A string of incidents this week served as a disturbing reminder that even as Jewish communities face a continued onslaught of anti-Zionist antisemitism worldwide in the aftermath of October 7th, “classical” manifestations of Jew-hatred frequently associated with the far-right also endure. A group of masked neo-Nazis waving swastika flags marched through the streets of downtown Columbus, Ohio, drawing condemnations from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and U.S. President Joe Biden. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stickers depicting far-right antisemitic imagery were plastered in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, where a white supremacist terrorist massacred 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018. 

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, police arrested a man who possessed dozens of weapons adorned with Nazi symbology, as well as Nazi paraphernalia. Meanwhile, in South Africa, left-wing politician Mehmet Vefa Dag, who has a long history of antisemitic vitriol, accused Jews of “trying to take over the world.”  

Threats from the Tehran regime, the world’s largest modern-day fomenter of terrorism and antisemitism, persist. In Canada, it was reported this week that law enforcement authorities recently thwarted an Iran-orchestrated assassination plot against renowned human rights lawyer and Jewish advocate Irwin Cotler.

In the Sydney suburb of Woollahra in Australia, vandals set a car ablaze and spray-painted anti-Israel hate speech on several cars and buildings.

Each of these incidents underscored the commonality of antisemitism in extremist ideologies across the globe. As Arno Michaelis, a reformed neo-Nazi who now works as an anti-hate interventionist, pointed out this week, Islamist and white nationalist radicals are linked by a hatred of the United States and Israel and a desire to murder Jews. 

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 121 new incidents, categorized as follows: 96 (79.3%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 8 (6.6%) as classical antisemitism,  4 (3.3%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 10 (8.3%) as Islamist, and 3 (2.5%) as unattributable.