Английская Википедия:Antisemitism during the Israel–Hamas war

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Pp Шаблон:Campaignbox 2023 Israel–Hamas war Following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war, there has been a surge of antisemitism around the world. Israeli Immigration Minister Ofir Sofer has stated that Israel is bracing to expect a large wave of Jews migrating to Israel due to the rising antisemitism around the world.

Africa

Egypt

On 8 October 2023, an Egyptian police officer shot and killed two Israeli tourists and an Egyptian tour guide in Alexandria, Egypt.

South Africa

See also: Antisemitism in South Africa

On 19 October 2023, the walls of the promenade in Sea Point in Cape Town were daubed with antisemitic graffiti. The City of Cape Town swiftly removed the graffiti.

A Jewish man walking to synagogue in the Johannesburg suburb of Sydenham was accosted by a male jogger screaming antisemitic insults at him. The jogger then assaulted the man, by knocking him over, kicking and punching him while he lay on the ground. A charge of assault has been laid at Sandringham Police Station.

On January 12, 2024, Jewish cricket player David Teeger was stripped of the captaincy of the under-19 cricket team by Cricket South Africa. The removal of Teeger's captaincy was claimed by Cricket South Africa to have been a measure to reduce protests at the 2024 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, hosted in South Africa. The measure led to claims of antisemitism by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies.

Tunisia

On 18 October 2023, the El Hamma synagogue of El Hamma, Tunisia, which is a Jewish pilgrimage site and contains the tomb of 16th-century Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Ma'aravi, was severely damaged during anti-Israel riots, with hundreds of people filmed setting fire to the building.

Asia

Armenia

On 15 November, unknown assailants set fire to the Mordechai Navi Synagogue in Yerevan and disseminated the arson attack on social media.

China

Шаблон:See also After the war began, the Associated Press noted a rise in antisemitism on Chinese social media sites, substantive enough that the Israeli embassy in Beijing had to filter comments on its social media account. An Israeli employee of the Israeli embassy in Beijing, China, was stabbed and injured on 13 October.

Antisemitic reactions to the Israel–Hamas war have been widespread on Chinese social media. Antisemitic comments were not removed from Chinese social media sites indicating state support or the authorities' indifference toward the issue.

Europe

Austria

A 16-year-old living in Steyr, Upper Austria was arrested on 7 December after allegedly planning to attack a synagogue in Vienna. The teenager announced on online chats that he intended to attack an unspecified synagogue. Authorities seized several electronic data carriers from his house, which stored images and videos with instructions for producing explosives, weapons, and ammunition.

Belgium

On 22 November, at least 85 gravestones were damaged and many Stars of David were stolen from a cemetery in Charleroi. Only the cemetery’s Jewish section was vandalized. On 19 December, swastikas and Stars of David were graffitied on gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Kraainem.

Cyprus

Israel confirmed the Mossad helped local authorities foil a terror plot against Israeli and Jewish people in Cyprus on 10 December. Netanyahu’s office accused the Iranian government of being behind the plot, and said on behalf of the Mossad that Israel was "troubled" by Iranian use of Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus for both terrorism and as an "operational and transit area".

Denmark

Danish police arrested at least four suspected Hamas operatives who were planning attacks on Jewish or Israeli targets in Denmark.

France

Шаблон:See also In response to a rise in antisemitic incidents in France, the French government banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the country. In a televised address on 12 October 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron warned, "Let's remember that antisemitism has always been the precursor to other forms of hate: one day against the Jews, the next against the Christians, then the Muslims, and then all those who are still the target of hate due to their culture, origin or gender."

On 31 October 2023, Stars of David were painted in multiple spots across several building fronts in a southern district of Paris. Similar tags appeared over the weekend in suburbs of the city, including Vanves, Fontenay-aux-Roses and Aubervilliers.

On 1 November, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez opened a probe into antisemitic chants filmed on the Paris metro. In the video, youth are heard chanting, "Fuck the Jews and fuck your mother, long live Palestine. We are Nazis and proud of it."

On 4 November, a Jewish woman was stabbed in Lyon and a swastika was graffitied on her home.

A report released in late January 2024, approximately 3.5 months post the October 7 attack, documented a significant uptick in antisemitic acts within France. The Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive (SPCJ) reported a 1000% surge in antisemitic incidents in 2023 compared to the previous year, totaling 1,676 recorded acts. The majority of these incidents targeted individuals, involving threatening words and gestures. Notably, the increase in antisemitic acts was not solely linked to the Israeli response to the October 7 attack; instead, it occurred immediately following the broadcast of the October 7 massacres.

The SPCJ identified "Palestine" as a significant factor, mentioned in almost one-third of antisemitic acts since October 7. Additionally, French Jews reported feeling increasingly unsafe, with a 1,500% increase in antisemitic acts in private spheres and a surge of 1,200% in antisemitic acts within schools or educational settings, often related to Nazism.

Between 7 October and 17 December over 1,200 French Jews opened Aliyah files to migrate to Israel an increase of 430% compared to last year. Many were driven by a combination of solidarity with Israel as well as rising antisemitism in France.

Germany

Шаблон:See also In Berlin, the houses of several Jews were marked with a Star of David, echoing the marking of Jewish homes and businesses during Nazism.

On 18 October, two molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in the Mitte neighborhood of central Berlin. One person was arrested. Following the firebombing, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared, "Attacks on Jewish institutions and acts of violence on our streets are despicable and cannot be tolerated. Antisemitism has no place in Germany."

On 22 October, Chancellor Scholz said, "I am deeply outraged by the way in which antisemitic hatred and inhuman agitation have been breaking out since that fateful October 7, on the internet, in social media around the world, and shamefully also here in Germany. Here in Germany, of all places. That is why our 'never again' must be unbreakable."

Latvia

Following the Israel–Hamas war, several Riga Stradiņš University students from Israel were reported to have received hate texts from other foreign students, with one person contacting the State Security Service in connection with anti-Semitic expressions and threats. Ministry of Education and Science said that it will assess the situation at the university regarding possible conflicts between foreign students in connection with the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, while the State Security Service confirmed that it is investigating the situation.

Latvian Foreign Minister Krišjānis Kariņš said, "Latvia must have zero tolerance against any manifestations of incitement to ethnic hatred, and possible conflicts between foreign students of Riga Stradins University (RSU) should be taken very seriously", stressing that, "If it really turns out RSU students are inciting ethnic hatred, it could result not only in expulsion from the university, but also from the country".

Netherlands

Following the 7 October attacks, the local Jewish community voiced its concern that unrest in the Middle East could spread to the Netherlands, citing historical trends. The National Coordinator for Combating Anti-Semitism of the Dutch government and the interest group Шаблон:Ill (CIDI) reported a considerable increase in antisemitic expression since the escalation of hostilities. Recorded incidents, collected in accordance with the IHRA definition of antisemitism, include acts of vandalism, verbal and physical abuse, intimidation, and bullying.

On 25 October 2023, the CIDI filed a complaint against the owner of the popular Instagram account Cestmocro and a number of its followers for inciting hatred and violence against Jews. It also called on the cabinet of ministers to take an explicit position "against this form of incitement against the Jewish community." Instagram removed the account Cestmocrotv of the same owner on 8 November.

On 9 November 2023, an editorial cartoon by Шаблон:Ill in de Volkskrant attracted controversy for portraying the CIDI as an appendage on the "long arm of Israel" and for allegedly trivializing Jewish concerns.

In December 2023, German prosecutors announced the arrests of four suspected Hamas members, one of whom was a Dutch national who had been apprehended in Rotterdam. The group had allegedly planned to attack Jewish sites.

Accusations of antisemitism were raised after a series of lectures on the Holocaust at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) were postponed indefinitely in January 2024, after pro-Palestinian activists had criticized the involvement of the CIDI in the development of the curriculum. In a statement, the university announced that it needed "more time to place the events of 7 October and beyond in a broader perspective, with room for diverse opinions and beliefs", later adding that "the safety of speakers, students, teachers and visitors cannot be guaranteed". The CIDI and fellow interest group Шаблон:Ill responded negatively, questioning the relation between Holocaust education and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and claiming that the HU had shown that "threats and intimidation work". Others who expressed disapproval include Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, demissionary Minister of Justice and Security and VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz, demissionary Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf, NSC leader Pieter Omtzigt, and BBB leader Caroline van der Plas.

Poland

At a pro-Palestinian protest in Warsaw on 21 October, a Norwegian medical student was pictured holding an antisemitic poster that showed the flag of Israel in a trash can alongside the text "keep the world clean."

On 12 December, far-right Polish lawmaker Grzegorz Braun used a fire extinguisher on a lit menorah and removed it from the wall during a Hanukkah celebration involving Polish-Jewish leaders and Israel's ambassador in the country's parliament. Braun then said, "There can be no place for the acts of this racist, tribal, wild Talmudic cult on the premises of the Sejm." He was expelled from parliament as a result, and his actions were condemned by several Polish politicians and his own party.

Russia

Шаблон:Further Шаблон:See also On 29 October 2023 a mob of antisemitic protesters stormed the airport in Dagestan in search of Israeli passengers from Tel Aviv.

Spain

On 18 October 2023, the Or Zaruah synagogue in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, was attacked by a mob chanting "murderous Israel" while waving Palestinian flags.

Sweden

On 4 November, pro-Palestinian demonstrators burned an Israeli flag and chanted "bomb Israel" outside the Malmö Synagogue. The European Jewish Congress condemned the incident: "Intimidating the Jewish community and blaming them for the events in the Middle East is blatant antisemitism."

Turkey

Turkish Jewish newspaper Şalom reported rising cases of antisemitism and reported hate speech on Twitter

United Kingdom

On 13 October 2023, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said, "There's been a quite frankly disgusting rise in antisemitic incidents." On 20 October 2023, The Guardian reported that according to the Metropolitan police, there has been a 1,350% increase in hate crimes against Jewish people since the war started.

North America

Canada

On 17 October 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, "Since this conflict broke out, there has been a very scary rise of antisemitism here at home." On 8 November, Trudeau added, "We're seeing right now a rise in antisemitism that is terrifying: Molotov cocktails thrown at synagogues, horrific threats of violence targeting Jewish businesses, targeting Jewish daycares with hate, this needs to stop."

On 7 November, there was an attempted arson attack against Congregation Beth Tikvah synagogue and a Jewish Community Center in Montreal.

Eta Yudin, vice president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) said that her organization was aware of over a dozen alleged hate crimes and over 25 "hateful incidents" in the month since the Hamas attack.

Multiple cases of anti-semitism was reported in the Concordia University with Jewish students facing verbal and physical threats from both other students and faculty members. On 8 November footage of Professor Yanise Arab shouting at Jewish Concordia students to “go back to Poland, sharmuta (whore in Arabic)" went viral alongside another video of a student using the slur kike.

On 9 November in Montreal, two Jewish children's schools, Talmud Torah Elementary and Yeshiva Gedola, were targeted with gunfire overnight, leaving bullet holes. On 12 November, Yeshiva Gedola was struck with gunfire for a second time. In a press conference that day, Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said, "The Jewish community in Montreal is currently under attack."

Shortly after midnight on 27 November, a Jewish community center belonging to the Jewish Community Council of Montreal was attacked with a Molotov cocktail.

Jewish students and teachers of the Peel District School Board complained to the National Post about antisemitism and violent threats. A teacher posted "Jews are the problem" in a private Facebook group while students chanted "we call for Jewish genocide," during a protest.

United States

On October 9, a sukkah at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti. On October 10, a man threw rocks through the glass doors of a synagogue and cafe in Fresno, California, the second with a note reading “All Jewish businesses will be targeted”. On October 11, at Columbia University, a woman assaulted an Israeli man with a stick after he confronted her for ripping down posters with pictures of and information about kidnapped Israelis. She has been charged with a hate crime. On October 11, a man was arrested for sending threatening emails to a synagogue in Charlotte, North Carolina. On October 14, a man in New York's Grand Central Terminal punched a woman in the face and told her it was because she was Jewish.

On October 15, in Berkeley, California, a billboard calling out antisemitism was defaced with antisemitic and anti-Israel graffiti, praising the Hamas attacks. Several San Francisco buildings were vandalized with similar messages, sparking condemnation by Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Around seven members of White Lives Matter California held a demonstration on a bridge in Walnut Creek, holding up signs reading "No More Wars for I$rael" and promoting the neo-Nazi propaganda film Europa: The Last Battle. Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford spoke at an October 15 rally, saying he had found Hamas's attack "exhilarating" before learning that it had targeted civilians. Cornell's leadership condemned his remarks, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Claudia Tenney called for him to be fired. Rickford apologized for the remarks in The Cornell Daily Sun. On October 21, it was announced that he would take a leave of absence for the remainder of the semester.

On October 19, the Illinois Comptroller's office fired one of its lawyers, Sarah Chowdhury, over antisemitic remarks she made on the Instagram page of another lawyer, who is Jewish. Chowdhury was also fired from her position as president of the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago. On October 20, a building next to a Jewish fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti reading "The Jews R Nazis".

A man broke into a Jewish family's home in Los Angeles on October 25, yelling "Free Palestine" and "Kill Jews". On October 25, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported antisemitic incidents in the U.S. had increased 388% since the war began, including assault, harassment, and vandalism. On October 29, threats against the Jewish community at Cornell University were posted online, threatening to shoot, rape, and murder Jewish students and encouraging violence against them. The FBI is investigating the incident as a hate crime. On October 31, the New York State Police announced they had a person of interest in custody. On November 3, CNN reported the arrest of 20-year-old Jordanian national Sohaib Abuayyash for plotting a terrorist attack against the Jewish community in Houston, Texas. At the University of Massachusetts, a Jewish student attending a peaceful event on November 3 calling for the release of hostages was attacked by another student, who also spat on an Israeli flag.

Paul Kessler, an elderly Jewish man, was fatally injured after being involved in an altercation with a pro-Palestine protester while both were attending dueling demonstrations on November 5 in Westlake Village, Los Angeles County, California. Investigation into his death is still ongoing. On November 6, a woman was arrested after ramming her car into a Black Hebrew Israelite school in Indianapolis, Indiana, mistakenly believing it to be an "Israel school." On December 7, a man fired two rounds from a shotgun into the air outside a synagogue in Albany and made threatening statements, but no injuries were reported. The shooter was confronted by a nearby driver and fled after claiming he was being wronged; he is also alleged to have said "Free Palestine" at some point during the attack. Albany police arrested the shooter about a block away. The shooter was identified as Mufid Fawaz Alkhader, a 28-year-old resident of Schenectady who was born in Iraq.

On November 11, 2023, The Intercept reported the Anti-Defamation League was including Jewish anti-war and peace rallies in its analysis of antisemitic attacks. On December 30, Bernie Steinberg, the former director of Harvard Hillel, told The Harvard Crimson that pro-Israeli activists should stop "weaponizing" charges of antisemitism against pro-Palestinian activism, writing, "It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands."

On January 2024 a game between the girls' varsity teams from The Leffell School and Roosevelt High School Early College Studies in Yonkers was stopped when Roosevelt students began hurling antisemitic slurs at Leffell students. The New York City Public Schools Alliance claimed that one of the students yelled "I support Hamas, you fucking Jew" and during the third quarter became aggressive and violent during the play resulting in injuries of Leffell's players.

Oceania

Australia

Шаблон:See alsoOn October 9, participants in a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney organized by Palestine Action Group, chanted "Gas the Jews" in front of the Sydney Opera House. On October 10, several individuals in Melbourne made death threats against Jews, one group harassing a rabbi and his son, and another asking where to find Jews, saying they were "hunting for Jews". On October 11, a man in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales threatened to kill four Jewish teenagers in a car with an Israeli flag draped on it. He was later arrested and charged.

On October 12, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) received a death threat on Instagram, saying “We are coming for you soon, from western Sydney” alongside an image of a man about to be beheaded by ISIS. On October 13, three men gave a Nazi salute outside the Sydney Jewish Museum. In Melbourne, several instances of antisemitic graffiti were reported. On October 14, 20-30 members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network marched in front of and into the Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne, displaying a banner reading "Expose Jewish Power" and distributing neo-Nazi literature.

Between October and December 2023, Australia experienced a surge in both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia following the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hamas on 7 October. Between 7 October and 8 November, the ECAJ recorded 221 antisemitic incidents, with 42 being recorded in one week alone. Documented hate crime incidents have included spitting at women, gun threats, threats to synagogues and Jewish schools, graffiti, property damage, hate mail, and verbal abuse. The Victorian Police also recorded 72 reports of antisemitic incidents between 7 October and 9 November, resulting in 37 investigations and 10 arrests. ECAJ's research director Julie Nathan believed that many incidents of antisemitism went unreported. By 9 December 2023, ECAJ estimated there had been a 591% increase in reported antisemitic incidents in Australia in 2023. Notable incidents have included a Sydney Jewish man being verbally abused for wearing a kippah and Jewish parents advising their children to hide Jewish clothing in public.

New Zealand

Шаблон:Main On November 7, pro-Palestinian graffiti was sprayed on the fence of the Beth Shalom centre in Auckland's Epsom suburb. An unsuccessful attempt was also made to set the property on fire. Google Maps had mistakenly listed the property as the local Israeli consulate. The incident was condemned by ACT Party Member of Parliament David Seymour, who reported the matter to Police.

In mid November 2023, New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and The Disinformation Project reported a surge in both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in New Zealand following the Israel-Hamas war. Antisemitic content surfaced on both social media and gaming platforms. According to Disinformation Project researcher Kate Hannah, New Zealand Jews were increasingly conflated with all Israelis and the Israeli Government. Hannah said that these attitudes were anti-semitic, xenophobic and contributed to division in New Zealand society. Similarly, New Zealand Jewish Council spokesperson Juliet Moses reported a surge in anti-semitic threats of violence, death threats and extreme abuse both online and offline since 7 October.

In mid December 2023, a survey conducted by the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand reported that New Zealand Jewish children were encountering an increase in antisemitic abuse, intimidation, and bullying. In two cases, one child was physically assaulted and another had a swastika and a Star of David drawn side-by-side on their school shirt. While the Holocaust Centre usually dealt with two formal anti-Semitic complaints each year, the number of complaints had increased by five times in the past two months since 7 October 2023. According to the Holocaust Centre, 40% of the incidents reported in the survey involved dehumanising and demonising allegations about Jews. These included children being greeted by their peers with Nazi salutes, being called "dirty Jews," being told "Jews control the world," and jokes about Jews being gassed, and the blood libel claim that Jews "chopped off baby's heads." However, only 40% of parents reported these incidents to their schools with the majority preferring to resolve the matter with the parent of the bullying child.

South America

Argentina

Шаблон:See also On 18 October, the US and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires received bomb threats via email, including one which said "Jews we are going to kill you all." Federal police evacuated the areas around the embassies in response, and an investigation was opened to find the source of the threats.

On 30 December, three foreign nationals from Lebanon and Syria were arrested under suspicion of planning an attack as the country held the Maccabiah Games. The three, reportedly waiting for a 35-kilo parcel from Yemen, were suspected to be part of a terror cell, and they rented rooms in a hotel which was no more than two blocks away from the Israeli embassy.

Brazil

On 8 November, Brazilian authorities announced they had arrested two suspects in a Hezbollah-backed terror plot to attack synagogues and other Jewish targets in the country.

Colombia

On 8 October, a column on the Israeli embassy in Bogotá was vandalized with a swastika, Star of David, and the word "terror" in Hebrew.

See also

• New antisemitism
• Timeline of antisemitism in the 21st century
• Anti-Palestinianism during the Israel–Hamas war
• Violent incidents in reaction to the Israel–Hamas war
• Islamophobia during the Israel–Hamas war

External links

• "Global Antisemitic Incidents In the Wake of Hamas' War on Israel", ADL