In France, a terrorist wearing a Palestinian flag attacked a synagogue in La Grande Motte with an explosive, injuring a police officer. Also in France, a man approached a Jewish woman on the streets of Paris while brandishing a knife and threatening to “kill Jews.” In Germany, an ISIS-inspired terrorist killed three Germans before being apprehended. ISIS released a statement claiming that the perpetrator sought “to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.”

In the United States, a California synagogue received a bomb threat. In Massachusetts, local law enforcement said that they found a headstone knocked over and burned from a fire in a Jewish cemetery. Antisemitic flyers associated with the white supremacist organization Goyim Defense League (GDL) were found in California, and similar flyers promoting far-right antisemitism were found in Virginia and Louisiana. In Washington, D.C., antisemitic vandals wrote, “f*ck Israel” and “f*ck AIPAC” in red paint on the sidewalk outside the AIPAC headquarters. In Georgia, the chair of the Republican party in a southeast congressional district said during an appearance on a white supremacist podcast that Jews are “controlling everything.” 

In Canada, authorities are investigating after a Jew was threatened on the Toronto metro system. Also in Toronto, anti-Israel protesters shouted, “Free Palestine” while marching in a Jewish neighborhood, and elsewhere in Ontario, a Nazi flag was spotted at a home. In the Middle East, Hamas threatened to resume bombing buses in Tel Aviv, writing, “We Are Coming” on its military wing’s Telegram channel. 

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 122 new incidents, categorized as follows: 84 (68.9%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 15 (12.3%) as Islamist, 13 (10.7%) as classical antisemitism, 8 (6.6%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, and 2 (1.6%) as unattributable.