As Christmas celebrations coincided with the start of Hanukkah this week, anti-Israel extremists across the globe hijacked the holiday season to promote their hateful agenda. Protesters disrupted holiday shopping at malls in Norway and the United States, as well as a Canadian Christmas market.
Meanwhile, in the reappearance of an annual antisemitic phenomenon, the story of Jesus was intentionally distorted to deny any ties between Jews and the Land of Israel by promoting the false notion that he, Mary, and Joseph were "Palestinians."
Harrowing acts of violence and vandalism against Jewish institutions continued to rock Canada this week as a Toronto synagogue was vandalized for the eighth time this year, with the perpetrators spray-painting over "Bring them home now" signs. Also in Toronto, a different synagogue was firebombed for the second time in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre in Israel, while a Jewish girls' school in Montreal was shot at for the third time since May.
The social media platform TikTok flagged this week a video by American social media influencer Montana Tucker calling for the release of the Israeli hostages still held in Hamas captivity as "sensitive content." CAM denounced TikTok’s shadow-banning of the video as yet another instance of the platform suppressing pro-Israel activists, silencing the truth while allowing hate to fester.
Over 90% of the 128 incidents monitored this week were motivated by far-left or Islamist ideologies, showing the persistence of the "Red-Green Alliance" as the main driver of antisemitic incidents in a post-October 7th world.
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