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A bipartisan group of U.S. Congressmen signed a letter urging the UN to fire the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese over her history of antisemitic statements.
Following a trip leading a delegation of US Senators to Abraham Accords member states, U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) discussed opportunities for the Senate to expand Middle East cooperation. Meanwhile, the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism was adopted by the Republic of Croatia; the cities of Kansas City, Missouri, and Florence, Italy; Westchester County, New York; and the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Twenty-four-year-old U.S. Holocaust denier and white nationalism influencer Nick Fuentes was briefly reinstated to Twitter, before being suspended again after unleashing a new slew of antisemitic posts promoting Kanye West’s antisemitic presidential campaign and conspiracies about a “Zionist Occupied Government.”
In Houston, Texas, a woman trespassed into a synagogue, where she damaged a Torah scroll and harassed preschool children, and a synagogue in St. Louis, Missouri was graffitied in an incident being investigated as a potential hate crime. In New York City, a vandal broke a fence outside Congregation Toras Emes on Staten Island, and another synagogue in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood received a package containing powder and an antisemitic letter.
In Berkeley, California, billboards featuring messages against antisemitism were defaced with the spray-painted words, “Free Palestine,” where last semester a dozen student groups at UC Berkeley School of Law agreed to boycott speakers who support Israel or Zionism.
In London, England, a Jewish mother and her young child were verbally harangued on a public bus by a fellow passenger who called them “vermin,” and an Israeli orchestra director resigned from the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden, Germany, due to “systematic antisemitic belittling” he said he faced.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry expressed concern over antisemitic titles being sold at a state-run book fair in Cairo, Egypt.
According to a new report, there was a 22% rise in university-related antisemitic incidents in the UK over the past two years, and a survey of Dutch citizens found a majority did not know that the Holocaust had affected their country.
This week's global antisemitism report highlights 38 new media reports of antisemitic incidents. The total includes 22 (57.9%) from the far-right, 5 (13.2%) from the far-left, 3 (7.9%) with Islamist motivations, and 8 (21.1%) unidentifiable in nature.
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