The U.S. Justice Department filed charges this week against a 20-year-old Pakistani student living in Canada over a suspected terrorist plot against Jewish institutions in New York City around the upcoming October 7th anniversary. American authorities also announced the arrest of two white supremacist leaders of “Terrorgram Collective,” a transnational terrorist network that solicited hate crimes targeting Jews and other minority groups. 

A city council meeting in Richmond, Virginia, was disrupted by an anti-Israel activist, while an election board meeting in Cobb County, Georgia, near Atlanta, ended early after a man shouted “Heil Hitler” at a Jewish board member. In Searington, New York, a synagogue sign was vandalized with red blood. In Charlotte, North Carolina, vandals spray-painted a swastika and antisemitic messages on a YMCA. 

In Europe, French authorities revealed they had foiled a plot to attack Israelis during the recent 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris. At its party conference, the Green Party of the United Kingdom voted to call Israel’s ongoing military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip a “genocide.” At the Venice Film Festival in Italy, a director also falsely accused Israel of perpetrating a “genocide” in Gaza. 

In the Middle East, the past week saw two deadly terrorist attacks carried out against Israeli citizens. On Saturday, a Jordanian man shot and killed three Israelis working at the Allenby Border Crossing. On Wednesday, a Palestinian terrorist drove a truck into a guard post adjacent to a bus stop at Giv’at Asaf, near Jerusalem, killing one IDF soldier.

In Australia, more than 35 locations in the city of Sydney were vandalized with pro-Hamas graffiti. Anti-Israel protesters marching in Melbourne clashed violently with law enforcement, injuring two dozen officers. Also in Melbourne, an anti-Israel group targeted a Jewish school and its students online, calling for the suspension of government funding for the institution and publishing photos of former and current students.

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 157 new incidents, categorized as follows: 133 (84.7%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 11 (7.0%) as Islamist, 8 (5.1%) as classical antisemitism, 3 (1.9%) as unattributable,  and 2 (1.3%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.