Weekly Report – July 18th
This Week's
GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT
THIS WEEK'S GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT
This week, we continued to monitor antisemitism around the world while advocating for more actions to be made.
Mere hours after the attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump last Saturday, antisemitic conspiracy theories were already circulating online blaming Jews or Israel for the shooting. A Center for Countering Digital Hate report found that five posts falsely asserting that Jews or Israel were behind the incident received more than 8.8 million views.
Elsewhere in the United States, the city of Nashville in Tennessee was the scene of several Goyim Defense League (GDL) rallies and disruptions in recent days. On Sunday, the GDL marched in downtown Nashville carrying swastika flags, and one demonstrator used a flag to assault a local bartender. On Monday, GDL members waved Nazi flags and a banner from an I-65 overpass in Nashville. The following day, the white supremacists rallied outside the Metro Courthouse in Nashville and spewed antisemitic beliefs at a city council meeting.
Protesters from across the ideological spectrum targeted synagogues in the United States and Australia this week Again in Nashville, Tennessee, the GDL protested outside a Nashville synagogue and distributed antisemitic literature in the area. In New York City, anti-Israel activists protested outside a synagogue, waving the flag of Hezbollah. The demonstrators also called for an “intifada” and assaulted a Jewish counter-protester. In Australia, anti-Israel activists hung a banner reading “Sanction Israel” outside the Great Synagogue in Sydney.
In Europe, German authorities are investigating 23 suspected far-right incidents that occurred during the European Football Championship. Also in Germany, a Berlin high school was hit by an arson attack motivated by anti-Israel sentiment, expressed in vandalism left by the perpetrators: “Burn Gaza, burn Berlin.” Anti-Israel protesters in the United Kingdom vandalized a London war memorial with the words “180,000 killed,” a reference to an inaccurate death toll figure in Gaza.
This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 115 new incidents, categorized as follows: 58 (50.4%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 44 (38.3%) as classical antisemitism, 10 (8.7%) as Islamist, 3 (2.6%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, and 0 (0%) as unattributable.
United States
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WORLD NEWS
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