The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) was proud to deliver a special recognition to Panama’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Janaina Tewaney Mencomo, thanking the country for its recent adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. The letter of appreciation was signed by more than 100 CAM coalition partners.

In upstate New York, a passing motorist threatened a staffer with a machete at the entrance to a Jewish summer camp. Meanwhile, at least 26 synagogues across 12 U.S. states  received fake bomb threats from online trolls. Also this week, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used classic antisemitic tropes to disparage the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, accusing it of “undermining democracy” with “dark money.”

In Germany, where the CAM Antisemitism Research Center has been monitoring an uptick in antisemitic incidents over the past month, a Holocaust memorial at a Berlin train station was vandalized and Nazi swastikas were carved into a prayer bench at a Munich synagogue. In France, antisemitic death threats were written on the facade of a store near a Paris synagogue. In the southern Paris suburb of Verrières-le-Buisson, a couple was accosted by an assailant who called them “dirty Jews.” In the United Kingdom, the taxpayer-funded Hastings Commons community group faced criticism for hosting a talk by notorious anti-Zionist academic David Miller, who was fired by the University of Bristol after claiming Jewish students were “pawns” of Israel. 

In the Middle East, it was revealed that the Arabic subtitles for Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer” translated the words “Jew” and “Jewish” as “ghurabaa,” meaning “strangers” or “foreigners,” highlighting the sad reality of how deeply embedded antisemitism remains in large swathes of the region.

This week’s global antisemitism report highlights 37 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 25 (67.57%) from the far-right, 4 (10.81%) from the far-left, 6 (16.21%) with Islamist motivations, and 2 (5.41%) unidentifiable in nature.