Antisemitic incidents of assault involving a deadly weapon rose to 32 in 2025 from 23 in 2024.By Dion J. Pierre, The AlgemeinerRising antisemitism across the US is continuing to shift how American Jews relate to their country and themselves, as 57 percent of those surveyed by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) in a new survey said they are hiding indicators of their identity to avoid being the target of a hate crime or other discriminatory act.Released on Thursday to coincide with America’s Semiquincentennial, the findings come amid a five-year period that saw the largest surge in antisemitic incidents in American history, with triple-digit year-over-year increases in assault, vandalism, and harassment reported by the world’s leading Jewish advocacy and research institutions.Those statistics are cutting deep into the Jewish mind, CAM said Thursday, reporting additionally that 38 percent of Jews hide items that would give away their identity, 32 percent abstain from sharing social media content that would do so, and 23 percent have stopped attending Jewish worship services and cultural events, fearing they may come under attack.“These findings are a stark reminder that antisemitism is a lived daily reality for Jewish Americans,” Alyza Lewin, CAM’s president of US affairs, said in a press release.“The more openly Jewish you are, the more likely you are to experience antisemitism. Unsurprisingly, as a result, Jews are changing their behavior and thinking twice about how openly Jewish to be.”CAM went on to note that American Jews are looking to lawmakers for help and believe that adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism would strengthen the legal and justice system’s protection of Jews as a historic minority and protected group that has suffered discrimination across the ages.Seventy-one percent of survey respondents said they support the move, with “just 1 percent” saying they strongly oppose it.“The data is clear. The mandate is clear,” Lewin continued.“It’s time to adopt the IHRA definition and get to work protecting the ability of Jews in America to openly, proudly, and safely embrace their shared Jewish ancestry, history, and heritage.”In May, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released its annual “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents” for the last calendar year, tallying 6,274 incidents of antisemitic assault, harassment, and vandalism in 2025, an average of 17 such outrages per day.While antisemitic assaults increased by just 4 percent, from 196 in 2024 to 203 in 2025, perpetrators increased their use of deadly weapons by nearly 40 percent, the ADL said.Incidents of assault involving a deadly weapon rose to 32 in 2025 from 23 in 2024.The advocacy group noted that the upward shift was reflected in the killings of Jews in antisemitic attacks in the US for the first time since 2019.Two Israeli embassy staffers—a young couple set to be engaged—were shot dead in Washington, DC last May, and weeks later a firebombing in Colorado claimed the life of an octogenarian.In both crimes, the alleged killers cited anti-Zionism as their motivating ideology.Other statistics dropped by double digits, according to the ADL.Antisemitic vandalism was down 21 percent in 2025, and antisemitic harassment decreased 39 percent.However, both categories still combined for a total of 6,071 incidents, a figure that eclipses the number of hate crimes the FBI said was committed against African Americans in 2024.For context, the Black community is roughly seven times larger than the Jewish community.“Behind every one of these incidents is a real person: a family threatened at their synagogue, a rabbi attacked on the street, a student harassed on campus,” ADL senior vice president Oren Segal said in a statement released with the report.“2025 brought some of the most violent antisemitic attacks in recent memory. Even as overall incidents declined, the surge in physical assaults is a stark reminder that a historically high level of antisemitism puts Jewish lives at risk.”The post Majority of American Jews still hiding identity to avoid hate crime, new survey reports appeared first on World Israel News.