A young Orthodox Jewish woman was hospitalized with a concussion after she was attacked on a subway train in Manhattan last weekend by a fellow passenger who shouted antisemitic invective at her, including “Jews are eating kids,” during the assault.
Cellphone video footage of the incident provided to CAM showed the suspect, 34-year-old Brooklyn resident Diana Smith, verbally harassing the victim before lunging at her and grabbing her throat. The Jewish woman was then thrown to the ground and had a fistful of hair ripped from her scalp.
Other incidents recorded by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM across the globe this week included:
- United States: On the first anniversary of the antisemitic firebombing in Boulder, Colorado, that killed Karen Diamond, an 82-year-old Jewish woman taking part in a march calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) released a statement defending the terrorist perpetrator, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, calling the attack a “direct action against the Zionist death cult festering in our city.”
Read more on SJP’s long record of violent incitement and terror glorification here.
- Germany: An Israeli family attempting to reserve a room at Hotel Zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria, received a message through Booking.com stating: “Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel.”
- United Kingdom: An unidentified man deliberately ignited a fire in the communal stairwell of a predominantly-Jewish residential building in London’s Golders Green neighborhood.
Of the 120 incidents attributable to a specific ideology monitored by the ARC this week:
- 72 (60%) were Far-Left, 29 (24.2%) Islamist-Inspired, and 19 (15.8%) Far-Right.
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Data on Antisemitic Incidents
The latest Global Antisemitism Report highlights 130 new incidents of antisemitism monitored worldwide by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM during the past week.
Of incidents attributable to an ideological motivation, 60.0% were Far-Left (72 incidents), 24.2% Islamist-Inspired (29 incidents), and 15.8% Far-Right (19 incidents).