Weekly Report – June 18, 2026
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.
The Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM documented 16 incidents of vandalism this week, a 77.8% increase from the previous week.
Incidents included the spray-painting of “Genocide” on a public Hanukkiyah in Temuco, Chile, the discovery of antisemitic graffiti for the second time in a year at a high school in Urbana, Maryland, and the defacement of a church in Hobart, Australia, with swastikas and the words “Hitler is God.”
Incidents included the spray-painting of “Genocide” on a public Hanukkiyah in Temuco, Chile, the discovery of antisemitic graffiti for the second time in a year at a high school in Urbana, Maryland, and the defacement of a church in Hobart, Australia, with swastikas and the words “Hitler is God.”
Foiled White House Attack Plot Targeted Pro-Israel Lawmakers
One of the detained suspects involved a thwarted terror plot to attack last Sunday’s “UFC Freedom 250” event at the White House with explosive drones and gunfire had identified lawmakers linked to the “pro-Israel lobby” as potential targets, an unsealed criminal complaint said.
Other incidents monitored by the ARC worldwide this week included:
Other incidents monitored by the ARC worldwide this week included:
- United States: Footage from a FIFA World Cup match in Los Angeles showed security personnel confiscating an Israeli flag from a fan while Palestinian flags were not removed.
- Canada: The Toronto Police warned that criminal “gun-for-hire” networks were recruiting young people through encrypted messaging platforms to carry out attacks on Jewish schools and synagogues.
- France: At a City Council meeting in Perpignan, local elected official Annabelle Brunet performed a Nazi salute.
- Belarus: President Alexander Lukashenko compared Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust and invoked a longstanding trope alleging “Jewish lobby” control of U.S. foreign policy.
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