Antisemitic Threats and Violence in the West: A Running Tally By Zach Kessel
Since October 7, antisemitism has metastasized, growing from chants and signs held at rallies to violence and threats against Jews. This is by no means an exhaustive list — sadly, the incidents are likely too great in number to catalog — but it is a window into the conditions Jews have faced in America and the West since Hamas attacked Israel and antisemites celebrated. We will update this list as necessary, and unfortunately, it seems like it will be necessary.
- 10/12/23: Israeli Student Assaulted at Columbia University after Posting Photos of Hamas Hostages
- 10/14/23: Jewish Student’s Dorm Room Set on Fire at Drexel University
- 10/21/23: Israeli Harvard Business School Student Accosted and Harassed Amid Gaza ‘Die-In’ on Campus
- 10/24/23: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators batter pro-Israel activist helping old man in Skokie
- 10/25/23: Minneapolis Man Cast as Anti-Palestinian Agitator Was Trying to Get Home When Mob Surrounded Car
- 10/26/23: Jewish Students Hid in NYC College Library as Pro-Palestinian Protesters Banged on Doors, Called for ‘Intifada’
- 10/27/23: Man faces hate crime charges after threatening to kill Jewish family at their Studio City home
- 10/27/23: Prominent NYC synagogue vandalizes with anti-Israel graffiti, stickers: NYPD
- 10/30/23: Tulane Student Criticizes School after Being Assaulted While Preventing Israeli Flag Burning
- 11/3/23: Cornell Cancels Classes after Student Arrested for Antisemitic Threats of Murder, Rape
- 11/4/23: French Jewish woman stabbed in antisemitic attack, swastika painted on door
- 11/5/23: Jordanian man planning to attack Jews indicted in Texas
- 11/6/23: Indianapolis Woman Arrested for Plowing Car into Building She Thought Was a Jewish School
- 11/6/23: Man with pellet gun arrested outside Detroit Jewish federation building
- 11/7/23: Jewish Man Killed after Being Struck by Pro-Palestinian Protester in Los Angeles
- 11/7/23: UMass student arrested for punching Jewish student at Hillel vigil
- 11/7/23: UPenn notifies FBI of ‘disturbing’ antisemitic emails ‘threatening violence’ against its Jewish community
- 11/8/23: ‘I Will Murder You’: Jewish Man Attacked by Anti-Israel Mob in Australia, Grateful to Be Alive
- 11/8/23: Jewish Man Assaulted by Hate-Spewing Man in Crown Heights
- 11/9/23: Pro-Hamas Mob Attacks Jews Outside Museum of Tolerance in LA
- 11/10/23: Antisemites Spray Montreal Jewish Schools with Bullets, Hurl Molotov Cocktail at Synagogue as Anti-Jewish Hate Surges in Canada
- 11/10/23: New Jersey synagogue vandalized with graffiti
- 11/10/23: Ohio State students attacked in alleged hate crime, Jewish student center vandalized
- 11/10/23: Pro-Palestinian student group violently mobs Jewish students, screaming ‘Go back to Poland’
- 11/12/23: Montreal Jewish school targeted in shooting for second time in less than a week, police say
- 11/13/23: Jewish cemetery in Cleveland vandalized with swastika graffiti
- 11/13/23: Michigan man pleads guilty to making violent threats against Jews
- 11/23/23: FBI investigating after synagogue desecrated with anti-Israel, antisemitic graffiti
- 11/26/23: Attack on AIPAC president’s home in LA investigated as hate crime
- 11/27/23: Burbank police search for suspect that spray-painted swastikas on synagogue
- 11/27/23: ‘Burn in Hell’: Jewish Center at University of Florida Vandalized with Antisemitic Graffiti
- 11/27/23: Montreal police investigating after Jewish community center hit by Molotov cocktail
- 11/27/23: Two Women Arrested for Assaulting Jewish New Yorker in Hostage Poster Spat
- 11/29/23: Germany arrests teen for planning terror attack; synagogue said to be among possible targets
- 11/29/23: Italian rabbi attacked with screwdriver in antisemitic attack
- 11/30/23: Trio attacked 3 Jewish people, including teen, on Brooklyn street: NYPD
- 12/4/23: Pr0-Palestinian Protesters Mob Jewish-Owned Philadelphia Falafel Restaurant: ‘We Charge You With Genocide’
- 12/7/23: Suspect Yelled ‘Free Palestine’ While Firing Gun Outside Albany Synagogue
- 12/8/23: Menorah vandalized outside Montgomery County synagogue ahead of Hanukkah
- 12/8/23: Stranger pummels Jewish man, calls him ‘dirty Jew’ on first night of Hanukkah in NYC
- 12/11/23: Jewish Server Attacked with Chair in Chelsea
- 12/11/23: Man charged with hate crime in alleged robbery and assault on Jews in Beverly Hills on Shabbat
- 12/11/23: NYC man shouting ‘Free Palestine!’ throws rock at Jewish stranger
- 12/11/23: Two teen girls in UK arrested after beating Orthodox Jewish woman ‘unconscious’ in possible hate crime
- 12/12/23: Jewish SUNY Administrator Assaulted by Student for Displaying Israeli Flag in Office
- 12/14/23: Hate crime investigation underway after large menorah destroyed, thrown in lake in Oakland, California
- 12/15/23: Denmark widens terror probe as alleged Hamas members arrested in Germany
- 12/15/23: Man who vandalized California synagogue charged with hate crimes
- 12/16/23: Canadian youth faces terrorism charges for alleged plot against Jewish people
- 12/29/23: Baltimore Hebrew Congregation’s signs vandalized for second time
- 1/2/24: Jewish teen assaulted, called ‘w****’ in US mall for wearing IDF sweater
- 1/6/24: Teen beaten into saying ‘Free Palestine’ outside London Jewish school
- 1/10/24: Hate crime charge for Brooklyn resident in assault on Orthodox man in Williamsburg
- 1/10/24: Man arrested over antisemitic assault north of Toronto
- 1/23/24: Jewish woman was ‘scared she’d die’ as she and 2 friends ‘attacked by 20 men’
- 1/29/24: Man arrested after brandishing knife at kosher supermarket in Golders Green, London
- 1/29/24: Rabbi attacked by Lyft driver in Northwest DC
- 2/5/24: Grandson of Munich massacre victim assaulted in Berlin in alleged hate crime
- 2/7/24: New York man attacked by pro-Palestinian for having Israeli flag outside home
- 2/17/24: Suspect in shooting of 2 Jewish men in LA faces hate crime charges
- 2/18/24: A Jewish man was attacked near a synagogue in Broward. Police say it was a hate crime
- 2/27/24: ‘I’m screaming for help’: Jewish students face violence at UC Berkeley Israel talk
- 2/27/24: El Camino Real High School students stage walkout over alleged antisemitic attack at school
- 3/1/24: Orthodox Jewish man reportedly killed in San Diego shooting
- 3/3/24: Jewish man attacked outside Paris synagogue
- 3/3/24: Swiss teenager arrested on suspicion of stabbing an Orthodox Jewish man on a Zurich street
- 3/5/24: ‘Aggressive mob’ of pro-Palestine demonstrators block Montreal Jews from event at Holocaust Museum
- 3/6/24: Jewish students targeted by violent messages, death threats at Ontario arts university
- 3/6/24: Jewish students are left feeling ‘absolutely broken’ after being mobbed by 100 pro-Palestine protesters
- 3/11/24: Man arrested for assaulting, threatening Jewish people with “sharp object” in Sunny Isles Beach
- 3/13/24: Jewish man attacked by anti-Israel protesters at October 7 documentary screening in Logan Square
- 3/14/24: Rideshare driver punches passenger in face because he thought they were Jewish, feds say
- 3/16/24: Man arrested in alleged arson attack at Jewish Community Center in Fort Lauderdale
- 3/19/24: Two Orthodox Jewish Men Fired at by Pellet Gun on Upper West Side
- 4/21/24: Jewish Yale student journalist stabbed in the eye with Palestinian flag during protest
- 4/26/24: France shocked after Jewish woman reports rape, assault to ‘avenge Palestine’
- 4/26/24: Jewish demonstrators attacked by Arabs in Milan
- 4/26/24: Keffiyeh-Clad Man Arrested for Attempting to Assault Pro-Israel Marchers outside Columbia
- 5/1/24: Warsaw synagogue attacked at night with 3 firebombs, no injuries reported
- 5/9/24: Police investigate attack on Michigan synagogue members by ‘Jew hater’
- 5/14/24: Two charged with plotting Islamic terror attack on British Jews
- 5/16/24: Jewish children savagely beaten by man in New York City attack
- 5/16/24: Jewish Student at Reed College Struck by Rock a Day After Vandalism of Religious Symbol
- 5/17/24: Jewish father, daughter attacked by mob at Belgium train station
- 5/24/24: Jewish teenager chased through London streets by stone-throwing attackers
- 5/27/24: Pittsburgh man arrested for having explosive material, defacing synagogue
- 5/26/24: California man, who allegedly said ‘I’m going to kill the Jews,’ faces 10 years in prison
- 5/29/24: 18 Mexican police officers injured by firebombs thrown in riot at Israeli embassy
- 5/30/24: Man attempts to run down Jewish students in Brooklyn
- 5/31/24: Vancouver synagogue doors set on fire in arson attack
- 6/6/24: USC Chabad glass door smashed by two vandals
- 6/11/24: UCLA Chabad rabbi assaulted, told to go back to Poland
- 6/12/24: Brooklyn Museum director, Jewish board members’ homes vandalized with antisemitic graffiti: ‘Blood on your hands’
- 6/13/24: Activist involved in kidnapping Australian man seen wearing Hamas logo
- 6/14/24: ‘I wish Hitler was still here’: Anti-Israel protester shouts at Nova massacre memorial
- 6/16/24: Ontario synagogue window smashed as attacks on Canadian Jewish sites continue
- 6/16/24: Park Avenue Synagogue vandalized with ‘Palestine’ graffiti
- 6/18/24: Plaque for Belgian resistance fighters who saved Jews defaced with swastika
- 6/19/24: Australian Jewish MP Josh Burns’s office vandalized, burnt by pro-Palestinian vandals
- 6/19/24: French teens, 12-year-old arrested for gang rape, antisemitic attack of Jewish girl, 12
- 6/19/24: ‘Gas the Jews’: US man pleads guilty to cyberstalking, threatening synagogues, businesses
- 6/19/24: Stamford Hill kidnapping attack part of series of antisemitic assaults
- 6/20/24: NYPD seeks person involved in intimidation of Zionists on subway
- 6/20/24: Shots fired at Montreal Israeli cuisine eatery on anti-Zionist boycott list
- 6/21/24: NYC: Five people pelt Jew with traffic cones, bottles, antisemitic abuse
- 6/23/24: ‘Escalate for Palestine’: Belgian Holocaust memorial defaced
- 6/23/24: Jewish Parent Assaulted by Family Shouting ‘Free Palestine!’ at Brooklyn Elementary-School Graduation
- 6/23/24: Miami bagel shop vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti for the fourth time since October 7
- 6/24/24: Anti-Israel Mob Beats Jewish Woman in Riot outside Los Angeles Synagogue
- 6/26/24: ‘Get Out of the City, Jew!’ Jewish Children Assaulted in Alleged Hate Crime in London
- 6/26/24: Six Jewish youths attacked outside Paris cinema
- 6/27/24: Jewish Federation board chair assaulted in brazen lunchtime attack
- 6/28/24: Message calling for an ‘attack’ on ‘Zionists’ found in Jewish area of London
- 6/28/24: Swastikas painted in front of Baltimore Jewish home
- 6/30/24: Toronto synagogue pelted with stones, glass panels shattered
- 6/30/24: ‘We are going to take off your head,’ Jewish woman told by Belgian student activists
- 7/1/24: Masked Activists Violently Attack Jews at North Carolina Public Library
- 7/1/24: Security guard attacked otuside Jewish school in French city of Nice
- 7/2/24: 176 Jewish gravestones vandalized at 2 Cincinnati cemeteries
- 7/8/24: Oakland synagogue vandalized twice in 2 weeks: ‘It is antisemitism’
- 7/12/24: Jewish Man Attacked in Northwest D.C. in Alleged Hate Crime
- 7/14/24: Sydney’s oldest synagogue vandalized with banner reading ‘sanction Israel’
- 7/16/24: Neo-Nazi known as ‘Commander Butcher’ charged for attempting to poison Jewish children in New York
- 7/26/24: Police Investigating Vandalism of Synagogue in Hoboken
- 7/30/24: Pittsburgh synagogue vandalized with pro-Hamas graffiti
- 7/30/24: Toronto Jewish sites attacked: School bus burned, anti-Israel graffiti found
- 7/31/24: Threatening pro-Hamas graffiti appears near Calgary synagogue during pro-Israel march
- 8/5/24: Brooklyn Museum director home vandal charged, Hamas flags flown at museum
- 8/5/24: ‘Free Gaza’: Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam defaced for second time in one month
- 8/6/24: Rochester synagogue latest to be defaced with offensive graffiti
- 8/8/24: Jewish fraternity at Temple University targeted by repeated vandalism and trespassing
- 8/12/24: Attacker Stabs Jewish Man in Brooklyn after Yelling ‘Free Palestine’
- 8/18/24: Three more charged in anti-Israel Bristol sledgehammer attacks
- 8/19/24: Police in Argentina arrest 7 accused of plotting terror attacks on Jewish targets
- 8/20/24: Four more Maryland schools vandalized with antisemitic, anti-Israel graffiti
- 8/20/24: Bethesda synagogue hit for second time amid spate of hate-bias vandalism
- 8/23/24: Canadian Jews, synagogues threatened with bombs
- 8/25/24: Mezuzah stripped from door in LA synagogue’s 3rd defacement in recent months
- 8/25/24: Swastikas graffitied throughout NYC neighborhood
- 8/28/24: New Hampshire man faces charges for smashing synagogue lamps
- 8/28/24: Suspect in Explosion at French Synagogue ‘Nursed Hatred of Jews,’ Wanted to Fight in Gaza
- 8/29/24: New York Police Department hunt for man who spat in victim’s face, made antisemitic remarks
- 8/31/24: Man charged with assault on 2 Jewish students on University of Pittsburgh campus
- 9/3/24: NYC straphanger spews antisemitic rant at Jewish student, disturbing video shows: ‘This is a genocider who loves to kill babies’
- 9/4/24: Jewish NY barber stabbed with own scissors by ‘boozed up’ patron after angry debate over Israel: ‘I want to kill you’
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