WORLD - Antisemitism Top Concern for Jews
A sweeping new report from Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People initiative shows that antisemitism has become the primary challenge for Jews worldwide.
The “2025 Jewish Landscape Report,” conducted after the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, found that 76% of Jews globally, regardless of age or religious affiliation, believe rising antisemitism is a major challenge.
In the survey, respondents described antisemitism in many forms, including hate speech, social exclusion, and growing fear of expressing Jewish identity in public. Many said they felt vulnerable, isolated, and, in some cases, betrayed by institutions they had previously trusted before the October 7 attacks.
“In the past year and a half, antisemitism has become the number one issue for Jewish people globally,” said Shirel Dagan-Levy, CEO of Voice of the People. “The findings reflect a community that is hurting.”
When analyzed by country, the Netherlands emerged as the place where the largest share of respondents (92%) said rising antisemitism was a critical concern.
A separate survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2019—before the October 7 attack—had already shown that nearly half (47%) of Dutch Jews experienced some form of antisemitic harassment in the previous five years.
“The goal of Voice of the People is to be a data-driven organization and to come up with real, actionable solutions; we can’t work without data,” Dagan-Levy explained. “For us, that’s the way to go. And that’s why it’s really important for us to share this report with the Jewish people, because it can help other organizations in the Jewish world. … This is a very, very significant report,” she concluded.
-themedialine.org, 29 May 2025
Arno's Commentary
It is noteworthy that Jews in other nations, not just Israel’s neighbors, have expressed their concern and fear just for being Jewish.
On the one hand, it doesn’t make sense; but on the other hand, we are presented with reliable data that Jews are beginning to be fearful in their host countries.
Europe is a collection of Christianized countries; so is America and Australia. Yet, in recent years, Jews have learned—often painfully—that they are different.
How different? “Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him” (Isaiah 43:7). While we may apply this spiritually to the Church, the prophet distinctly addresses Israel. It is the only nation “that is called by my name.” The birth of that name? “And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel” (Genesis 35:10).
We are reminded of God’s original promise to Jacob: “And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 28:14).
The last sentence is of utmost importance: “in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” The fact that Jews globally are starting to be more fearful, is a clear indication that the nations at large are rejecting the blessing which God promised upon all nations. Instead, they continue to choose terrorism—cold-blooded mass-murderers such as Hamas—and unashamedly grant them a degree of support.
Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
