Antisemitic vandals spray-painted on Monday the outside of a Chabad synagogue and a sign for the local Jewish federation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the site of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue massacre. Elsewhere in the United States, antisemitic flyers were distributed by the Goyim Defense League (GDL) in the San Francisco Bay Area cities of Napa and Petaluma. In Brooklyn, New York, a Jewish woman was assaulted while walking home on Friday night.

At the Summer Olympics in Paris, France, Israeli athletes have been subjected to multiple acts of antisemitism. Ahead of the start of the Olympics, French authorities investigated threats against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. French authorities are also investigating death threats targeting three Israeli Olympic team members. At the Israel-Paraguay soccer match, fans shouted “Heil Hitler” and displayed a banner reading “Genocide Olympics.” 

In Latin America, Cuba’s foreign minister condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress last week, claiming it showed America was “complicit” in Israel’s “genocide.” After a disputed election in Venezuela, the incumbent president and far-left authoritarian Nicolás Maduro accused anti-government protesters of a “Nazi level of fascism.” A Colombian senator posted on X that “a genocide in which the main victims are Palestinian children should stop being called ‘war.’”

In Canada, a synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Vaughn was vandalized, as were several nearby businesses and homes. In Calgary, vandals painted pro-Hamas expressions such as the inverted red triangle on a wall near a synagogue and Jewish day school. Both of these incidents highlighted the increase in antisemitism in Canada in the aftermath of October 7th, documented in a government report that found that antisemitic incidents increased 71% in 2023 compared to the previous year. Despite representing less than 1% of Canada’s population, Jews were the victims of 19% of hate crimes in the country last year, more than any other identity group.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 108 new incidents, categorized as follows: 64 (59.3%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 26 (24.1%) as Islamist, 11 (10.2%) as classical antisemitism, 4 (3.7%) as unattributable, and 3 (2.8%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.