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Dear Friends,
The Latin American Forum to Combat Antisemitism convened the region’s leading Jewish organizations and dignitaries to combat rising antisemitism, and to promote ongoing efforts to secure justice for the survivors and victims of the AMIA bombing on the 28th anniversary of the attack that killed 85 people.
French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated a new Holocaust museum on the 80th anniversary of the deportation of French Jews, saying “Those dark hours have forever stained our history…France committed the unforgivable.” Macron added, “France now has a duty, in order to remain true to itself, to acknowledge this and to cede no inch to the present-day antisemitism.”
A New Jersey man made terroristic threats towards worshippers outside of an orthodox synagogue, and a man in New York harassed congregants outside a Chabad Jewish center during a Holocaust survivor’s speech. Also in New York, an orthodox Jewish man was assaulted in Brooklyn, and four teenagers were arrested for a drive-by assault on Hasidic Jews upstate.
A German national in Florida was arrested with bomb-making components, Nazi memorabilia and antisemitic materials. In Germany, the Berlin Holocaust memorial was vandalized with a swastika and “Heil Hitler” graffiti.
French Jewish schoolchildren on holiday in Croatia woke up to a giant swastika painted outside their hotel, and a 600-year-old Jewish cemetery in Turkey was vandalized, with 36 graves destroyed.
As Russian authorities appear poised to shut down the Jewish Agency in the country, Moscow’s former chief rabbi, who recently fled the country, expressed growing concern of a new “Iron Curtain,” behind which Russia will prevent Jews from emigrating.
This week’s global antisemitism report highlights 36 new media reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 21 (58.3%) from the far-right, 2 (5.6%) from the far-left, 3 (8.3%) with Islamist motivations, and 10 (27.8%) unidentifiable in nature.
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