In an era when antisemitic incidents are surging to levels unseen in decades, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has deployed a powerful technological weapon in the fight against Jew-hatred: the "Report It" app, a mobile platform that allows users anywhere in the world to document antisemitic incidents anonymously and in real time. With its urgent call to action — "See it. Report it. Stop it." — CAM is confronting one of the most persistent challenges in combating antisemitism: the vast, systemic underreporting that allows hatred to fester and spread unchecked. The app represents not only a practical resource for victims and witnesses, but a statement of principle — that silence in the face of antisemitism is not an option. In a climate where Jewish communities from New York to Paris to Buenos Aires face daily threats, the "Report It" initiative stands as a critical infrastructure of moral accountability.
The Combat Antisemitism Movement: A Global Coalition
CAM was established as a broad-based international coalition uniting organizations, governments, faith communities, and individuals across ideological, religious, and political lines in a shared commitment to eradicating antisemitism in all its forms. Unlike organizations that focus on a single community or region, CAM operates on the recognition that antisemitism is a global disease requiring a global response. The movement has brought together hundreds of partner organizations from across the spectrum, united by endorsement of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism — the most widely accepted international standard for identifying anti-Jewish hatred.
Central to CAM's strategy is transforming awareness into action. The "Report It" app emerged from the understanding that antisemitic incidents are dramatically undercounted because victims and witnesses either fear retaliation, distrust institutions, or simply do not know where to turn. By offering an anonymous, immediate, and accessible reporting mechanism, CAM bridges that gap, channeling real-world incidents into a structured, searchable record that can inform policy, law enforcement, and public education. The app is available to users globally, reflecting CAM's conviction that antisemitism knows no borders and that every incident — however seemingly minor — deserves to be documented.
The Scale of the Problem Demands Urgent Tools
The urgency behind the "Report It" app is underscored by data that reveals an alarming trajectory. The Anti-Defamation League's annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents found that antisemitic incidents in the United States soared 140 percent in 2023, breaking all previous records and totaling over 8,800 incidents — the highest number since tracking began in 1979. The spike followed the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis, which unleashed a wave of antisemitic harassment, vandalism, and assault across the Western world. In the United Kingdom, the Community Security Trust recorded similar record highs. In France, antisemitic acts more than tripled in the months after October 7, prompting emergency government interventions. This global surge demonstrated definitively that antisemitism is not a relic of the past — it is a live, metastasizing threat.
Critically, experts and community leaders consistently note that official statistics represent only a fraction of actual incidents, as the majority go unreported. Victims frequently cite fear of reprisal, skepticism about institutional response, or the psychological burden of reliving a traumatic encounter as reasons for their silence. The digital anonymity offered by CAM's "Report It" app directly addresses these barriers, lowering the threshold for documentation and ensuring that even incidents that would never reach law enforcement are captured, counted, and contextualized.
Key Facts About the App and the Crisis It Addresses
- CAM's "Report It" app enables fully anonymous, real-time submission of antisemitic incidents from any location in the world, creating a crowdsourced global record of hatred that complements — and often exceeds — what official law enforcement channels capture.
- The ADL's 2023 Audit documented 8,873 antisemitic incidents in the United States alone — the highest annual total ever recorded — including 1,719 instances of harassment, 6,938 incidents of vandalism, and 216 physical assaults, with a dramatic spike following October 7.
- Research consistently shows that antisemitic incidents are severely underreported, with estimates suggesting that for every incident recorded by major monitoring organizations, several more go undocumented, meaning the true scale of anti-Jewish hatred is substantially greater than any published figures reflect.
Why Anonymous Reporting Is a Force Multiplier Against Hate
The design philosophy behind the "Report It" app reflects a sophisticated understanding of the barriers that perpetuate underreporting. Anonymity is not simply a convenience — it is often the decisive factor in whether a victim or bystander chooses to act. In academic environments, Jewish students have documented fears of social ostracism or academic retaliation for reporting antisemitic acts by peers or professors. In professional settings, employees may fear career consequences for reporting colleagues. In communities with significant populations hostile to Jewish identity, victims may reasonably fear escalation. By stripping away the identity requirement, CAM removes a core psychological obstacle and transforms the act of reporting from a potentially high-cost intervention into an accessible civic act.
Furthermore, aggregated anonymous reports create patterns that individual, isolated complaints cannot. When a university campus shows a cluster of incidents across a semester, or when a neighborhood records repeated vandalism during a specific period, that data becomes actionable intelligence for community leaders, lawmakers, and law enforcement. The Combat Antisemitism Movement has structured its reporting infrastructure precisely to generate this kind of macro-level intelligence from micro-level observations, turning individual acts of moral courage into collective strategic insight.
The Broader Significance: Technology in the Fight Against Jew-Hatred
CAM's "Report It" app reflects a broader, necessary evolution in how civil society confronts antisemitism in the digital age. Just as antisemitism has found new vectors in social media platforms, online radicalization networks, and encrypted messaging channels, the organizations fighting it must embrace technology as a core tool rather than an afterthought. Incident-reporting apps, when combined with AI-driven monitoring of online hate speech and robust legal advocacy, form a 21st-century defense architecture for Jewish communities worldwide. The app's "real time" capability is particularly significant: it captures the immediacy of incidents, preserving evidence and emotional context that can fade or be lost if reporting is delayed.
The moral clarity of CAM's message — "Do not stay silent" — resonates beyond the Jewish community. Silence in the face of antisemitism has historically been not a neutral act but a form of complicity, and the lessons of history make unambiguously clear where such complicity leads. By offering the world a frictionless mechanism to bear witness and report, CAM is building a culture of accountability that challenges every individual to choose action over passivity. As the ADL has documented, comprehensive incident data is foundational to effective advocacy, legal enforcement, and public education — and it begins with a single act: reporting what you see.