Weekly Report - August 24 | Combat Antisemitism Movement

Weekly Report – August 24

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.

The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) was proud to host, in partnership with the UJA-Federation of New York, an interfaith and intercultural reception in Jerusalem on Monday greeting New York City Mayor Eric Adams. At the event, held at the Jerusalem Campus for the Arts, Mayor Adams met a group of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious leaders representing a diverse range of communities that comprise Israel’s vibrant social fabric.

Multiple antisemitic incidents were reported across the United States this week. In Georgia, police closed several streets around the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta following a bomb threat. In California, multiple Los Angeles kosher restaurants were burglarized, prompting an investigation by the city’s police department. In New York City, police were investigating a string of apparent antisemitic hate crimes in Brooklyn. In one of the incidents, a bike-riding assailant slapped a visibly-Jewish male passerby, and a woman was also struck nearby a short time later. Separately, two suspects on a moped knocked off a Jewish man’s yarmulke in Borough Park.

With Germany experiencing a rise in crimes targeting Jews, a Jewish father and son were verbally assaulted while walking in Berlin. In France, a kosher restaurant in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. And amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, top Russian officials continued to distort and trivialize the Holocaust with comparisons of the government in Kyiv to the Nazi regime.

In the Middle East, an Israeli mother of three was murdered in a drive-by shooting perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists near Hebron. This came only two days after an Israeli father and son were gunned down at a car wash in the Palestinian town of Huwara, near Nablus. These brutal attacks against Israeli civilians were widely celebrated on the Palestinian street, and the Palestinian Authority did not denounce them.

This week’s global antisemitism report highlights 43 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 22 (51.17%) from the far-right, 1 (2.33%) from the far-left, 5 (11.64%) with Islamist motivations, and 15 (34.89%) unidentifiable in nature.

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JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA TARGETED BY BOMB THREAT

By FOX 5 ATLANTA

"We were told there were bombs in the building, and they would detonate in 20 minutes, and we needed to vacate," said Eric Robbins. Robbins, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, says he is always on high alert. So, when Atlanta Police called him about 2:30 p.m. to inform of this bomb threat, he says they immediately started following protocol. They evacuated the building. Police closed several streets in the area and the bomb sniffing dogs moved in and went to work.