The plague of on-campus antisemitism continued this week, with a University of Michigan student assaulted on the street after confirming his Jewish identity to his attackers. At the University of Pennsylvania, anti-Israel activists vandalized a statue of the university’s founder, Benjamin Franklin. The Columbia University Apartheid Divest organization shared a post on Instagram saying, “All Zionist infrastructure… are legitimate targets,” a clear statement of incitement against the Jewish community. The University of Southern California (USC) bookstore offered for sale t-shirts that depicted a Palestinian state in place of Israel and the words, “Stand for Freedom.”

In Boston, Massachusetts, a man self-immolated outside the Israeli Consulate. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hate crimes hearing, a protester disrupted Senator Ted Cruz as he was speaking, shouting, “F*** Israelis” and “F*cking Jews.” In Bloomington, Indiana, a piece of wood with a swastika drawn on it was discovered at a local synagogue. In Norman, Oklahoma, a man was attacked by a group of assailants yelling “Dirty Jew.”

In Europe, a memorial in a Paris suburb for Mireille Knoll and Sarah Halimi, two elderly French Jewish women murdered in antisemitic hate crimes in recent years, was defaced with a swastika. Antisemitic messages and red paint were found on the entrance to the Jewish Museum of Cagliari in Italy. Also in Italy, Jewish organizations called for the removal of an art exhibit perpetuating antisemitic tropes. In the United Kingdom, anti-Israel activists stormed a BBC office in Manchester, accusing the news organization of “false coverage” and “lying about this ongoing 11-month genocide to prop up the Zionist regime.”

Last week’s surge in Australian incidents of antisemitism persisted this week as once again a vandal painted “Hamas” throughout Sydney. Also in Sydney, an anti-Israel protester held a sign portraying Israel as a spider above the words “Zionist venom.” Demonstrators in Melbourne also slandered Israel, falsely accusing it of “genocide” and of being the “real terrorists.” 

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 106 new incidents, categorized as follows: 88 (83.0%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 6 (5.7%) as classical antisemitism,  6 (5.7%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion, 3 (2.8%) as Islamist, and 3 (2.8%) as unattributable.