This past weekend, neo-Nazis demonstrated in both Winter Park, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee, holding a banner reading “Jews Love Genocide.” In Lauderhill, Florida, an elderly Jewish man was brutally beaten while walking to synagogue. In Washington, DC, a flyer depicting a recently-rescued Israeli hostage was vandalized outside the office of Congressman Josh Gottheimer. In New Mexico and Arizona, two music venues canceled the scheduled appearance of Jewish musician Matisyahu, citing unsubstantiated “safety concerns.” 

In France, police arrested a suspect accused of an antisemitic stabbing attack that wounded a 35-year-old man. In Belgium, an imam invited to recite a prayer at the Belgian Parliament recited a verse calling on Muslims to capture and kill Jews. In the United Kingdom, a North Yorkshire councilor was suspended after it was revealed that she had posted antisemitic comments online, calling Jews “evil” and “vile.” In South Africa, MP Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam accused opposition parties supporting the “genocide that’s taking place in Palestine,” adding, “We will not allow you to make this a Jewish state.” 

In remarks at an African Union summit, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva equated Israel with Nazi Germany, prompting swift condemnation from Israel for what was deemed blatant Holocaust distortion and antisemitism. Major Jewish organizations in Brazil also decried this “perverse distortion,” which came after South America’s largest nation experienced a nearly 1000% surge in antisemitism in the month following the October 7th Hamas massacre in Israel.

Antisemitism continued to sweep across college campuses around the world this week. In Australia, the words “We Love Hitler,” accompanied by a swastika, were spray-painted on the chapel at Campion College. At Harvard University in Massachusetts, flyers of Israeli hostages were defaced with fake blood. Also at Harvard, the recently-created “Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine” posted a virulently antisemitic cartoon depicting a hand with a Star of David lynching Black and Arab men. The University of Oklahoma had a bomb scare, as pro-Hamas protesters left an antisemitic sign and suspicious package on campus.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 93 new incidents, categorized as follows: 6 (6.45%) as Holocaust minimization or distortion, 18 (19.35%) as classical antisemitism, 58 (62.37%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 4 (4.30%) as Islamist, and 7 (7.53%) as unattributable.