Casualties Outside Statistics: Why J7 Doesn’t See Ukrainian Jews Under Russian Terror — J7 Annual Report on Antisemitism 2026 Left Ukraine Out.

Ukrainian Jews are dying.

They are dying under Russian missiles, in destroyed apartment buildings, and on the battlefield. They serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, treat the wounded, deliver food and medicine to elderly people, rescue children, pray during air-raid alerts and keep Jewish communities alive in cities Russia is trying to reduce to rubble.

Yet in one of the most prominent international reports about threats facing the Jewish diaspora, these people are almost invisible.

On July 29, 2026, J7 — the Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism — published its second annual J7 Annual Report on Antisemitism 2026. J7 brings together Jewish organizations from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia and Argentina.

The report recorded 23,174 antisemitic incidents during 2025. Its authors described that year as the deadliest for Jews in the diaspora since the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

According to the report, 20 people were killed in four antisemitic attacks: 15 during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, two near the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, two outside the Jewish museum in Washington, and one woman who died after an attack on a gathering supporting Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado.

Those deaths are horrifying. Every victim deserves to be remembered. Every attack demands investigation, accountability and a serious response from governments.

But another painful question remains:

Where are the Jews of Ukraine in this picture?

Where are the Jews killed by Russian missiles, drones and artillery? Where are the Jewish soldiers who died defending Ukraine? Where are the synagogues, schools, cemeteries, Holocaust memorials and community centers damaged or destroyed by Russian attacks?

The uncomfortable answer is that the structure of the J7 report is almost incapable of seeing them.

A major report with narrow borders

The report is not a worldwide survey of Jewish safety. It covers seven countries containing some of the world’s largest Jewish communities outside Israel.

Ukraine is not a J7 member. Neither are most countries in Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union, despite their long Jewish histories and active Jewish communities.

J7 says the seven countries covered by its work contain more than 90 percent of the Jewish population living outside Israel. But that only means the report focuses on the largest communities. It does not mean that it presents a complete picture of every danger facing Jews around the world.

The exclusion of Ukraine becomes even more striking because the 2026 report contains a special chapter on Ireland, although Ireland is not a J7 member and has a Jewish community of........

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