Jan. 11, 2024
At the International Court of Justice, South African lawyers accused Israel of perpetrating a genocide in its fight against Hamas. In Chile, the mayor of Recoleta called Judaism a “supremacist” religion and compared it to Nazism. In Los Angeles, California, protestors burned an Israeli flag, assaulted a pro-Israel counter-demonstrator, and vandalized a War Veteran Cemetery.
In Florida, a proposed bill would prohibit state ties with the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose executive director recently called Hamas Oct. 7th attack on Israel a source of "inspiration." In its first official act of 2024, the Kansas State Legislature passed a resolution expressing support for Israel and denouncing rising antisemitism.
U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK) called for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to hold a full hearing on rising antisemitism at American universities and the needed actions to keep Jewish students safe from antisemitic harassment and discrimination.