Weekly Report - October 2nd | Combat Antisemitism Movement

Weekly Report – October 2nd

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.

Less than one week away from the one-year anniversary of October 7, Israel is under attack. On Tuesday, terrorists carried out a shooting in Jaffa, inflicting several casualties, and the Iranian regime launched around 180 ballistic missiles toward Israel. What should come of this attack is a wave from the West of support for strongly confronting the Iranian regime, the largest state sponsor of terrorism, and support for Israel in eliminating the terrorist threats and responding to the Iranian attacks in the time and scale it feels necessary.

In the wake of Israel’s successful operation to kill Hezbollah’s leader, anti-Israel activists around the world mourned the loss of a leading antisemite and terrorist leader. In the United States, the fervently antisemitic organization Within Our Lifetime (WOL) publicly mourned the loss of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. In Dearborn, Michigan a memorial service was held for Nasrallah, while in Australia protesters publicly displayed pro-Hezbollah signs commemorating Nasrallah in both Sydney and Melbourne.

On campus, at the University of Pittsburgh, a Jewish student was violently assaulted after assailants allegedly noticed his Star of David necklace and started hurling anti-Israel insults. This comes only a month after a keffiyeh-clad individual stabbed two kippah-wearing Jewish students. At George Mason University in Virginia, a

Islamic scholar delivered a sermon where he questioned the Holocaust and stated that the current “Holocaust” being perpetrated against Palestinians was “ten times worse.” A leading anti-Israel organization on American college campuses, Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), posted an Instagram story saying “‘death to israel’ is not just a threat. it is a moral imperative.”

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 95 new incidents, categorized as follows: 63 (66.3%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 19 (20.0%) as Islamist, 8 (8.4%) as classical antisemitism, 4 (4.2%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, and 1 (1.1%) as unattributable.

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NEW YORK: CONGRESSMAN’S OFFICE VANDALIZED

By LUKE TRESS

The uptown Manhattan district office of New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat and the surrounding area was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti on Thursday night. According to security footage police viewed at the scene the following morning, the vandalism took place at around 11 p.m., on a night when pro-Palestinian protests took place around the city, on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly. The district office is in a heavily Jewish area, close to several synagogues and Jewish schools. The graffiti covered a window that, for much of the past year, has displayed fliers with the faces of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. The office, which was closed Friday morning as police investigated, is regularly picketed by small groups of pro-Palestinian protesters.