Antisemitic Incidents Worldwide 2024

The data on antisemitism worldwide for 2024, based on information provided to the Report by dozens of police departments, specialized agencies and organizations that monitor and combat antisemitism, Jewish communities, Jewish leaders, and media organizations, inform of an increase in comparison to 2023 in the total number of incidents in several countries, including Australia, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy and Switzerland, and a decrease in several other countries, including France, Britain, Germany, Mexico and South Africa. New York, the largest Jewish city in the world, saw an increase, and so did Chicago, home to the third largest Jewish population in the United States, and several other American cities with significant Jewish populations, while other American cities saw decreases. As in 2023, the state of antisemitism worldwide in 2024 was impacted by the war in Gaza, and the number of incidents in every country with major Jewish populations remained alarmingly high in comparison to pre-October 7, 2023, days. Still, our data suggest that contrary to common conceptions, antisemitism has not grown linearly and steadily since October 7. Rather, as the comparative analyses below demonstrate, the peak in the current wave of antisemitism was registered in the immediate aftermath of October 7, at a time when Israel seemed most weak and existentially endangered and before it had lost much capital in the courts of international public opinion.