The latest data released by the Fondazione CDEC confirm a continued and sharp rise in antisemitic incidents across Italy, with the 2025 total approaching four digits for the first time.
Over the past four years, the upward trend has been stark. In 2022, 241 incidents were recorded. The number rose to 453 in 2023 and almost doubled again to 877 in 2024. In 2025, 1,492 reports were submitted through official monitoring channels. Of these, 963 cases were formally classified as antisemitic.
The majority of incidents occurred online. According to the data, 643 cases involved antisemitism on digital platforms, while 320 consisted of acts carried out physically. These included graffiti, vandalism and desecration of synagogues and Jewish symbols, as well as discrimination, intimidation, threats and physical assaults.
The Foundation identifies antisemitism linked to Israel as the principal ideological driver behind the surge. This form of hostility often involves the transfer of longstanding anti-Jewish myths — including the blood libel, allegations of racial supremacy and accusations of hostility towards humanity — onto the Jewish state and Zionism.
At the same time, the report highlights the persistence of other ideological strands, such as neo-Nazism, anti-Judaism and distortion of the Shoah. It warns of a growing normalisation of antisemitic discourse and behaviour, noting that the social spaces in which being Jewish in Italy is regarded as normal and acceptable — in line with constitutional guarantees and basic standards of civil conduct — are narrowing in an alarming manner.
The annual study was prepared by researchers Stefano Gatti, Murilo Cambruzzi and Larisa Anastasia Bulgar, with a contribution from demographer Sergio Della Pergola, under the supervision of CDEC Director Gadi Luzzatto Voghera.
The findings will be formally presented on 3 March, 2026, at the Senate in Palazzo Giustiniani, where institutional representatives and experts will discuss the data and the broader implications of the record number of incidents recorded in 2025.
