

Antisemitism Monitor
BY IRA N. FORMAN | 2023 | in Jewish World

Antisemitism Monitor
The Antisemitism Monitor reports antisemitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis.
View incidents from 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. See the country-by-country breakdown.
BY IRA N. FORMAN | 2023
Antisemitism Monitor
BY IRA N. FORMAN | 2023 | in Jewish World
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United States
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia Herzegovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
European Union
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Maurtania
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Morocco
New Zealand
North Macedonia
Norway
Pakistan
Palestinian Territories
Paraguay
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Scotland
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Vatican City
Venezuela
Yemen
Afghanistan
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Albania
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Algeria
January 10: Government backed Algerian newspaper publishes an antisemitic diatribe against a French Jewish historian who was born in Algeria (Algemeiner)
Argentina
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Armenia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Australia
February 2: New South Wales Jewish cemetery headstones vandalized with Nazi stencils (ABC News)
January 30: Sale of Nazi-themed merchandise halted after negative reaction (Times of Israel)
January 26: Annual report on antisemitism released by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry find that COVID conspiracy theories help drive antisemitic incidents (The Canberra Times)
Azerbaijan
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Bahrain
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Belarus
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Belgium
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Bosnia Herzegovina
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Brazil
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Bulgaria
February 1: Jewish cemetery in Belgrade vandalize with antisemitic graffiti (European Jewish Press)
Canada
January 26: Survey finds of 1,100 Canadians finds knowledge of the Holocaust is weak and worsening with time (Montreal Gazette)
January 24: Montreal court convicts Canadian neo-Nazi guilty of fomenting hatred against Jews in his writings (The Algemeiner)
January 14: Article on antisemitism at the Termerty Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto (University World News)
January 10: Two students face hate crime charges after an antisemitic incident involving displaying hate symbols and using antisemitic language at the Sir Robert Borden High School in Ottawa, Canada (CTV News)
Chile
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
China
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Colombia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Croatia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Cyprus
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Czech Republic
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Denmark
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Egypt
January 23: Israel concerned over antisemitic books being sold at Cairo book fair (Times of Israel)
Eritrea
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Estonia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Ethiopia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

European Union (EU)
January 26: Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, in front of EU parliament says criticism of Israel is OK but questioning Israel’s right to exist is not (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Finland
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
France
February 3: The global music company, BMG, signed and then dropped a French rapper, Freeze Corleone, who has been condemned for his antisemitic lyrics (The New York Times)
January 10: Louis Vuitton criticized for hiring model and anti-Israel activist who has accused the Jewish state of colonization and ethnic cleansing, Bella Hadid, for an advertising campaign (Algemeiner)
Georgia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Germany
February 3: German football club chairman makes antisemitic comments after his son and others on his club are cited by referee for using antisemitic rhetoric against rival Jewish club (Algemeiner)

Greece
January 12: Greek site memorializing the victims of the Holocaust is vandalized in Thessaloniki (Mosaic Magazine)
Honduras
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Hungary
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Iceland
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
India
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Indonesia
February 1: Israeli Olympic shooter told he cannot compete in Indonesia international competition which is mandatory to compete in 2024 Olympics, with any symbol that represents Israel (Algemeiner)

Iran
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Ireland
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Israel
February 1: Israeli Olympic shooter told he cannot compete in Indonesia international competition which is mandatory to compete in 2024 Olympics, with any symbol that represents Israel (Algemeiner)
January 29: Israel’s Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism, Noa Tishby, criticizes traditional media for not adequately reacting to terrorist attack on Israeli synagogue (Sky News)
January 26: Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, in front of EU parliament says criticism of Israel is OK but questioning Israel’s right to exist is not (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Italy
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Japan
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Jordan
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Kosovo
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Kuwait
September 12: Kuwait’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry orders a shop close for selling Star of David necklaces (WIN).

Latvia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Lebanon
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Lithuania
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Luxembourg
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Malaysia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Mauritania
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Mexico
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Moldova
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Montenegro
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Morocco
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Netherlands
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

New Zealand
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

North Macedonia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Norway
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Pakistan
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Palestinian Territories
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Paraguay
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Poland
February 1: Far right Polish group pushes antisemitic charges, including blood libel, on You Tube (Algemeiner)
Portugal
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Qatar
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Romania
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Russia
January 18: Russian Foreign Minister claims US and its allies are pursuing a genocidal “final solution to the “Russian question” (World Israel News)
Saudi Arabia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Scotland
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Serbia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Singapore
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Slovakia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Slovenia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

South Africa
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
South Korea
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Spain
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Sweden
January 31: Egyptian man has Swedish authorities permission for a demonstration outside Israel’s embassy which would include burning a Torah scroll (Times of Israel)

Switzerland
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Syria
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Taiwan
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Tunisia
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Turkey
February 6: Turkey arrests 15 Islamic State suspects for allegedly plotting to blow up Istanbul synagogues (Times of Israel)

Ukraine
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
United Arab Emirates
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
United Kingdom
February 7: Wife of Roger Waters band mate, Dave Gilmour, accuses Waters of being antisemitic and a “Putin apologist” (Daily Mail)
February 2: Twelve-year-old Jewish boy wearing a yarmulke assaulted on London bus (Cleveland Jewish News)
February 1: British Labour MP calls Israel’s government fascist and says the country is an “apartheid state” and then apologizes (World Israel News)
January 31: Retired British vicar accused of antisemitism, including claiming that Jews and Israel and Israel were behind 9/11 was banned from the Anglican ministry for 12 years (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
January 26: Former Tory MP compares COVID vaccine program to the Holocaust and threatens to sue a former health secretary who said the statement was a “disgusting antisemitic, anti-vax conspiracy” (Sky News)
January 18: Jewish comedian violently threatened and faced shouting of “Yido”in London Bar where Arsenal fans were watching a match with Totenham Hotspurs (World Israel News)
January 14: Report on the National Union of Students reveals that antisemitism is festering in progressive circles (Spiked Online)
January 12: Report which branded the National Union of Students as a “hostile environment for Jews” included incidents where Jewish students have had swastikas drawn on them and where “Hitler was right” stickers around campuses (I News)
January 12: Former MP and Corbyn supporter talks about an “aggressive” and “fanatical” Zionist lobby and says UK foreign “policy is now effectively dictated by the state of Israel.” (Mosaic Magazine)
January 11: Conservative Party expels lawmaker for comparing COVID-19 vaccines to the Holocaust (Reuters)

United States
February 7: In defending Ilhan Omar prominent podcaster, Joe Rogan, “[t]he idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous” (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
February 6: Former magistrate awarded $1.1 million after she had sued a Butler County, Ohio judge for firing her because she was Jewish and requesting time off for Jewish holidays (WCPO)
February 5: Chabad “Mitzvah Tank” in NYC vandalized a second time with “Palestine” graffiti (Algemeiner)
February 5: Antisemitic literature left on driveways across the metro Atlanta area (11 Alive)
February 5: Montgomery County, Maryland schools report new antisemitic incidents (The Washington Post)
February 3: Two right-wing provocateurs traveling across south to university campuses to write pro-Kanye chalk messages— including #Ye Is Right” (The Fire)
February 3: FBI investigating incident where man enters a Jewish Center and fires blanks in the middle of a study session (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
February 1: Antisemitic messages on chalkboard in a Israeli politics class at UC Santa Barbara campus and antisemitic flyers spread in Santa Barbara neighborhoods (Santa Barbara Independent)
February 2: Leader of “Goyim Defense League” which is behind antisemitic flyer campaign apprehend by Florida police for littering lawns with antisemitic material (Algemeiner)
January 31: Princeton English Department sponsoring lecture by speaker who has accused Israelis of eating Palestinian organs (Algemeiner)
January 31: Antisemitic flyers passed out in Charlottesville, Virginia (CAIR)
January 31: Las Vegas man alleged to have threatened to “shoot up” a local synagogue (Fox 5)
January 31: Police in Beaumont, Texas arrested man in car with an assault rifle who appeared to be casing a synagogue and a Catholic cathedral (KJAS)
January 31: Local NBC affiliate in Washington, DC investigates rise in level of antisemitic incidents in Montgomery County, Maryland since 2016 (NBC Washington)
January 30: Saudi national charged with stealing a school bus in Livingston, New Jersey left journals threatening “Jihad” against Jews and writing “Jews control everything” (NJ 1015)
January 29: North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles finds 10,000 banned phrases for license plates including antisemitic ones (WNCT)
January 29: Antisemitic flyers tossed into Palm Beach driveways (YouTube)
January 29: Antisemitic flyers distributed in the town of Irondequoit, New York (Local SYR)
January 29: A man wearing a ski mask threw a Molotov cocktail at a Bloomfield, New Jersey synagogue (The New York Times)
January 29: Neo-Nazi home schooling network which teaches kids to shun Jews and revere Hitler has 2,400 members (Vice)
January 27: Antisemitic banner displayed at Florida State University (Yahoo)
January 27: Rep. George Santos, who lied about his Jewish descendants, appears to have praised Hitler and joke about killing Jews in an old Facebook post (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
January 26: Delta Airlines is investigating allegations of antisemitism against one of their flight attendants (ABC7 NY)
January 26: Jewish man assaulted in a supermarket in Montgomery County, Maryland alleges some of men who assaulted him yelled “Do It For Kanye” (NBC Washington)
January 25: European Jewish student groups sues Twitter over failing to uphold its pledge to remove hate speech (including antisemitism) from its platform (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
January 25: Antisemite Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter and is tweeting antisemitic hate messages including praise for Hitler (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
January 24: Eleven members of Congress call upon UN Secretary General to remove a Palestinian rights official, Francesca Albanese, and criticizes another UN official for past antisemitic remarks (Times of Israel)
January 24: Police arrest a man in Atlantis, Florida for littering lawns with antisemitic flyers (WPBF News)
January 23: Study by Texas Holocaust, Genocide and Antisemitism Advisory Commission finds steady increase in antisemitism in the state (Texas Public Radio)
January 18: US Merchant Marine Academy covers up huge Jesus painting in a classroom where mandatory classes held after 18 individuals ant the Military Religious Freedom Foundation ask request the painting be removed (Times of Israel)
January 15: George Washington University professor accused by student of antisemitism (WTop)
January 15: Police investigating antisemitic flyers distributed in neighborhoods of Boca Raton, Florida (WPTV)
January 13: Antisemitic graffiti at Dr. Philips High School in Orlando (Bay News 9)
January 12: ADL survey reveals significant increase in measures of antisemitism over 2019 (ADL)
January 12: Suspect in assault on Jewish man near a pro-Israel rally in midtown Manhattan is offered a plea deal of six-months in jail (NY Post)
January 12: Students for Justice in Palestine at University of Chicago pushing students to boycott course taught by a retired Israeli general (World Israel News)
January 12: Religious Leaders forum of Metropolitan Detroit condemn antisemitism in the wake of local and national incidents of antisemitism (Detroit Catholic)
January 11: Electronic billboard on private property in Butler County, Pennsylvania features a swastika (CBS News)
January 10: NYPD data shows antisemitic incidents in NYC more than doubled in two years (Times of Israel)
January 10: Antisemitic leaflets distributed in Orange County, Florida (Wesh)
January 10: Antisemitic graffiti found at Ridgewood, New Jersey high school (Tap Into)
January 9: Mural on the side Waynesboro, Virginia YMCA building and a billboard are vandalized with swastikas (WHSV)
January 9: Antisemitic banner on I-20 in Shreveport, Louisiana shortly after antisemitic flyers appear in nearby neighborhoods (MSN)
Uruguay
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Vatican City
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
Venezuela
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.

Yemen
No incidents yet reported for 2023. View last year’s list here.
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