ARC Introduces New Regional Categorizations for Documenting Antisemitic Incidents

This week, the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM implemented new regional categorizations for documenting antisemitic incidents in its Global Antisemitism Report, allowing greater precision and specificity in its geographic data.

Regional categorizations now include:

• United States
• Canada
• Mexico
• Central America and Caribbean
• South America
• Western Europe
• Central Europe
• Eastern Europe
• Southeast Europe
• Scandinavia
• Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)
• Australia
• Central Asia
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• East Asia
• Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa
• Oceania

Interested readers can view the country-level breakdowns of each regional division below. All forthcoming ARC analyses of data recorded since the start of 2025 will utilize the system outlined here.  

1. United States (including states and territories)

2. Canada (including provinces and territories)

3. Mexico

4. Central America and Caribbean

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Antigua and Barbuda
• The Bahamas
• Barbados
• Cuba
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Grenada
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago

5. South America

• Argentina (Southern Cone region)
• Bolivia (Northern Cone region)
• Brazil (Southern Cone region)
• Chile (Southern Cone region)
• Colombia (Northern Cone region)
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay (Southern Cone region)
• Peru
• Suriname
• Uruguay (Southern Cone region)
• Venezuela (Northern Cone region)

6. Western Europe

• Andorra
• Belgium
• France (including French Guiana)
• Germany
• Ireland
• Italy
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Monaco
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• San Marino
• Spain
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom (including Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands)
• Vatican City

7. Central Europe

• Austria
• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Slovakia
• Slovenia

8. Eastern Europe

• Belarus
• Bulgaria
• Estonia
• Georgia (Caucasus region)
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Moldova
• Poland
• Romania
• Russia
• Ukraine

9. Southeast Europe

• Albania
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Greece
• Kosovo
• Montenegro
• North Macedonia
• Serbia

10. Scandinavia

• Denmark (including Greenland)
• Finland
• Iceland
• Norway
• Sweden

11. Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)

• Algeria
• Armenia (Caucasus region)
• Azerbaijan (Caucasus region)
• Bahrain
• Egypt
• Gaza
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Morocco
• Oman
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Syria
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• United Arab Emirates
• West Bank/Judea and Samaria
• Western Sahara
• Yemen

12. Australia (including states)

13. Central Asia

• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan

14. South Asia

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• India
• Maldives
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka

15. Southeast Asia

• Brunei
• Cambodia
• East Timor (Timor-Leste)
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

16. East Asia

• China
• Japan
• North Korea
• South Korea
• Mongolia
• Taiwan

17. Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Republic of the Congo
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Djibouti
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• The Gambia
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Senegal
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

18. Oceania

• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu