As the world rang in 2024, the wave of antisemitism set off by Hamas’ October 7th attack in Israel continued to sweep across the globe. At Times Square in New York City, anti-Israel protesters tried to disrupt New Year’s Eve celebrations. Similarly, during the holiday week, demonstrators blocked entrances to major airports in New York and Los Angeles, chanting “From the river to the sea,” among other genocidal rhetoric. Also in Los Angeles, an unidentified man shouting antisemitic invective threw a brick through the window of Jewish family’s car outside their home in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood.

In Canada, shoppers were harassed by anti-Israel protesters in Montreal, and demonstrators marching through a predominantly Jewish area of Toronto chanted “Go Back to Poland.” In Berlin, Germany, a Kindertransport Holocaust memorial was vandalized following an anti-Israel protest. In Bareclona, Spain, maps of Jewish and Israeli-owned businesses were shared on social media, alongside descriptions of them as “collaborators of the Palestinian genocide” and calls for them to be boycotted. In Kenya, an American man was arrested for attempting to aid the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, with the U.S. Justice Department alleging he was motivated by the October 7th atrocities.

In the international diplomatic arena, anti-Israel entities stepped up their efforts to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state. The South African government filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague last Friday, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gave a speech in Ankara in which he ludicrously claimed “What Netanyahu is doing is no less than what Hitler did.” In the United States, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib called the Israeli prime minister a “genocidal maniac” and accused Congress members who met with him of “supporting a war criminal.”

Almost a month after her widely-panned congressional testimony on rising campus antisemitism, Harvard University President Claudine Gay stepped down from her position on Tuesday, making her tenure the shortest-ever for a Harvard president. Gay had faced growing pressure to resign in recent weeks over her failure to explicitly say that calls for the genocide of Jews violated campus anti-harassment policies, as well revealations of suspected plagiarism in past academic works she authored.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 89 new incidents, categorized as follows: 3 (3.37%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 14 (15.73%) as classical antisemitism, 60 (67.42%) as Israel-related, 12 (13.48%) as Islamist. 

The ARC has developed a new classification system to more accurately reflect the dynamic evolution of manifestations of antisemitism.