Weekly Report – October 19
This Week's
GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT
THIS WEEK'S GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM REPORT
This week, we continued to monitor antisemitism around the world while advocating for more actions to be made.
Since Hamas’ brutal massacre of more than 1,300 Israelis on Oct. 7, Jewish communities worldwide have faced a wave of antisemitic acts incited by events in the Middle East. From San Francisco to New York. and Paris to Vienna, thousands of demonstrators have celebrated Hamas’ barbaric actions and called for violence against Jews.
In a despicable display of antisemitism in Sydney, Australia, anti-Israel protestors chanted “gas the Jews.” In New York City, marchers shouted “Israel go to hell.” In San Francisco, the windows of a downtown bank were vandalized with antisemitic graffiti. In the UK, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to condemn Hamas’ blatant crimes against humanity and attempted to draw a moral equivalence between the Israeli military and the genocidal Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas.
In the city of Arras in northeastern France, a man fatally stabbed a teacher at a school in an attack authorities believed was linked to Israel’s war with Hamas. In Berlin, multiple homes were defaced with Stars of David amid a significant rise in violent antisemitic incidents across Germany over the last week. In Australia, three men were arrested after performing a Nazi salute outside of the Holocaust Museum in Sydney.
Shock waves reverberating from the Hamas slaughter in southern Israel were felt on college campuses across the United States. At the University of Pennsylvania, hundreds of students and faculty staged a pro-Hamas walkout. At Stanford University, an instructor was suspended after ordering Jewish students to take their belongings and stand in a corner, telling them, “This is what Israel does to the Palestinians.”
Dozens of campuses across the U.S. saw students calling for “intifadas” and support of the “the resistance.” At the University of Wisconsin, pro-Hamas protestors chanted “glory to the martyrs.” At George Mason University, students recited: “They’ve got tanks, we’ve got hang gliders, glory to the resistance fighters.”
Following a report from Gaza about an explosion near a hospital, media outlets around the world accepted a Hamas’ narrative that Israel was to blame for the incident which resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. Despite extensive evidence demonstrating that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was to responsible for the misfiring of a rocket, many outlets and policymakers failed to make retractions or issue apologies. This misreporting sent shockwaves resulting in riottess protests in many cities and the firebombing of a synagogue in Germany, the destruction of a synagogue in Tunisia.
The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) is proud to stand with all Israelis and Diaspora Jews at this perilous moment in history. To support Israel in this hour of dire need, CAM has launched an Israel Emergency Support Fund, raising more than $200,000 so far. Your donations are being matched by CAM donors and will have a powerful impact in providing urgent aid to those affected by Hamas’ assault on Israel.
This Week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 106 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 14 (13.21%) from the far-right, 44 (41.51%) from the far-left, 40 (37.74%) with Islamist motivations, and 8 (7.54%) unidentifiable in nature.