The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) was honored to join the Eradicate Hate Global Summit last week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The event marked the third annual edition of the summit, an initiative established in the wake of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue massacre to provide a multidisciplinary forum aimed at reducing hate-fueled violence. CAM facilitated the participation this year of UAE interfaith relations advocate H.E. Ahmed Obaid Al Mansoori, who highlighted Jewish-Muslim kinship in his keynote remarks.

The Biden administration announced on Thursday it was instructing eight cabinet departments to extend civil rights protections to victims of antisemitism and other forms of religious bigotry. This expansion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act will help counter manifestations of antisemitism in realms such as federally-funded transit systems, housing, and food programs. The White House also said it was organizing a “listening tour” of schools and colleges this fall to hear from Jewish students about hostility they face on campus.

On Monday, neo-Nazis attended a mayoral candidate assembly in Franklin, Tennessee. Shortly after, journalists who had covered the event were targeted in a seemingly coordinated campaign of online threats. Also this week, in a continuation of a growing nationwide trend in the U.S., at least seven virtual council meetings in California were “Zoom-bombed” by disruptors spewing hateful antisemitic rhetoric. 

In Germany, it was revealed a German-Israel Friendship Society activist was violently attacked outside an anti-Israel event in Munich he had been thrown out of in early September.  In France, a new survey showed that around 90% of Jewish college and university students had experienced antisemitism at school. The survey also found that more than 75% of Jewish students felt antisemitism was widespread across France’s higher education institutions. In Australia, a string of antisemitic vandalism incidents involving far-right symbols was reported following the conclusion of Yom Kippur. 

Also this week, leading American Jewish groups and legal organizations called on law firms across the globe to cut their support for the Outstanding Achievement Award being granted by the American branch of the International Law Association (ILA) to former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who is notorious for her long record of whitewashing terrorism, downplaying antisemitism, and holding Israel solely responsible for the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.

This week’s global antisemitism report highlights 38 new reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 31 (81.58%) from the far-right, 1 (2.63%) from the far-left, 5 (13.16%) with Islamist motivations, and 1 (2.63%) unidentifiable in nature.