In New York City this week, a rabbi was assaulted by a man who called him a “dirty Jew.” Also in New York, the annual Israel Day Parade was protested by pro-Hamas demonstrators, with one of them holding a banner saying “Kill Hostages Now” and another displaying a phone with the message “They’re Not Coming Home.” In San Francisco, California, anti-Israel activists stormed the the Israeli consulate, and in Southfield, Michigan, the law firm of the only Jewish member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents was defaced with graffiti reading “Free Palestine,” “Divest Now,” and “F*** You Acker.”

An uptick in high-profile, violent incidents of antisemitism was monitored in Canada this week. Following last week’s shootings at two Jewish day schools, one in Montreal and one in Toronto, this week saw three Canadian synagogues vandalized. A Vancouver synagogue was targeted with an incendiary device, a Toronto synagogue had a window shattered, and a Kitchner synagogue also had its front window smashed by an unidentified assailant. Police are investigating all three incidents.

In Europe, the Israeli Embassy in Romania was attacked by a Syrian man with a Molotov cocktail. Numerous protests falsely accusing Israel of perpetrating a genocide in Gaza were held across France, in cities including Paris, Rennes, Marseille, Strasbourg, Lille, Montpellier, and Rouen. In Germany, the UN Conference on Climate Change was disrupted by anti-Israel activists who held a banner saying “No business as usual during genocide.”

This week, CAM held the first-ever Virginia Summit to Combat Antisemitism, convening leading decision-makers and activists from across the state to address common challenges and best practices in the collective effort to fight antisemitism. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin received CAM’s Civic Leadership Award for his dedication to fighting antisemitism and religious bigotry of all forms.

Also this week, American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer Montana Tucker released a poignant video, produced by CAM, featuring survivors of the Nova music festival massacre. The performance, dedicated to the memory of the 364 young women and men massacred on October 7th by Hamas at the Nova festival, was done with Lilach Friedman’s Dance Ensemble, which lost four members that day.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 118 new incidents, categorized as follows: 95 (80.5%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 7 (5.9%) as Islamist, 7 (5.9%) as classical antisemitism,  7 (5.9%) as unattributable, and 2 (1.7%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.