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.