As Israel continues to root out Hamas in Gaza and search for the nearly 130 hostages still held there, antisemitism remains at elevated levels across the globe. In the United States, hundreds of synagogues and other Jewish institutions across the country received bomb threats by email last weekend, a further escalation of a disturbing trend that has grown in recent months. In Canton, Ohio, a 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with planning a mass shooting at the Temple Israel synagogue in the city.

Similar violent threats have targeted Jewish communities worldwide. In Ottawa, Canada, a teen was charged with the “facilitation of a terrorist activity by communicating instructional material related to an explosive substance” intended to be used against Jews. In Germany, authorities arrested four individuals affiliated with Hamas, who were suspected of planning attacks on Jewish sites in Berlin. In Denmark, seven men said to be acting on behalf of Hamas were arrested on suspicion of plotting a coordinated antisemitic terror attack. 

On college campuses across the globe, incidents of antisemitism continue to run rampant. At the London School of Economics, for example, the administration has been accused of turning a “blind eye” to professors who either celebrated or supported Hamas’s terror attacks on October 7th.

Acknowledging the ongoing rise of antisemitism at American schools, the U.S. House of Representatives has taken steps to promote accountability and transparency in higher education. First, it approved a resolution last week condemning the recent congressional testimonies by the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT in which they failed to explicitly say calls for genocide of Jews violated their anti-harassment and hate speech policies. This week, members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce sent a letter to the Department of Education, calling for stronger action to combat antisemitism.

THIS WEEK’S GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT highlights 93 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 6 (6.45%) from the far-right, 58 (62.37%) from the far-left, 12 (12.90%) with Islamist motivations, and 17 (18.28%) unidentifiable in nature.