This week, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) hosted an online expert panel discussion on the history of antisemitic ideologies embedded in the Palestinian nationalist movement, manifested most clearly today in school textbooks and media programming. In Latin America, the opening ceremony for a weeklong display of the CAM-sponsored “No Discriminarás” traveling exhibit, featuring cartoons highlighting examples of contemporary antisemitism, was held on Tuesday at the Panamá Viejo Museum in Panama City. 

In the U.S., reports emerged of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s participation in a recent art show promoting Israel’s destruction. In Pensacola, Florida, four suspects were arrested in connection with a recent spate of at least eight antisemitic vandalism incidents. Also this week, Princeton University faced criticism from Jewish groups over the inclusion of a book claiming that the Israeli military harvests Palestinian organs in a syllabus for a humanities course being offered this fall semester.

Since the end of June,  the CAM Antisemitism Research Center has monitored a series of hate crimes targeting the Jewish community of San Diego, California. Over the past month and a half, there have been five reports of antisemitic incidents in the city, including verbal and physical harassment of Jews, as well as the distribution of hateful flyers.

In Berlin, Germany,  an Israeli tourist was assaulted last Saturday by three assailants who heard him speaking on a phone in Hebrew as he walked to a supermarket. In Geneva, Switzerland, antisemitic graffiti, calling for “a stop to Judaism,” was spotted on a building. In the UK, disgraced academic David Miller was widely denounced for claiming that Jews were overrepresented in positions of power and did not suffer discrimination. In Melbourne, Australia, Jewish teens were chased off a public bus by a knife-wielding passenger who called himself a Nazi.  

In the Middle East, a municipal patrol officer was shot dead in central Tel Aviv by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist. In Egypt, Israeli model Shay Zanco, who was accompanying U.S. rapper Travis Scott ahead of a planned Cairo concert, was kicked out of her hotel due to her nationality.

This week’s global antisemitism report highlights 52 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 32 (61.54%) from the far-right, 5 (9.62%) from the far-left, 7 (13.46%) with Islamist motivations, and 8 (15.38%) unidentifiable in nature.