The scourge of antisemitism on college campuses continues to threaten the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students. At the Columbia University Law School, the Student Senate rejected the application of Law Students Against Antisemitism (LSAA) because of its embrace of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism. The Student Senate dismissed the most widely-embraced and authoritative definition of antisemitism as “pernicious and insidious.” Also at Columbia University, posters were put up dehumanizing Israelis and portraying them as skunks, and mobile billboards parked around campus claimed “Israel is the New Nazi Germany.”

In Berlin, Germany, a Jewish student was beaten by a pro-Palestnian student. In Strasbourg, France, three members of the Union of Jewish Students of France were violently assaulted for putting up flyers of Israeli hostages. At City, University of London, a speaker asserted that Nazis were “good for Zionists” because they promoted separatism, going on to further posit that Hitler and Zionists both agreed that “Jews don’t belong in Europe.”

This week also saw several instances of Jewish cemeteries being desecrated around the world. A headstone was knocked over at the historic Jewish cemetery in Westersted, Germany. Also in Germany, in the town of Leer, the gate of a Jewish cemetery was destroyed and three headstones damaged by vandals. In Lodz, Poland, the Jewish cemetery was defaced with antisemitic phrases.

In the Middle East, it was reported that new Jordanian textbooks praise the October 7th Hamas massacre in Israel. An attempted stabbing was prevented near Jerusalem due to the quick intervention of Israeli law enforcement. Israel authorities also stopped an Islamist gunman from perpetrating a terrorist attack near Nablus.

Newly-elected Argentine President Javier Milei began his first international trip with a visit to Israel. After praying at the Western Wall, he promised to move the Argentine Embassy to Jerusalem, an announcement that was condemned by Hamas. In the United States, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to advance a bipartisan bill  to immediately and permanently cut off funding for UNRWA.

The Las Vegas City Council approved a resolution on Wednesday to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism and commit to use it as an educational tool for municipal agencies, including law enforcement.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 109 new incidents, categorized as follows: 4 (3.7%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 22 (20.2%) as classical antisemitism, 67 (61.5%) as Israel-related of antisemitism, 6 (5.5%) as Islamist, and 10 (9.2%) as unattributable.