The United States experienced an abhorrent string of antisemitic vandalism incidents this week, including on Capitol Hill, when hostage posters were torn down from the wall of Illinois Congressman Brad Schneider’s office. Over the weekend, the Chabad Jewish Center in Oakland, California, was vandalized for the second time in two weeks by an assailant who smashed the first layer of one of the building’s windows. In Massachusetts, unknown perpetrators spray-painted monuments in the Boston Common and Public Garden with anti-Israel and anti-American phrases, including “End Zionism” and “Amerikkka.”

Shocking antisemitism continued to proliferate in Canada as well, prompting denunciations from political leaders. The Vancouver chapter of the anti-Israel group Samidoun protested a softball tournament in which an Israeli team participated, holding signs that equated the Israeli flag to the Nazi swastika. The demonstrators reportedly harassed Jewish children and their parents. Denouncing the incident, British Columbia Premier David Eby said, “This is unacceptable. Hate has no place in our province.”

In Australia, meanwhile, protesters managed to reach the roof of the country’s parliament building in Canberra and unfurl banners displaying the words “war crimes,” “no peace on stolen land,” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Additional anti-Israel demonstrations took place in Sydney and Melbourne.

Massive demonstrations in support of the Houthis were also reported in Sana’a, Yemen, featuring numerous signs displaying the Houthis’ slogan, “God is great, death to the U.S., death to Israel, curse the Jews, and victory for Islam.” 

The U.S. State Department’s 2023 Report on Religious Freedom that was released this week highlighted the continued prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes and tropes in Qatari school textbooks.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 101 new incidents, categorized as follows: 69 (68.3%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 14 (613.9%) as classical antisemitism, 9 (8.9%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion,, 5 (5.0%) as Islamist, and 4 (4.0%) as unattributable.