This week, antisemitic hate speech, attacks, and vandalism continued to roil North America, with a notable spate of incidents in Canada. In Toronto, an attacker smashed the windows of two different synagogues, and a Jewish man displaying Israeli flags on his car found his vehicle’s windows shattered. At a Montreal cemetery, a vandal arranged stones into the shape of a swastika on a Jewish headstone. Canadian lawmaker Pierre Poilievre said in response to this act of hateful desecration, “We cannot close our eyes to the disgusting acts of antisemitism that are happening in our country every day.”

In the United States, a Louisiana imam said during a sermon, “Oh Allah, annihilate the Jews and their helpers,” and in Baltimore, Maryland, up to ten Jewish families’ homes were graffitied with swastikas. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott denounced the crimes, saying, “To those individuals who are responsible, we only have one message: these antisemitic acts are despicable, and you will be held accountable.”

In a particularly shocking attack in Serbia, an assailant used a crossbow to shoot a police officer who was guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade. According to Serbian authorities, the attacker had links to Islamist radicals. 

Western Europe also experienced violent and threatening antisemitic incidents this week. When Rabbi Arnold Saunders, a parliamentary candidate, visited the Bilal mosque in Prestwich, England, a mob harassed him, shouting, “Don’t come to the house of Allah and try to engage with us when we know that when you’re in your own places you’re saying it is good that they kill the children.” In Nice, France, a Jewish school’s security guard was attacked when he attempted to stop a group from hurling insults at Jewish children as they left the premises.

In an egregious display of discrimination, Turkish airport officials refused to refuel an El Al flight that made an emergency landing in Antalya after a passenger suffered a medical emergency, forcing the plane to stay on the tarmac for three hours.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 111 new incidents, categorized as follows: 75 (67.6%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 12 (10.8%) as Islamist, 6 (5.4%) as unattributable, 18 (16.2%) as classical antisemitism, and 0 (0%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.