The official X account of the beloved Sesame Street character Elmo was hacked and weaponized this past weekend to disseminate chilling antisemitic rhetoric and threats. Coming just days after the xAI chatbot Grok published a series of posts parroting classical antisemitic tropes, the Elmo incident further underscored the rapid proliferation of online antisemitism and the growing dangers it poses.
Other antisemitic incidents recorded by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM this week included:
- Greece: A group of masked vandals stormed a kosher restaurant in Athens, yelling antisemitic threats and smearing hate-filled graffiti across the premises.
- Poland: A Nazi swastika and the word "Palestine" were spray-painted on a Holocaust memorial in the southeastern town of Dukla.
The number of recorded incidents in South America tripled this week, a rise largely attributable to events tied to the "Hague Group" meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where Israel was accused of "genocide."
Congress Confronts Antisemitism in Higher Education
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce held its latest hearing on campus antisemitism on Tuesday. The heads of Georgetown University, City University of New York (CUNY), and University of California, Berkeley, faced questions about their efforts to protect Jewish students and combat radicalism at their schools.
CAM Remembers AMIA Bombing Victims
Friday marks the 31-year anniversary of the Iran-orchestrated bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina - the deadliest attack against Jews outside of Israel since the Holocaust.
More than three decades later, the perpetrators remain at large and the Tehran regime continues to sow antisemitic violence worldwide, making this anniversary a time of both remembrance and vigilance.
Solidarity With the Druze People
Amid the horrific images coming out of southern Syria, CAM stands in solidarity with the Druze people. CAM CEO Sacha Roytman called the atrocities being perpetrated against the Druze by the new Syrian regime a "chilling echo of the darkest moments in history." 
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