Weekly Report – May 11
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 in the U.S., nine people, including the perpetrator, were killed in a mass shooting at a shopping center in Allen, Texas. The assailant appears to have posted antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic messages on a social media account. In New York, a bigot in a graffiti-covered van chucked a rock at a Jewish man as he entered a Queens synagogue. On Capitol Hill, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib planned to host a “Nakba Day” event to commemorate the “catastrophe” of the State of Israel’s founding in 1948.
In Europe, alarming antisemitic incidents unfolded. In the UK, two men claiming to be affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group filmed themselves harassing a group of Jewish children near a north London day school. In Germany, a 21-year-old German man was found guilty of attempting to form a neo-Nazi terrorist group inspired by the U.S.-based Atomwaffen Division, in addition to planning attacks with guns and explosives. In the Netherlands, Dutch police arrested more than 150 soccer fans in Amsterdam after they chanted antisemitic slogans while on their way to a match.
In the Middle East, the mother of the Palestinian terrorist responsible for the murder of Lucy Dee and her two daughters Maia and Rina praised her son’s actions: “The Jews are our enemies, we should fight them, devour them with our teeth.” In Tunisia, at least five people were killed in a shooting attack near a synagogue in Djerba. The attack was carried out during an annual Lag Ba’Omer pilgrimage that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel.
Meanwhile, members of both houses of the U.S. Congress announced that they were introducing bipartisan Jewis American Heritage Month resolutions to honor the accomplishments of Jewish Americans and denounce rising antisemitism. Also, High Representative Miguel Moratinos, the UN’s point man for monitoring antisemitism, announced a meeting in Cordoba, Spain, on June 20th, to examine an action and response plan.
This week’s global antisemitism report highlights 53 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 24 (45.3%) from the far-right, 9 (17.0%) from the far-left, 13 (24.5%) with Islamist motivations, and 7 (13.2%) unidentifiable in nature.