The start of the fall semester saw a troubling proliferation of antisemitic incidents on college campuses across the United States, a new analysis produced by CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) showed. In September, the month preceding the first anniversary of the October 7th massacre, 65 campus incidents were recorded in 17 states — a stunning 622.2% increase from the nine incidents in five states during the same time period last year.

Concerning trends persist off-campus as well. American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates insinuated during a podcast interview this week that he might not be “strong enough” to deem the October 7th attack “too far” if he lived in Gaza, comparing the massacre to a slave rebellion. In Oakland, California, a restaurant featured a menu item named for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Both incidents reflect attempts to either rationalize or glorify antisemitic Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians, risking dilution of the memory of Hamas’ horrific crimes against Jews.

In Toronto, Canada, police were investigating gunshots fired toward a Jewish girls’ elementary school for the second time this year. In Argentina, vandals scrawled, “Serve the nation, kill a Jew” on a Simón Bolívar monument in a Buenos Aires park. In Paris, France, a mob attacked a Jewish boy while shouting “dirty Jew.”