on social media, and in universities.

Alongside the demonization of Jews, it includes the relativization of the Holocaust and the denial of the State of Israel’s right to exist.

In addition to its extreme virulence, the new development is that political movements with little or nothing in common have joined together in antisemitic aggression: traditional right-wing fascists, the far left, and Islamic fundamentalists, joined by supposedly progressive academics.

Jews — who make up only 0.2% of the world’s population — are portrayed not as victims of antisemitism, but as its perpetrators, cast as “white supremacists.”

A Little History

The philosopher Victor Klemperer coined, in 1947, the idea that Nazi propaganda was not created solely through speeches but also through a “Nazi language” — that is, through words repeated millions of times until they are accepted mechanically and unconsciously. The same is happening today with antisemitic expressions such as “universal Jewish conspiracy,” “Jewish wealth,” or the use of “Zionism” as a synonym for racism.

The thinker Francis Fukuyama recently published a book entitled It’s the Internet, Stupid, in which he attributes the rise of populism to this medium. From our point of view, anonymity in messages transmitted over the internet has also exponentially amplified antisemitism.

As pointed out in previous articles, social media encourages extreme human reactions such as fear and hatred, in which conspiracy theories are commonplace. In Argentina, 66% of antisemitic incidents occur online. Added to this now, according to the ADL, are artificial-intelligence platforms that “display at least some shortcomings in addressing bias against Jews and Zionists, and all of them struggle with extremist content.”

A Retreat Into the Shadows

Although the West has traditionally been characterized by democracy, tolerance, and pluralism, the current wave of antisemitism has forced European and North American Jews to conceal their Jewish identity and avoid any visible sign that might reveal it. Many are considering emigrating. It is like returning to self-imposed confinement in ghettos — a setback of two hundred years.

Antisemitism is a carcinoma that destroys the fabric of coexistence. Let us remember that extreme antisemitism led to the Holocaust. — FFN Global Desk

Urgent coordination among states and regional organizations is imperative, as is a clear public stance from politicians and intellectuals, in order to prevent even more serious consequences. Tomorrow may be too late. We must not allow the serpent’s egg to hatch.