Amid the Hanukkah holiday and the ongoing war in Gaza, elevated levels of antisemitic incidents continued to be reported across the globe this week. In the United States, Council on American-Islamic Relations Executive Director Nihad Awad was exposed for describing Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israel as a source of “inspiration.” In response to this, the White House removed a reference to CAIR that was included in the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism it unveiled earlier this year.

In Williamsburg, Virginia, a monthly street fair, the 2nd Sundays Art and Music Festival, refused to host a public menorah-lighting ceremony, with festival organizer Shirley Vermillion saying it did not “want to make it seem we’re choosing a side – supporting the killing/bombing of thousands of men, women and children.” 

In the UK, the Norwich City Council reduced public Hanukkah celebrations to just one night, rather than the traditional eight, due to “security concerns.” In Berlin, Germany, a billboard campaign against antisemitism had one of its displays vandalized with slogans promoting Holocaust distortion. In France, model and influencer Warda Anwar was handed a ten-month jail sentence for a derisive remark about the murder of an Israeli baby by Hamas.

At the University of Manitoba in Canada, more than 70 antisemitic posters were discovered plastered on several campus buildings. At Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, an anti-Israel demonstration took place outside a Shabbat dinner on campus, with protestors chanting “Globalize the intifada.”

THIS WEEK’S GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT highlights 98 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 4 (4.08%) from the far-right, 68 (69.39%) from the far-left, 4 (4.08%) with Islamist motivations, and 22 (22.45%) unidentifiable in nature.