Antisemitic incidents in Australia fell 20 percent in the 12 months between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, but still dwarf pre–Oct. 7, 2023, levels, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) reported on Wednesday.
The group documented 1,654 incidents during the time period, down from 2,062 the previous year but still roughly five times the annual average in the decade before the Hamas-led attack on Israel.
Serious incidents, including arson attacks on synagogues, preschools and other Jewish institutions, reached their highest level since ECAJ began tracking, the council reported. The report highlights antisemitic arson attacks on Jewish community sites that Australian intelligence has linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which Canberra subsequently designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
“The total number of reported antisemitic incidents in Australia has continued at unprecedentedly high levels for a second consecutive year. We are now at a stage where anti-Jewish racism has left the fringes of society, where it is normalised and allowed to fester and spread, gaining ground at universities, in arts and culture spaces, in the health sector, in the workplace and elsewhere,” said ECAJ president Daniel Aghion KC.
“In such an environment, Jews have legitimate concerns for their physical safety and social well-being in Australia,” he continued. “Together, we must do all we can to combat this scourge which is why hosting the J7 here in Australia for the first time has never been more important.”
ECAJ’s report came as Jewish leaders from the world’s seven largest diaspora communities (the J7) met in Sydney on Wednesday for the first J7 Task Force Summit in Australia, focused on addressing persistent and rising antisemitism. Participants include representatives from Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
