With college graduation ceremonies underway across the U.S. this week, incidents of on-campus antisemitism remained concerningly high. At Duke University, approximately 30 graduates protested Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement address by walking out, waving Palestinian flags, and shouting “Free Palestine.” At Northeastern University, members of the law school graduating class unfurled a banner reading “I refuse to be hooded. NUSL oppresses pro-Palestinian students” and wore shirts saying “Divest from genocide.” At Temple University, the Jewish AEPi fraternity house was vandalized with “Free Palestine” graffiti.

Elsewhere in the U.S., handwritten flyers were distributed in Chicago accusing “Talmudic Jews” of being behind COVID-19 and of committing genocide against Germans and Eastern Europeans. In New Jersey, a man in a grocery store screamed that Jews were “humanity’s enemies” and “murdering f*cking scum.” It was also revealed that the YouTube page of New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman had perpetuated the antisemitic conspiracy theory that “Blacks are the real Jews.”

In Europe, the presence of Israeli pop star Eden Golan at the Eurovision competition spurred thousands of anti-Israel activists to demonstrate outside the venue, demanding her exclusion solely because she was Israeli. During her performance, some audience members booed and chanted “Free Palestine.” A Belgian broadcaster disrupted its Eurovision coverage to display a graphic condemning “the violations of human rights by the State of Israel.” In France, the Paris Holocaust Memorial was vandalized with “bloody” red hands, a potential allusion to the 2000 Ramallah lynching of two IDF reservists during the Second Intifada. In the United Kingdom, police prevented an ISIS-inspired Islamist terrorist attack against the Jewish community of Greater Manchester.

In the Middle East, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “genocidal methods would make Hitler jealous.” Elsewhere in Türkiye, pro-Hamas protests were held in the cities of Istanbul and Diyarbakir. In South Africa, the government continued its campaign to delegitimize and demonize the State of Israel by hosting a “Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine.”

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 116 new incidents, categorized as follows: 86 (74.1%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 11 (9.5%) as classical antisemitism, 10 (8.6%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 7 (6.0%) as Islamist, and 2 (1.7%) as unattributable.