Weekly Report – June 14th
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.
This week, two major anti-Israel protests in the United States saw explicit displays of antisemitism. On Saturday, demonstrators outside the White House in Washington, D.C. vandalized Lafayette Square and spray-painted a sidewalk with graffiti saying “All Zionists Are Bastards.” Signs seen at the protest included one stating that “LGBTQ” stood for “Let’s Bomb Tel-Aviv Quickly.” Another defaced monument read “F*ck Israel. Stand With Hamas,” while a nearby protester denied the rape of Israeli women on October 7th and expressed support for Hamas. Other demonstrators called for Hezbollah to “Kill Another Zionist Now.”
In New York City, a “Day of Rage” was organized by pro-Hamas protesters who targeted a Lower Manhattan exhibit commemorating the Israelis murdered on October 7th at the Nova music festival. A banner was displayed reading “Long Live October 7th,” the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas were flown, and a protester displayed a sign saying “The Zionists Are Not Jews and Not Humans. They Are the Evil of the World.” Also at the demonstration, a Free Press reporter was swarmed and assaulted by protesters, and one told Jewish residents of New York “I wish Hitler was still here, he would’ve wiped you all out.”
In Barcelona, Spain, an Israeli man was assaulted for wearing a kippah, with his assailants shouting “F*ck Israel” while carrying out the attack. This incident occurred the same week the Spanish government decided to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. In the United Kingdom, the Green Party was investigating claims of widespread antisemitism after it received a dossier alleging that 20 of its candidates to serve in the British Parliament “shared antisemitic slurs and conspiracy theories.”
Elsewhere in the world, the lone synagogue in the Armenian capital of Yerevan was desecrated by unknown assailants for the fourth time in the past year. Israeli embassies in Tokyo, Japan, and the Manila suburb of Taguig in the Philippines, were picketed by pro-Hamas demonstrators accusing Israel of committing “genocide.” In Australia, the U.S. Consulate in Sydney was vandalized with pro-Hamas graffiti.
This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 168 new incidents, categorized as follows: 143 (85.1%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 12 (7.1%) as Islamist, 7 (4.2%) as classical antisemitism, 3 (1.8%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, and 3 (1.8%) as unattributable.
United States
Anti-Israel protesters hold a banner hailing the Hamas terror group's military wing and calling for "jihad of victory or martyrdom," across from the White House in Washington, June 9, 2024. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Red paint covers portions of the entrance to the German consulate building, June 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Sophie Rosenbaum)
WORLD NEWS
CANADA
A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2017. (photo credit: CHRIS WATTIE/REUTERS)
LATIN AMERICA
WESTERN EUROPE
A man is seen cursing an Israeli in Barcelona, before the Israeli was assaulted on June 9, 2024 (Screencapture X : used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares holds a press conference at his ministry headquarters in Madrid on June 6, 2024. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA
OTHER WORLD
Yerevan's only synagogue was attacked again on June 10 when perpetrators threw rocks through a window. (RFE/RL)
Analysis & op-eds
Pro-Palestinian protestors gather after police cleared a new encampment of on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on May 23, 2024. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images
PROTESTERS GATHER at an encampment in support of Palestinians at McGill University’s campus in Montreal in April. According to the writer, too many students are harassed for being Jews; it’s an ‘inexcusable failure’ of the Trudeau government. (photo credit: Peter McCabe/Reuters)
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is interviewed remotely by reporters from the German national weekly newspaper “Die Zeit.” Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo.
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THE WRITER and US Rep. Mike Lawler, co-sponsor of the Antisemitism Awareness Act, pose after the legislation passed in the House of Representatives. (photo credit: Karen Paikin-Barall)