Weekly Report – April 16, 2026
This Week's
GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT
THIS WEEK'S GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT
This week, we continued to monitor antisemitism around the world while advocating for more actions to be made.
Two suspects were arrested on Wednesday following the overnight firebombing of Finchley Reform Synagogue in London, England.
The incident followed the recent torching of four Jewish ambulances in London’s Golders Green neighborhood, as well as similar attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands since the outbreak of the Iran war.
Other prominent incidents monitored by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM this week, amid commemorations of Yom HaShoah, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance day, included:
- Poland: In a speech in parliament, far-right Polish MP Konrad Berkowicz held up an Israeli flag featuring a Nazi swastika in place of the Star of David and called Israel the “new Third Reich.”
- The Netherlands: A public display in Amsterdam’s Dam Square repurposed Holocaust imagery to frame the recent war in Gaza as a “genocide.”
- Spain: An effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu packed with explosives was detonated before a cheering crowd in El Burgo, near Malaga.
- North Macedonia: A synagogue in Skopje was targeted by arsonists in what was believed to be the first antisemitic attack in the country since the Holocaust.
- Azerbaijan: An Iranian terror plot against a Baku synagogue, the Israeli embassy, and an oil pipeline was thwarted by security services.
- Syria: Government forces reportedly foiled a Hezbollah attempt to assassinate a rabbi in Damascus.
- United States: An antisemitic threat triggered a lockdown at a Jewish student center near University of Oregon.
All 20 incidents recorded on college or university campuses this week occurred in the United States.
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