Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, anti-Israel protesters demonstrated throughout Washington, DC. Protesters stormed the Cannon House Office Building, displaying banners falsely accusing Israel of committing “genocide” and attempting to force their way into the office of Congressman Dan Kildee. Other demonstrators chanted “Globalize the intifada” and carried signs calling for a “Final Solution” for the Zionists while waving the ISIS flag.

Outside the Watergate Hotel where Prime Minister Netanyahu stayed, protesters chanted “Death to the Jews.” The DMV Palestinian Youth Movement allegedly left maggots and crickets inside a hotel conference room, later taking credit and equating the prime minister with “mealworms and maggots.”

In Europe, ahead of the opening ceremonies for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a video was released showing a masked individual promising that “rivers of blood will flow through the streets of Paris” because “You provided Zionists with weapons, you helped murder our brothers and sisters, our children,” and “You invited the Zionists to the Olympic games.” In Malia, Greece, an Israeli Arab man was attacked on Crete by a group of assailants who heard him playing Hebrew music. They only stopped their brutal assault after the victim displayed his cross, indicating that he was Christian. 

Elsewhere around the world, a Chinese social media channel praised Hamas, adding that it would take Hamas only 2.5 more years to “successfully complete the unfinished project left behind by that failed art student [i.e. Adolf Hitler].” Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency announced that a Hamas terrorist cell comprised of Birzeit University students was planning to carry out a shooting attack until the plot was uncovered and disrupted. 

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 130 new incidents, categorized as follows: 79 (60.8%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 22 (16.9%) as Islamist,  20 (15.4%) as classical antisemitism, 7 (5.4%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, and 2 (1.5%) as unattributable.