The Combat Antisemitism Movement congratulates President-elect Donald Trump and newly elected and re-elected officials at all levels across the United States. With a concerning rise in antisemitism, highlighted by CAM’s recent survey showing that 3.5 million American Jews—over 60% of the U.S. Jewish population—have personally faced this threat, the incoming administration and public officials have a meaningful opportunity to make a difference. We look forward to collaborative efforts that ensure antisemitism has no place in American society, building a safer and more inclusive nation for all.

Amid this dire reality, we expect the incoming presidential administration and all public officials to take urgent and decisive action to stop the rise of antisemitism and ensure the world’s oldest hatred has no place in contemporary American society.

Law enforcement plays a critical role in this collective effort, and this week, Chicago police announced that hate crime and terrorism charges had been filed against the man who shot and injured a Jewish victim before opening fire on officers and first responders on Oct. 26.

Threats persist elsewhere in the United States as well. In Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, a 13-year-old Jewish boy was physically assaulted by a passerby on the street, and a man shouted “Jewish people are evil” and “Hitler was onto something” at patrons in a kosher restaurant. In the heavily-Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles, vandals targeted several Jewish businesses.

In Europe, German authorities arrested members of an antisemitic neo-Nazi group for an alleged rebellion plot against the state. In Hampstead, England, an anti-Israel activist group took responsibility for smashing the windows of and spraying red paint on a building affiliated with the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM).

20 of the incidents documented in this week’s Global Antisemitism Report involved vandalism – a 66.6% increase from the 12 recorded last week.

As we track these trends in contemporary antisemitic violence and vandalism, we will also pause this weekend to solemnly commemorate the 86th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom in Nazi Germany. The lessons of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust teach us the price of inaction in the face of growing hatred and bigotry. With the Jewish people coping with the worst uptick in antisemitism in the post-World War II era, the time is now for friends and allies everywhere to stand up and be counted to ensure the dark horrors of the past are not repeated.