As we near the 100-day mark since the October 7th attack, the past week saw an uptick in disruptive and violent anti-Israel protests across the globe. In New York City, anti-Israel activists blocked the Holland Tunnel and shouted “Go cry at home, b*tch” to a friend of Romi Gonen, a young Israeli woman being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. In Los Angeles, California, protestors burned an Israeli flag, assaulted a pro-Israel counter-demonstrator, and vandalized a cemetery. In Seattle, Washington, protesters defaced a Starbucks cafe and shut down a main highway.

In Chile, the mayor of Recoleta called Judaism a “supremacist” religion and compared it to Nazism. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Jewish community center that was attacked by Iran-backed terrorists in 1994 received a bomb threat. A Jewish-owned deli in Toronto was set on fire, with the words “Free Palestine” painted on the front doors. In the United Kingdom, a student was beaten outside of a London Jewish school and forced by his attackers to say “Free Palestine.” Also in London, Jewish residents of the Stamford Hill neighborhood were harassed and threatened with a fake gun.

In the Middle East, an ISIS spokesman called for global attacks against Jews, saying “Kill them wherever you find them.” A Palestinian Authority TV program claimed that Israel perpetrated the Holocaust and Jews baked Palestinian children in ovens. In Lebanon, mourners at the funeral for a Hamas leader chanted “Bomb Tel Aviv.”

Amid the surge of antisemitic incidents in the U.S., with new data reported this week showing a 360% increase after October 7th, states have begun to take actions to protect their Jewish communities. In Florida, a proposed bill would prohibit state ties with the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose executive director recently called the October 7th attack a source of “inspiration.” In its first official act of 2024, the Kansas State Legislature passed a resolution expressing support for Israel and denouncing rising antisemitism.

The Australian government banned the Nazi salute, swastika, and other hate symbols as the country deals with its own antisemitism spike. In Italy, General Pasquale Angelosanto was appointed as the new national antisemitism coordinator. And after three months of inaction, the United Nations sent an envoy to Israel this week to investigate the sexual crimes committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7th.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 105 new incidents, categorized as follows: 5 (4.76%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 21 (20.0%) as classical antisemitism, 64 (60.95%) as Israel-related, 12 (11.43%) as Islamist, and 3 (2.86%) as unattributable.