In January, the CAM Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) monitored 468 antisemitic incidents globally. This marked a daily average of 15.1, up 171% from the previous January.

More than 65% (306) of these involved Israel-related acts of antisemitism, a concerning rise that can be attributed to global expressions of anti-Zionism in the aftermath of Hamas' October 7th Massacre. 

This included 87 incidents involving acts of vandalism directed at Jewish institutions and private properties.

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations, a noticeable uptick in incidents of vandalism at Holocaust memorials was monitored. In Philadelphia, the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza was vandalized twice within three days. In Milan, Italy, antisemitic graffiti was drawn on a Holocaust memorial. In Leipzig, Germany, portraits of Holocaust survivors were desecrated.

More than 70% of all January's incidents involved hate speech (329 incidents). In New York City, pro-Hamas protesters yelled "Shame on you" at patients of a pediatric cancer ward that had received a donation from a prominent Jewish businessman. In Sweden, an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event was disrupted by 15-20 protesters chanting "Israel murderer." American white supremacist Nick Fuentes told his podcast audience that when he takes power he will kill Jews because they must be "absolutely annihilated."

In addition, more than 10% involved the use or threat of violence (52 incidents), including an attempted mass stabbing at a London kosher supermarket where the perpetrator demanded to know what the staff thought about "Israel and Palestine."

On Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., a bipartisan group of U.S. House of Representatives staffers received an in-depth briefing on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism at forum co-organized by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), and Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

There were 5 new adoptions of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism across the globe in January. Among these was Georgia, which became the 35th U.S. state to adopt the most widely-embraced definition of antisemitism. It was the ninth state to do so through legislative action. 

In January, the Combat Antisemitism Movement, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, released its 2023 IHRA Report, which showed 97 entities adopted or endorsed the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism last year, bringing the global total to 1,216.

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