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The CAM Antisemitism Research Center collects comprehensive antisemitism data from around the world on a constant basis, and publishes a regular feature on the top ten antisemitic incidents that shook Jewish communities globally during the preceding month.
The ten most shocking antisemitic incidents of May 2024 are as follows:
Shots Fired Outside Jewish Girls Elementary School in Toronto, None Injured
Two men opened fire on a North York Jewish girl’s school, damaging the building but, according to the Toronto Police Service, causing no injuries. Canadian police are looking for public aid in the search for the men who fled the scene of the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School shooting in a dark-colored vehicle.
Shocking security footage shows two men approach a Jewish elementary school in Toronto and open fire. Bullets shattered the school’s windows.
What does it say about Toronto that people feel they can get away with this? pic.twitter.com/VfrmRg2sCW
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 25, 2024
Protesters Target Auschwitz ‘March Of The Living’ Event
Anti-Israel demonstrators sparked outrage after staging a protest near the grounds of Auschwitz in Poland. Sirens wailed as protestors displayed a banner reading “Stop Genocide” at groups taking part in the annual “March of the Living” event marking Yom HaShoah, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance day.
You have to be a special kind of twisted to stand outside Auschwitz concentration camp and hold a sign that accuses Israel of committing genocide.
Leaving aside the simple fact that a war, not a genocide, is taking place, the cynical manipulation of the unprecedented,… pic.twitter.com/xv4nT6Usiw
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) May 16, 2024
Germany: Police Arrest Two Men Planning Synagogue Knife Attack
German police arrested two men who were accused of allegedly planning a knife attack at a synagogue in the southwestern city of Heidelberg. The suspects, an 18-year-old and 24-year-old, allegedly discussed “the killing of one or more visitors in the attack on the synagogue followed by death as martyrs, whereby the two persons wanted to be shot to death by police,” authorities said in a statement.
German police arrested two men who were accused of planning a knife attack on a synagogue in the southwestern city of Heidelberghttps://t.co/mpMdeH3ikH
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 24, 2024
Knife-Wielding Algerian Man Who Set Fire to Rouen Synagogue Shot Dead by French Police
French police shot dead a knife-wielding Algerian man who set fire to a synagogue and threatened police in the city of Rouen. “An armed man somehow climbed up the synagogue and threw an object, a sort of Molotov cocktail, into the main praying room,” said Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, adding that nobody else was harmed in the shocked city in the northwestern Normandy region. Police found the man on the synagogue roof with an iron bar and kitchen knife, shooting him when he defied orders to stop.
First image of the damage from this morning’s fire at the Rouen synagogue, caused by an Algerian migrant.
Almost everything inside was destroyed. It’s chilling to think what could have happened if congregants were there for the morning service…
Remember, this isn’t 1940. This… pic.twitter.com/AIBls3tCHH
— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) May 17, 2024
United Kingdom: Three Accused of Plot to Attack Jewish Community
Three men have appeared in court charged with terrorism offenses over an alleged plan for a gun attack targeting the Jewish community in England. The court heard Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein had intended to target “the Jewish community in the North West of England and members of both law enforcement and military.” The hearing was told the pair were accused of plotting an attack designed to cause “multiple fatalities using automatic weapons,” Prosecutor Rebecca Waller said the plot had been inspired by the Islamic State group.
Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein have been charged with the preparation of terrorist acts between 13 December 2023 and 9 May 2024.
The targets? British Jews.
This is the UK in 2024. pic.twitter.com/hmA9FLtGie
— David Collier (@mishtal) May 14, 2024
See also: United Kingdom: 16-Year-Old Jewish Boy Assaulted By 3 Racist Youths Who Threw Rocks At Him
Australia: Arrested Teen Wanted to ‘Target Jews,’ Say Police
Jewish leaders and political figures have called for a more urgent approach to strengthening anti-hate laws after a group of Sydney teenagers, calling themselves “Soldiers of Allah,” were charged over allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on Jews.
A group of six radicalised Sydney teenagers is suspected of planning to obtain weapons to target the city’s Jewish community ⬇️ https://t.co/LnqzAQAAJn
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) April 29, 2024
Bomb Threat Emailed to Nearly Two Dozen Jewish Sites in New York City
Authorities were investigating a disturbing bomb threat emailed to more than two dozen synagogues and Jewish institutions in the Big Apple — and to temples upstate and on Long Island.
Bomb threat emailed to nearly two dozen Jewish sites in NYC as disturbing text revealed: sources https://t.co/9tCDX96zVe pic.twitter.com/PKCH9GKslK
— New York Post (@nypost) May 5, 2024
See also: Jewish Children Assaulted In Brooklyn
North Carolina: US Man Threatened Synagogue He’d ‘Kill All the Jews and the Children’
A California man was arrested for threats against several North Carolina synagogues, law enforcement, and elected officials, including a threat to a rabbi that he would murder his congregants and their children, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
ADL Orange County/Long Beach commends the @USAO_EDNC for bringing charges against a Huntington Beach resident for sending threats to individuals and making false bomb threats at North Carolina synagogues and law enforcement offices. https://t.co/YmLR15lTwP pic.twitter.com/1rwXeUbCnQ
— ADL California (@ADLCalifornia) May 29, 2024
Turkey: Erdoğan Says Netanyahu’s ‘Genocidal Methods Would Make Hitler Jealous’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Adolf Hitler would be “jealous” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he called Israel’s “genocidal methods” in the Gaza Strip, doubling down on his past comparisons of the Israeli premier to the Nazi dictator.
Erdogan: ‘Netanyahu’s genocidal methods make Hitler jealous’ https://t.co/qgdw6zeUma
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) May 12, 2024
Examples of the overt and violent antisemitism on dozens of American campuses are deeply troubling. From vandalism targeting Jewish spaces to physical attacks on Jewish students, these incidents demonstrate the urgent need for concrete measures to address and combat antisemitism in all its contemporary forms. Instances of blatant antisemitism associated with “liberated zones” or encampments first surfaced at Columbia University before spreading throughout the country.
For more information on CAM’s antisemitism incidents data, please visit: combatantisemitism.org/research