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
Germany, March 6: Iran using criminal gangs to target Jews in Germany (see also Iran)
Iran, March 6: Iran using criminal gangs to target Jews in Germany (see also Germany)
United States, March 6: Students call for US college president’s ouster after it was discovered she was to give a talk at a club with an antisemitic history
Canada, March 4: NDP candidate’s anti-Israel activism raises concerns for Jewish constituency
United States, March 4: White supremacists claim responsibility for antisemitic carvings on a sacred Native American site near Billings, Montana
United States, March 3: Michigan Attorney General was among those threatened by a man who targeted Jewish members of the Michigan government with death
United States, March 3: Pro-Palestinian activist who committed a series of attacks on Jews in NYC in 2021 and 2022 discussed bringing firebombs to a pro-Israel rally
United States, March 3: US creates new antisemitism task force and collaborates with foreign antisemitism envoys
United States, March 2: Rolling Stone investigation finds that racist and antisemitic music is on Apple Music, Amazon musiz and other sites
United States, March 2: Antisemitic, racist and anti-Hispanic graffiti spray-painted on two high school campuses in Fort Worth, Texas
United States, March 2: Northwood high school in Silver Spring, Maryland closes outdoor facilities after four antisemitic incidents
United States, March 2: Ticketmaster criticized by Jewish leaders for keeping Farrakhan on their platform
United States, March 2: State Attorney files charges in Atlantis, Florida against a Maryland man who was stopped for littering with antisemitic literature and then refused to provide identification
Canada, March 1: Swastika painted on a monument in Chatham, Ontario
United States, March 1: Swastika graffiti left on a pizza place in West Hollywood
United States, March 1: Antisemitic flyers dropped in the Parkville section of Baltimore, Maryland
Poland, February 28: Academic paper alleges conspiracy of a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland to lay blame for the Holocaust on Jews and absolve Poland of almost any responsibility for antisemitism
Portugal, February 28: Jewish community in Porto in norther Portugal decries government’s refusal to posthumously reinstate in army community’s founder who was persecuted for promoting Judaism
United States, February 28: Over 100 US academics call on the University of Chicago to prevent Students for Justice in Palestine in-person, disruptive protest of a course taught by a retired IDF general
Bulgaria, February 27: Government bans neo-Nazis from around Europe from marching in honor of Bulgarian Nazi collaborator
Israel, February 27: Israeli Arab teen arrested after uploading a video to Tik Tok in which he called for “slaughtering” Jews
Peru, February 27: Jewish journalist target of antisemitic harassment
United States, February 27: Louis Farrakhan Saviours Day speech included antisemitic conspiracy theories and demonization of Jews and Judaism
United States, February 26: Red Sox executive, Chaim Bloom, says he has been a target of an antisemitic slur over the baseball team’s recent poor performance
United States, February 25: Swastika spray-painted on side of building in West Boca, Florida
United States, February 25: Across the U.S. police patrols ramped up to protect Jewish communities ahead of “National Day of Hate”
Australia, February 24: “Writers Week,” purported to be the largest literary gathering in the country includes anti-Zionist and antisemitic speakers— including one who has accused Israelis of eating Palestinian organs
United Kingdom, February 24: Oxford University debating society’s president faces no-confidence motion after inviting Israeli Ambassador to a panel where pro-Palestinian students shouted anti-Israel slogans
United States, February 24: Antisemitic graffiti and harrassment at a North Carolina middle school and list of recent antisemitic incidents in the school district
United States, February 24: Goyim Defense League harass Jews near the entrance of Chabad in Orlando, Florida
United States, February 24: Antisemitic graffiti drawn on a pillar in a park pavilion near Columbus, Ohio
United Kingdom, February 23: Former Community Security Trust (CST) executive fights off and subdues an antisemitic thug who shouted praise for Hitler and punched the executive in the face on an Amsterdam-bound train
United States, February 23: Neo-Nazi groups promote “National Day of Hate” for February 25th
United States, February 23: Alleged Colorado Springs LGBTQ club shooter ran neo-Nazi website according to hearing witness
United States, February 23: ADL report contends that a disproportionate number of mass killings in the US have been linked to right-wing extremism over the last decade
United Kingdom, February 22: Swastika graffiti has been showing up in Wrexham, Wales since November of 2022
United States, February 22: A red swastika and a cross painted on a Portsmouth, New Hampshire synagogue
United States, February 22: Man ordered to stay away from Dickinson College after placing antisemitic stickers on the Ashbell Center for Jewish Life on campus
United States, February 21: Tenth grade teacher in Hayward, California handed out antisemitic conspiracy material to his students and on numerous occasions made the “Heil Hitler” salute
United States, February 21: Jews in Linden, New Jersey targeted with threatening, antisemitic mail
United States, February 21: Neo-Nazis protest outside a preview performance of Parade which focuses on Leo Frank— protestors rant about Frank being a pedophile
United States, February 21: Antisemitic literature dropped in Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach, Florida a day after white supremacists stood on a pedestrian bridge holding antisemitic signs
United States, February 21: George Santos in explaining his “Jew-ish” falsehoods says his critics are “pounding down for a pound of flesh”
United Kingdom, February 20: British Security minister, Tom Tugendhat, confirmed that the Iranian government spied on British Jews and plotted killings of Jews
United States, February 20: Antisemitic flyers in Norfolk, Virginia
United States, February 20: Antisemitic flyers littered across Nashville on driveways and in mailboxes
United States, February 20: Antisemitic flyer found at University of Vermont for the second time in a month
United States, February 20: Historic Atlanta church vandalized with racist and swastika graffiti
United States, February 19: At a California, girl’s, high school basketball game in the gym of a Jewish school, parts of the crowd rooting for the opponents were alleged to have continually shouted “Kanye West,” pulled up Palestinian flags and swastikas on their cell phones and stuck them in the face of the Jewish athletes
Founded in 2018, Moment’s Antisemitism Monitor is a carefully fact-checked website of antisemitic incidents around the world. It is curated by one of the world’s top antisemitism experts—Ira N. Forman, the former U.S. Special Envoy of the Office to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, who now teaches at Georgetown University and is a senior fellow at the Washington, DC-based Moment Institute. At a time of rising antisemitism and the proliferation of disinformation, the Antisemitism Monitor is a critical resource used by government officials, Human Rights NGOs, the public, academics, students and the media, including The Wall Street Journal and the Times of Israel. “Understanding the different ways antisemitism manifests itself is absolutely essential if you’re going to learn to counter it,” says Forman.
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Ira N. Forman is a senior fellow at the Moment Institute and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. He is the former U.S. Special Envoy of the Office to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. He also serves as the senior advisor for combating antisemitism at Human Rights First.
Antisemitism Monitor
BY IRA N. FORMAN | 2023 | in Jewish World
Ira N. Forman is a senior fellow at the Moment Institute and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. He is the former U.S. Special Envoy of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. He also serves as the senior advisor for combating anti-Semitism at Human Rights First.
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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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