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Antisemitic hate crimes during the Gaza war
Brå identified antisemitic motives in 111 police reports in 2022 and 217 in 2024. These annual figures show an increase but do not isolate the effect of 7 October 2023. What does the statistic measure — and what do the processing figures mean?
Short version in the chapter: Antisemitism & hate crimes — overview
Published 2026-07-16
111 reports in 2022 and 217 in 2024
Brå 2025:19 records 111 police reports with an antisemitic motive identified by Brå in 2022 and 217 in 2024. Reports are not counts of victims or convictions.
No verified annual observation for 2023 or 2025 is shown here. Missing is not zero. The annual comparison does not isolate the cause of the change.
Offences and locations — different denominators
Table 7.2 records 313 offences with an identified antisemitic motive in the 217 reports in 2024: agitation against a population group 138 (44%), criminal damage 69 (22%), molestation 52 (17%) and unlawful threats 21 (7%). These percentages concern offences, not reports.
Table 7.3 instead uses the principal offence in each report: public places 67 (31%), digital environments 46 (21%), schools 30 (14%) and religious places 23 (11%). Locations must not be mixed with offence categories.
Methods, not offender motives
Table 7.4 uses the principal offence in 217 reports in 2024. General dissemination, graffiti and criminal damage occurred in 106 (49%); physical attacks or violations in 7 (3%). The latter is not the same measure as the offence category assault.
Footnote 69 describes an increase in identified antisemitic reports after the terrorist attack on 7 October 2023. A temporal change does not identify offenders or establish its cause.
Processing — reports from 2022
The processing section covers all 3,548 offences with identified hate-crime motives in reports from 2022, followed until 31 May 2025. Of these, 5% were cleared by prosecution-related decisions. This concerns all hate-crime motives together, not a clearance rate for the 217 antisemitic reports in 2024.
This processing measure includes all identified hate crimes in reports, whereas the earlier processing presentation used the principal offence. It is not a comparable time series or a conviction rate.
Method and limitations
Since 2020 the statistics use police hate-crime-flagged reports in which Brå identifies a hate-crime motive. Brå 2025:19 permits comparisons with 2020 and 2022, not earlier years.
Unreported incidents and reports not flagged as hate crimes are outside these statistics. Recording and reporting behaviour can affect the result, but this annual series does not measure their individual effects.
The statistics describe identified reports and offences. They do not establish collective guilt or an individual person's motive.