In his Academy Awards acceptance speech, director Jonathan Glazer claimed Judaism and the Holocaust had been “hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.” CAM CEO Sacha Roytman denounced Glazer for leveraging his religious and ethnic identity to demonize Israel for its military actions against Hamas – the terror group responsible for the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. 

U.S. Congresswoman Cori Bush played into classical antisemitic tropes of Jewish power and influence with a tweet this week alleging that AIPAC was responsible for the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2023. In Brooklyn, New York, a 15-year-old Jewish girl was punched at a bus stop. In Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, a Jordanian man was arrested by police after threatening Orthodox Jews with a sharp object. In Ohio and Virginia, anti-Israel activists protesting “genocide” in Gaza blocked interstate highways.

In Italy, three Palestinians were detained after authorities uncovered a plot to carry out terrorist attacks targeting Jews. Officials said the accused men were connected to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is part of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party. Also this week, Russian authorities reported they had thwarted an Islamic State-inspired attack against a Moscow synagogue.

In the Middle East, a visiting U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom delegation left Saudi Arabia early after Saudi officials repeatedly demanded that a Jewish rabbi remove his kippah. In Israel, IDF soldiers thwarted an attempt by a Palestinian terrorist to carry out a suicide attack in Tel Aviv. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Turkey “firmly backed” Hamas and compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, highlighting the rise in antisemitic incidents in Turkey in the aftermath October 7th, a disturbing trend previously examined by CAM.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 141 new incidents, categorized as follows: 7 (5.0%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 7 (5.0%) as classical antisemitism, 107 (75.9%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 15 (10.6%) as Islamist, and 5 (3.5%) as unattributable.