During a City Council discussion in Evanston, Illinois, on a proposed lease of an office building, several speakers, appearing both in person and via Zoom, made antisemitic remarks, including conspiracy theories and references to a rabbi emerging from a sewer with blood on his face. Law enforcement in Topeka, Kansas, were investigating vandalism reported by Temple Beth Sholom, where graffiti with an anti-Israel message was found at the entrance to the property.

In the United Kingdom, a member of the Scottish National Party claimed that criticism of Jews should not be viewed as antisemitic while arguing that Israel’s military response to Hamas in Gaza was “revenge.” In Germany, a man was physically and verbally assaulted in front of a Munich synagogue, with antisemitic slurs repeatedly uttered throughout the attack. Last Thursday, an Israeli man was killed and 11 other people were wounded in a shooting attack carried out by three Palestinian terrorists on a main road between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim. In Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva doubled down on his comments comparing Israel to the Nazis and the war in Gaza to the Holocaust. 

Protesters at McGill University’s Bronfman Building in Montreal, Quebec, blockaded entrances, accusing the administration of supporting genocide and demanding divestment from Israel, prompting class cancellations. Jewish students at UC Berkeley were forced to evacuate a campus theater as protesters chanting “Intifada! Intifada!” broke a glass door and disrupted a scheduled lecture by an Israeli attorney and IDF reservist. Several students were injured in the incident.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 77 new incidents, categorized as follows: 5 (6.50%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 9 (11.69%) as classical antisemitism, 56 (72.72%) as Israel-related of antisemitism, 4 (5.20%) as Islamist, and 3 (3.90%) as unattributable.