Weekly Report – May 30th
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.
As IDF operations in Rafah intensified, Israeli embassies around the world were targeted by protests and also acts of violence. Demonstrators amassed outside the Israeli embassies in Japan, France, and Portugal, while the embassy in Belgium was targeted with two airsoft grenades. Also this week, protesters in Mexico City attacked the Israeli embassy with Molotov cocktails, setting the building ablaze.
In the United States, the pro-Hamas student groups that helped organize the encampments on college and university campuses urged sustained activities over the summer, reposting a call to “escalate protests to an open intifada in every capital and city.” In Los Angeles, demonstrators called for “intifada” before blocking an interstate highway. In New Jersey, a secret recording captured Mayor of Linden Derek Armstead saying he wanted to prevent his city from “being taken over by guys with big hats and curls,” referring to the growing Orthodox Jewish population.
In Canada, the Toronto Jewish community and allies rallied together to respond to a shooting that occurred at a North York Jewish day school over the weekend. The incident was condemned by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Also in Toronto, a campaign office for an MP who has been a vocal supporter of the Jewish community was vandalized by anti-Israel activists who warned that “Rafah is burning. Toronto will too.” Elsewhere in Ontario, a doctor was removed from the editorial board of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada after writing to its sponsoring organization, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, to ask why it had failed to condemn the sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on October 7th.
In the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London, England, a 16-year-old Jewish boy was the victim of an antisemitic assault by three attackers who pelted him with rocks. Meanwhile, British guitarist Eric Clapton claimed in a recent interview that “Israel is running the world, Israel is running the show.” In Germany, local authorities arrested two men for planning a stabbing attack at a Heidelberg synagogue.
This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 120 new incidents, categorized as follows: 93 (77.5%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 11 (9.2%) as Islamist, 7 (5.8%) as classical antisemitism, 6 (5%) as unattributable, and 3 (2.5%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.
United States
French police stand guard as a forensics member collects evidence after officers shot dead an armed man earlier who set fire to the city's synagogue in Rouen, France, May 17, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS/GONZALO FUENTES)
An ANTI-ISRAEL protester glorifies the Intifada last November at the UC Davis Quad. (photo credit: Raphael Myers)
WORLD NEWS
CANADA
Fredericton Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigate apartment complex which was the scene of a shooting incident in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada August 10, 2018. (photo credit: REUTERS/Dan Culberson)
LATIN AMERICA
Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Gilberto Murillo speaks during an interview with Reuters in Bogota, Colombia May 25, 2024. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
WESTERN EUROPE
One community leader said the three assailants were 'yobs acting yobbishly' (Photo: Shomrim)
Synagogue Neustadt in Dresden. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA
Photo Courtesy of MEMRI
OTHER WORLD
The desecrated Wall of Hope, Melbourne, Australia (photo credit: Courtesy Zionism Victoria)
on campus
Protesters outside waving Palestinian flags during an attempted occupation of a building (Daily News)
Analysis & op-eds
Columbia faculty members protect students in the Pro-Palestinian “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in the West Lawn of Columbia University on April 29, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani after a meeting in Tehran in 2019. Credi: Press Office of the Government of Armenia.
An empty classroom. Photo: Wiki Commons.
Former Canadian justice minister and human rights advocate Irwin Cotler, Jerusalem, 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/The Times of Israel)
studies & statistics
Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists take part in a protest to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba in the Queens borough of New York on May 15, 2024. (Leonardo Munoz / Leonardo Munoz / AFP)
government & policy update
Governor Henry McMaster signs bill defining antisemitism (Youtube)
humanity
Photo: Jewish Chronicle