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Chapters of CAIR have reported other instances of [[Islamophobia]] since the war began with two alleged assaults' in [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York City]] and an individual who pointed a gun at pro-Palestine demonstrators outside of the [[Pennsylvania State Capitol|Pennsylvania state capitol]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shah |first=Simmone |date=2023-10-18 |title=The Israel-Hamas War is Leading to an Uptick in Hate Crimes |url=https://time.com/6324995/muslim-jewish-hate-crimes-israel-hamas-war/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |magazine=TIME |language=en |archive-date=2023-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019000356/https://time.com/6324995/muslim-jewish-hate-crimes-israel-hamas-war/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On October 28, a [[Princeton University]] staff member who took issue with a message assaulted a student at a protest.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rupertus |first=Annie |date=2023-10-31 |title=Princeton staff member assaults student at pro-Palestine protest in town |url=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-news-broadfocus-palestine-protest-assault-staff |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101071557/https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-news-broadfocus-palestine-protest-assault-staff |archive-date=2023-11-01 |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=[[The Princetonian]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
Chapters of CAIR have reported other instances of [[Islamophobia]] since the war began with two alleged assaults' in [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York City]] and an individual who pointed a gun at pro-Palestine demonstrators outside of the [[Pennsylvania State Capitol|Pennsylvania state capitol]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shah |first=Simmone |date=2023-10-18 |title=The Israel-Hamas War is Leading to an Uptick in Hate Crimes |url=https://time.com/6324995/muslim-jewish-hate-crimes-israel-hamas-war/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |magazine=TIME |language=en |archive-date=2023-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019000356/https://time.com/6324995/muslim-jewish-hate-crimes-israel-hamas-war/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On October 28, a [[Princeton University]] staff member who took issue with a message assaulted a student at a protest.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rupertus |first=Annie |date=2023-10-31 |title=Princeton staff member assaults student at pro-Palestine protest in town |url=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-news-broadfocus-palestine-protest-assault-staff |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101071557/https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-news-broadfocus-palestine-protest-assault-staff |archive-date=2023-11-01 |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=[[The Princetonian]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In late November, several videos emerged depicting 64-year-old [[Stuart Seldowitz]] harassing and threatening a 24-year-old [[halal cart]] vendor in the [[Upper East Side]] with a series of racist and Islamophobic questions and remarks, including calling the vendor a "[[Terrorism|terrorist]]" and a "terrible person", asking, "Did you rape your daughter like [[Muhammad]] did?", asking, "What do you think of that – people who use the [[Quran]] as a toilet?" threatening to call Egyptian intelligence services to torture the vendor's father, and stating, "If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what? It was enough. It wasn’t enough!"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-22 |title=Gotham Government Relations cuts ties with former Obama administration official caught harassing halal cart vendor |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2023/11/gotham-government-relations-cuts-ties-former-obama-administration-official-caught-harassing-halal-cart-vendor/392235/ |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=City & State NY |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=El-Bawab |first=Nadine |date=2023-11-24 |title=Former Obama official charged with harassment, stalking of halal cart vendor |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-obama-official-charged-harassment-stalking-halal-cart/story?id=105123245 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124164134/https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-obama-official-charged-harassment-stalking-halal-cart/story?id=105123245 |archive-date=2023-11-24 |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=ABC News |language=en-US}}</ref> The videos were recorded during several incidents over the course of two weeks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-24 |title=Former Obama adviser granted supervised release after halal cart confrontation |url=https://abc7ny.com/halal-cart-confrontation-stuart-seldowitz-former-obama-adviser-supervised-release/14097643/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124164736/https://abc7ny.com/halal-cart-confrontation-stuart-seldowitz-former-obama-adviser-supervised-release/14097643/ |archive-date=2023-11-24 |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en-US}}</ref> Seldowitz worked in the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]]’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs and then served as Acting Director of the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]] South Asia Directorate during the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]]. He was also the Foreign Affairs Chair at Gotham Government Relations, a lobbying firm, which ended all affiliation with him after the video emerged. The [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] said it was aware of the videos and was monitoring the situation, reporting that Seldowitz's behavior made the vendor feel "afraid and annoyed." Seldowitz was taken into custody on November 22 and charged with one count of aggravated harassment of race or religion and four counts of stalking as a hate crime. He was granted supervised release on November 23 under the condition that he refrain from interacting with food cart vendors.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-22 |title=Former Obama adviser in custody, faces hate crime charges after halal cart confrontation |url=https://abc7ny.com/halal-cart-confrontation-former-obama-adviser-harassment/14092785/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en}}</ref>


On 25 November, [[2023 shooting of Palestinian students in Burlington, Vermont|three Palestinian college students]] from [[Brown University|Brown University,]] [[Haverford College]], and [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]] in [[Burlington, Vermont]] were confronted and shot and wounded by a white man, leaving one of the students in [[Medical state|critical condition]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tebor |first1=Celina |last2=Sottile |first2=Zoe |title=3 Palestinian college students shot in Vermont |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/26/us/palestinian-students-shot-burlington-vermont/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref>
On 25 November, [[2023 shooting of Palestinian students in Burlington, Vermont|three Palestinian college students]] from [[Brown University|Brown University,]] [[Haverford College]], and [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]] in [[Burlington, Vermont]] were confronted and shot and wounded by a white man, leaving one of the students in [[Medical state|critical condition]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tebor |first1=Celina |last2=Sottile |first2=Zoe |title=3 Palestinian college students shot in Vermont |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/26/us/palestinian-students-shot-burlington-vermont/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref>

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Since 7 October 2023, numerous violent incidents prompted by the Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing Israel–Hamas war have been reported worldwide. These attacks have accompanied a sharp increase in global antisemitism and Islamophobia, as well as anti-Israeli sentiment and anti-Palestinian sentiment or broader anti-Arab sentiment.[1] However, other people groups have also been targeted, such as the Sikhs,[2] who are commonly mistaken to be Muslims by their attackers in a phenomenon that has become increasingly common since the 9/11 attacks of 2001.[3]

Attacks against Jews and Israelis

See also: Antisemitism during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

On 8 October, a police officer fired his gun into a group of bus passengers in Alexandria, Egypt.[4] The attack occurred during a trip past Pompey's Pillar.[5] Two Israeli tourists and an Egyptian tour guide were killed, while another Israeli was moderately wounded.[6] The suspect was subsequently taken into custody.[7]

On 13 October an Israeli diplomat was stabbed in Beijing, China,[8] for which a foreign suspect was arrested.[9]

On 17 October the El Hamma synagogue in El Hamma, Tunisia, a historic synagogue and the burial site of 16th-century Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Ma'aravi, was severely damaged during anti-Israel riots, with hundreds of people filmed setting fire to the building.[10][11][12] On the same day the Or Zaruah synagogue in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, was attacked by a mob chanting “murderous Israel” while waving Palestinian flags.[13][14][15]

On 18 October two Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in the Mitte neighborhood of central Berlin. One person was arrested.[16] On 21 October an explosive device was detonated near the Israeli embassy in Cyprus, four men of Syrian origin were detained.[17] Since 28 October, a wave of antisemitic attacks occurred in the North Caucasus region of Russia.[18]

Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, was fatally injured in an dispute between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrators on November 5 in Westlake Village, Los Angeles County, California. Initial reports indicated that he fell and hit his head on the ground, and may have been hit by a megaphone used by a pro-Palestine demonstrator, although police did not initially confirm that. As of November 7, a suspect was detained and later released.[19][20]

On 8 November 2023, two men were arrested by Brazilian police in São Paulo following a warning from the Mossad that Hezbollah was planning an attack against the country's Jewish community. Searches were also conducted in Brasilia and Minas Gerais in connection with the alleged plot.[21]

Attacks against Palestinians/Arabs and Muslims

See also: Anti-Palestinianism during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war and Islamophobia during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war

United States

Midwest

Further information: Killing of Wadea al-Fayoume

Outside Chicago, Illinois, a man while reportedly yelling "You Muslims must die" stabbed a 32-year-old Palestinian-American woman, seriously injuring her, and stabbed her six-year-old son 26 times to death. Detectives said the man targeted the family because they were Muslim, and he was upset about the conflict.[22][23][24][25][26]

On October 19, a man in Dearborn, Michigan was arrested by local police after posting on Facebook a credible threat proposing acts of violence against Palestinian-Americans in Dearborn which is the largest population of Arab Americans in the United States. The man had posted an open invitation to "hunt Palestinians" and claimed to be part of a Jewish group protecting Israel.[27]

West

The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles called for an investigation to be opened by the University of California, Los Angeles after a group of men entered a space used by students watching a webinar of an ongoing panel titled "The Crisis in Palestine". The men reportedly damaged students property, verbally assaulted them calling them "terrorists" and physically threatening them before campus security removed them from the area. One of the group was allegedly spotted later at a on-campus vigil for Israel.[28][29] On 4 November, an Arab Muslim student at Stanford University was hit by car driven by a white man who yelled, "fuck you and your people."[30] The incident was investigated as a hate crime.[30]

East

Further information: 2023 shooting of Palestinian students in Burlington, Vermont

Chapters of CAIR have reported other instances of Islamophobia since the war began with two alleged assaults' in Brooklyn, New York City and an individual who pointed a gun at pro-Palestine demonstrators outside of the Pennsylvania state capitol.[31] On October 28, a Princeton University staff member who took issue with a message assaulted a student at a protest.[32]

On 25 November, three Palestinian college students from Brown University, Haverford College, and Trinity College in Burlington, Vermont were confronted and shot and wounded by a white man, leaving one of the students in critical condition.[33]

Europe

In Europe, many Muslims fear anti-Muslim reprisals due to the Israel–Hamas war and concurrent Islamic terrorist attacks (such as the Arras school stabbing and Brussels shooting, which occurred in October 2023); the war and the attacks have emboldened some far-right voices in the Western world that assert Muslims as a fifth column and an internal enemy to Europe's security.[34]

Attacks against other people groups

Attacks against Sikhs

In mid-October 2023, 66-year-old Jasmer Singh was beaten to death by 30-year-old Gilbert Augustin in Queens, New York. The two men had gotten into an altercation after Singh's vehicle collided with Augustin's vehicle; Augustin got out of his car and began harassing Singh while yelling racist slurs regarding his turban before assaulting him.[35]

Attacks against Europeans

On 16 October 2023, three Swedes were shot in Brussels, Belgium, by a man who identified himself as Abdesalem Al-Guilani; two of them were killed and the third was injured.[36] The man, of Tunisian origin, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State after the shooting. He was shot dead by Belgian police on 17 October.[37]

See also

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