U.S. Senator James Lankford is calling for continued federal action to combat antisemitism after new FBI data showed more than 62% of religiously motivated hate crimes in 2025 targeted Jewish Americans.
Lankford and U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada, co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, said 2025 marked the third-highest year for anti-Jewish hate crimes on record. While the number declined slightly from 2024, the senators said incidents remain above levels recorded before the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.
“We’re faced with nothing less than a crisis, and we need collective action,” Lankford and Rosen said in a joint statement.
The senators are pushing for passage of the Jewish American Security Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at protecting Jewish Americans from antisemitism on college campuses, at Jewish community institutions and online.
