This week, the city of Rochester, Minnesota, experienced two disturbing antisemitic vandalism incidents within a 24-hour period. On Saturday morning, a state representative’s home was vandalized with swastikas and racist messages. The following day, a sign at a local synagogue was spray-painted with the number “300,” an apparent reference to the false accusation that Israel had been committing “genocide” in Gaza for the past 300 days. In New York City, a “Hamas truck” adorned with hateful images was driven through predominantly-Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a statue of Anne Frank was once again vandalized by anti-Israel activists who painted “Free Gaza”on its base and smeared red paint, representing blood, on its hands. In Belgium, a comedy writer published an article in which he admitted to wanting to stab Jews when thinking about the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

In the town of Kelso, Scotland, authorities are investigating a swastika graffiti incident in a public park. Also in the United Kingdom, the Community Security Trust (CST) reported that the far-right leaders behind the xenophobic and racist riots that have occurred in several cities in recent days have praised Hitler and denied the Holocaust. The riot leaders are also reported to have encouraged attacks targeting British Jews.

In the Middle East, two Israeli citizens were killed and two others injured in a terrorist attack in the city of Holon, near Tel Aviv. Turkey this week joined the International Court of Justice (ICJ) case charging Israel with committing genocide as it fights Hamas in the Gaza Strip. This came three days after Turkey’s foreign minister accused Israel of genocide while visiting the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 140 new incidents, categorized as follows: 99 (70.7%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 22 (15.7%) as Islamist, 16 (11.4%) as classical antisemitism, 1 (0.7%) as unattributable, and 2 (1.4%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.