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Dear Friends,
Germany’s Interior Minister signed a cooperation agreement with Yad Vashem to train German police on antisemitism – a critical law enforcement step to recognize, prosecute, and prevent antisemitic hate crimes, which have reached record highs in Germany.
In Boston, Massachusetts, The Mapping Project – a pro-BDS activist collective – released an interactive map listing “Zionist leaders and NGOs” (including addresses and names) to draw links between dozens of local synagogues, Jewish organizations and schools, universities, foundations, and police departments to demonstrate that “support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing and systemic white supremacy.” The organization wrote, “Every entity has an address, every network can be disrupted.”
U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), who represents a heavily Jewish district in the map, fiercely condemned the effort saying, “This is just chilling…It is tapping into millennia-old antisemitic tropes about nefarious Jewish wealth, control, conspiracy, media connections and political string-pulling,” explaining further that efforts to “keep lists” of Jews “can incite violence” and “inflame the deranged among us to take the next step from contemplating to acting upon violence.”
A Jewish community center in Denver, Colorado received a bomb threat, and a suspicious man made threats after entering a Las Vegas, Nevada synagogue during Shabbat. Antisemitic flyers were distributed at homes this week in Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts, Florida, Maryland, Illinois, and Virginia.
Antisemitic violence was reported in France, where a Strasbourg Jewish man was beaten unconscious by a group yelling “Dirty Jew,” as he hung campaign posters for his wife. Nearby, four Neo-Nazis were arrested for a plot to “hunt Jews” during a soccer match. Authorities found 43 guns, 120,000 bullets, and neo-Nazi literature in their possession.
In a speech to the Islamic world, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said “Zionism is an obvious plague for the world of Islam…The Zionists have always been a plague, even before establishing the fraudulent Zionist regime. Even then, Zionist capitalists were a plague for the whole world.” Calling out this state sponsored antisemitism, US Antisemitism Envoy Deborah Lipstadt said, “Let us make no mistake, the use of ‘Zionist’ here is nothing but a foil for “Jewish.”
This week’s global antisemitism report highlights 33 new media reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 18 (54.5%) from the far-right, 6 (18.2%) from the far-left, 3 (9.1%) with Islamist motivations, and 6 (18.2%) unidentifiable in nature.
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