As the fall semester gets underway at colleges and universities across the globe, the scourge of on-campus antisemitism is rearing its ugly head once again. A man wearing a keffiyeh stabbed two students at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday. At McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, pro-Hamas students tore up new sod that had been planted to replace grass damaged by their protest encampment last spring. At the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, a pig’s head was impaled on a fence post with a nearby banner reading “Pigs Off Campus.” Elsewhere on campus, a vandal spray-painted the word “Genocide.”

At Hunter College in New York, demonstrators carried banners reading “Bring the War Home” and “Hillel Go to Hell.” City College of New York Hillel students eating at a kosher restaurant were harassed by activists who told them, “Back to Brooklyn, out of the Middle East.” At Columbia University, protesters attempted to prevent students from accessing campus and vandalized the Alma Mater statue. At Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, demonstrators chanted “Globalize the Intifada” outside the university’s Hillel Center.  

In Yonkers, New York, a barber was attacked with scissors by a man screaming, “I want to kill you, you f*cking Jew.” In Florida, authorities arrested the man responsible for sending a bomb threat to a Miami Beach synagogue, and members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched through downtown Tallahassee. 

In Caulfield, Australia, a Jewish child was physically assaulted, and Jewish children playing soccer were called “Jewish dogs.” In Sydney, anti-Israel activists plastered grocery products with flyers calling for shoppers to avoid items that “contribute” to Israeli “occupation” and “genocide.” Anti-Israel demonstrations were also held around the country, including in the cities of Melbourne and Fairfield.  

This week’s Global Antisemitism Report highlights 130 new incidents, categorized as follows: 104 (80.0%) as anti-Israel or anti-Zionist manifestations of antisemitism, 10 (7.7%) as classical antisemitism, 6 (4.6%) as unattributable, 5 (3.9%) as Islamist,  and 5 (3.9%) as Holocaust minimization and distortion.