In the United States this week, two third-party presidential candidates – Cornel West and Jill Stein – accused Israel of commiting genocide in Gaza. At an “Al-Quds Day” rally in Dearborn, Michigan, speakers drew parallels between Israel, ISIS, and Nazi Germany, and chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” were heard. Also this week, anti-Israel activists in Houston, Texas, celebrated the deadly October 7th massacre and incited hatred against the local Jewish community. In Florida, a man’s arrest for threatening to murder a synagogue employee and attack a St. Petersburg shul sent shockwaves through the state’s Jewish community. 

In the Netherlands, a freed Israeli hostage was harassed by a border agent at the Amsterdam airport. In Oldenburg, Germany, a synagogue was attacked with an incendiary device. In the United Kingdom, a Conservative candidate in a local election withdrew after it was revealed he had posted a comment about “Jew pigs.” Furthermore, two Reform Party candidates were removed from the electoral slates after antisemitic social media posts they had published were exposed by a anti-racism NGO. In Rome, Italy, antisemitic flyers featuring Hitler and Mussolini as well as the phrase “Arbeit macht frei” from Auschwitz were discovered. 

In the Middle East, a Fatah official accused U.S. President Joe Biden of being a “Zionist from birth” and supporting Israel’s “Nazi tendencies.” In Pakistan, an Urdu-language journalist published an article alleging a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. An ancient Jewish mausoleum in Hamadan, Iran, was damaged in a Molotov cocktail attack. 

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is considering charges brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of aiding Israel in perpetrating genocide in Gaza. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, having previously compared the current war in Gaza to the Holocaust and Israel to Nazi Germany, claimed this week that Israel had murdered 12.3 million Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, a number far larger than the combined total population of Gaza and Israel.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 158 new incidents, categorized as follows: 104 (65.8%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 30 (19%) as unattributable, 12 (7.6%) as Islamist, 8 (5.1%) as classical antisemitism, and 4 (2.5%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.