The proliferation of anti-Israel encampments on college campuses across the U.S. continued this week, producing an alarmingly high number of antisemitic incidents. Protesters at the University of Pennsylvania shouted “Liar, liar colonizer” at a screening of raw footage of the October 7th massacre perpetrated by Hamas. At the University of North Carolina, a Jewish graduate student had the antisemitic slur “k*ke’ graffitied on the front door of his residence. Students at Rochester University seized Wallis Hall, renaming it “Resistance Hall,” and refused to leave until their demands, including the university’s divestment from Israel, were met. 

Encampments and anti-Israel protests have also been seen at universities in other countries around the world, mirroring the disturbing trend in the U.S. This has happened in Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey, the UK, Italy, Canada, Denmark, Cuba, Argentina, and Japan.  

Back in the U.S., 24 New York Jewish institutions, primarily synagogues, received emailed bomb threats on Saturday. American rapper Macklemore, previously criticized for wearing an antisemitic costume, released a song in support of the campus encampments, accusing Israel of both “apartheid” and “genocide.” In both Georgia and Alabama, flyers distributed by the Goyim Defense League claimed Jews “control the media” and accused the “Jewish mafia” of “hijacking our country.” 

In Europe, British comedian Dave Baptiste is under police investigation after threatening the life of a Jewish colleague, telling the “Zionist comedian” that she should “sit down with your husband and kids and imagine what their lives will be without you.” In Denmark, a memorial commemorating the Danish protection of Jews from the Nazis was vandalized for the second time in less than a year. In Poland, a “March of the Living” event held at Auschwitz was protested by anti-Israel activists. 

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 136 new incidents, categorized as follows: 96 (70.6%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 27 (19.9%) as unattributable, 6 (4.4%) as classical antisemitism, 5 (3.7%) as Islamist, and 2 (1.5%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.