New York, NY, March 18, 2026 … Members of the J7 Large Jewish Communities Task Force Against Antisemitism, representing the Jewish diaspora communities in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, today urged diplomats to the United Nations to take action in the face of rising antisemitism that has plagued each of their countries in the past few months.
The J7 representatives met today in New York with UN Permanent Representatives and senior mission leadership from these seven countries. They urged the UN leaders to identify actions governments and international organizations can take to address antisemitism and to work for real accountability by UN officials to address antisemitism at the UN and beyond.
The J7 leaders also urged the U.N. Permanent Representatives to ensure that the next Secretary General consider the crisis of antisemitism and take real steps to address it within the UN.
After a closed-door meeting with the diplomats at the headquarters of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) in New York City, the J7 leaders issued the following joint statement:
“We welcome the opportunity to meet with UN permanent representatives to have an open discussion about the rising crisis of global antisemitism. Our message was clear: Our governments and the UN must do more --- urgently and measurably -- to combat antisemitism and the anti-Israel bias that too often fuels and legitimizes it.
“We called on the Permanent Representatives to work for real accountability by UN officials and UN mandate holders for antisemitic conduct, rhetoric and bias. We called for action to ensure UN resources do not support, endorse, or legitimize extremism, terrorism, or antisemitism, including through UN-produced education resources and UN support for programs and campaigns that promote anti-Israel boycotts.
“Our communities are in the midst of a global antisemitism crisis, with attacks on synagogues in North America and Europe just over the past week. While each community faces distinct circumstances, what begins in one country invariably appears where other Jews live.
“Antisemitism is globalized through copycats, coordinated campaigns, and state actors such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, which deliberately internationalizes hate, extremism and terrorism, aimed specifically at Jewish communities. Indeed, the Iranian regime has already targeted our communities, from the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing in 1994 to as recently as the December 2024 attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia.
“We will continue to coordinate across our communities and engage our governments and UN leaders to ensure action that Jewish communities can see, measure and trust.”
Both the UN permanent representatives and J7 community representatives committed to convene this group on a standing basis when the J7 meets in New York.
The meeting comes in the wake of a series of horrific and violent antisemitic attacks around the world, including the massacre of 15 people at Bondi Beach in Australia during a Hanukkah celebration, a series of targeted shooting attacks on synagogues in Canada, the stabbing of two people outside of a synagogue in suburban Manchester on Yom Kippur, and explosive devices set off at two Jewish institutions in the Netherlands.
The J7 convened on the sidelines of the ADL Never is Now Summit, held on March 16-17 in New York. The J7 was founded in 2023, just months before the October 7 attack, bringing together Jewish community leadership from the seven largest Jewish Diaspora communities to collaborate in assessing and responding to global antisemitism.
UN ambassadors attending the meeting include Ambassador Francisco Tropepi of Argentina, Ambassador James Larsen of Australia, Ambassador Michael Gort of Canada, Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont of France, Ambassador Ricklef Beutin of Germany, Ambassador James Kariuki of the U.K., and Ambassador Jeff Bartos of the United States.
The J7 Large Jewish Communities Task Force Against Antisemitism are:
- DAIA (Argentina)
- ECAJ (Australia)
- CIJA (Canada)
- CRIF (France)
- Central Council of Jews in Germany (Germany)
- Board of Deputies of British Jews (United Kingdom)
- ADL and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (United States)