A 20-year-old Ohio resident, Timur Mamatov, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime after attacking two Jewish students near Ohio State University in 2023. He asked if the victims were Jewish before assaulting them, breaking one student’s jaw and another’s nose. Mamatov now faces up to 10 years in prison.
The Toronto International Film Festival reversed its decision and will screen a documentary about a rescue mission during the October 7th attacks. Festival organizers had initially pulled the film, saying that they had not received clearance from Hamas to screen footage used in the documentary, but reinstated it following public backlash.
A kosher meal served aboard a JetBlue flight was allegedly defaced with the term “Zionazi.” JetBlue responded, stating it has a zero tolerance for hate and bias and launched an immediate investigation.
A former youth organizer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Iman Abdul, was arrested after allegedly posting a Google Maps screenshot of a Jewish high school in New York City and encouraging her 25,000 Instagram followers to “attack” it because “…Zionists all attend here.” Abdul is being charged with harassment and making a terrorism-related threat.
A letter to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce accuses the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) union of promoting antisemitism at MIT, Stanford, and Cornell. The letter alleges the union created a hostile environment for Jewish graduate students by forcing them to pay dues that fund the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Additionally, it claims the union denied religious accommodations to students who requested not to pay these dues.
The FBI released its 2024 hate crime statistics revealing that Jewish people were targeted in 70% of all religious-based hate crimes — a significant increase from 62% in 2023. Hate crimes against Jews constituted 16% of all reported hate crime offenses, including incidents of assault, vandalism, and harassment. On average, there were more than five anti-Jewish hate crimes per day in 2024.