In an era of surging antisemitic hate, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has deployed one of its most practical weapons yet: a mobile application called "Report It," designed to place the power of documentation directly in the hands of witnesses and victims. The app allows anyone — whether a pedestrian confronting freshly sprayed swastikas on a synagogue wall, a student facing harassment on campus, or a commuter subjected to a slur on public transport — to immediately log, photograph, and transmit evidence of antisemitic incidents to a centralized monitoring database. In an age when hate is accelerating and institutional responses often lag far behind, this technological solution represents a critical escalation in the organized fight against one of the world's oldest and most persistent forms of bigotry. The urgency behind "Report It" is not hypothetical: it is driven by documented, verifiable, and alarming statistics that reveal antisemitism at historic highs across the Western world.
The Surge That Made "Report It" Necessary
The backdrop against which "Report It" was promoted is a global antisemitism crisis that has intensified dramatically since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis — the deadliest single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. In the months that followed that atrocity, antisemitic incidents across the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia exploded to levels not seen in decades. The Anti-Defamation League recorded over 8,873 antisemitic incidents in the United States in 2023 alone — a 140% increase compared to 2022 and the highest number since the organization began tracking such data in 1979. Jewish communities found themselves facing bomb threats, vandalism, physical assaults, and open calls for genocide, not only from fringe extremists but increasingly from mainstream campus organizations and public demonstrations.
The global pattern was equally alarming. In the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Canada, Jewish communities reported record-breaking surges in harassment and hate crimes. Canada's own statistics revealed that 68.5% of all religiously motivated hate crimes targeted Jewish Canadians — a community that represents less than 1% of the national population. Against this backdrop, tools that could systematically document and track incidents became not a luxury but a necessity for ensuring that patterns of hate were recorded, reported to authorities, and used to hold perpetrators accountable.
The Combat Antisemitism Movement and Its Mission
The Combat Antisemitism Movement is a global coalition that unites a broad and politically diverse spectrum of civil society, religious, and governmental actors in the explicit mission of eradicating antisemitism from public life. Founded with the conviction that fighting Jew-hatred must transcend partisan politics, CAM brings together leaders from Jewish and non-Jewish communities, faith groups, legislators, and activists in a common framework of action. The movement operates internationally, advocates for stronger legal protections against antisemitism, campaigns against hate speech on social media platforms, and equips communities with practical tools for self-defense and documentation. The promotion of the "Report It" app is a direct expression of CAM's operational philosophy: that grassroots reporting, when systematized and aggregated, generates the kind of evidence base that compels institutional responses from governments, law enforcement, and technology companies.
The "Report It" platform is designed with accessibility as its core principle. A user who witnesses antisemitic graffiti on a wall, a hate symbol painted on a Jewish institution, or a verbal or physical assault can open the app, describe the incident, attach a photograph, tag the geographic location, and submit the report within minutes. The data is then compiled into a broader intelligence picture that informs advocacy, law enforcement cooperation, and public awareness campaigns. This model mirrors similar successful frameworks in other civil rights contexts but is specifically calibrated to address the unique and evolving nature of contemporary antisemitism, which manifests across digital, physical, and institutional environments.
Key Facts About "Report It" and the Antisemitism Crisis
- The ADL's Audit of Antisemitic Incidents documented 8,873 incidents in the United States in 2023 — the highest annual total since tracking began in 1979 — driven in large part by the fallout from the Hamas October 7 massacre and the subsequent campus protest movement.
- The Combat Antisemitism Movement's "Report It" app enables citizens to document antisemitic graffiti, verbal harassment, physical assaults, and institutional discrimination in real time, with geotagged photographic evidence automatically integrated into a centralized monitoring database accessible to advocates and law enforcement partners.
- According to B'nai Brith Canada, the country saw a 124% increase in antisemitism following the appointment of a Special Envoy tasked with addressing the problem — a grim indicator of how rapidly the environment has deteriorated and how urgently systematic documentation tools are needed.
Why Citizen-Led Reporting Is a Force Multiplier
Traditional mechanisms for reporting hate crimes are plagued by well-documented weaknesses: underreporting driven by fear and distrust, slow bureaucratic intake processes, and institutional reluctance to classify incidents as hate-motivated without prior advocacy pressure. Apps like "Report It" circumvent these bottlenecks by creating an independent, community-owned record that exists regardless of whether police or government agencies act. When communities aggregate hundreds or thousands of independently submitted incidents from a single city or campus, the cumulative data is extraordinarily difficult for administrators or officials to dismiss. The Combat Antisemitism Movement understands that in the modern information environment, the battle against antisemitism is also a battle of documentation — a contest over what gets recorded, preserved, and amplified.
This philosophy is especially vital on university campuses, where Jewish students have repeatedly faced hostile environments that administrators have been slow to acknowledge or address. When Jewish students at UCLA, Columbia, Harvard, and dozens of other institutions were subjected to exclusion zones, chants glorifying Hamas, and systematic harassment, their accounts were initially met with institutional denial. It was precisely the kind of evidence accumulated by tools like "Report It" — timestamped, geolocated, photographic — that eventually forced accountability, contributed to Congressional investigations, and enabled landmark legal settlements such as UCLA's $6.13 million agreement with Jewish students who documented civil rights violations.
The Significance of Building a Global Antisemitism Record
The broader significance of "Report It" extends beyond any individual incident. Every act of antisemitism that is documented, timestamped, and entered into a shared database contributes to a living historical record — one that counters the inevitable attempts to minimize, normalize, or erase evidence of Jew-hatred from public consciousness. History has repeatedly demonstrated that antisemitism left unrecorded and unpunished does not remain contained; it escalates. The Holocaust was not an event that arrived without warning or without precursors that were documented, ignored, and ultimately enabled by institutional indifference.
In the current climate — in which hostile state actors including Iran actively fund and direct antisemitic propaganda networks, Hamas-aligned organizations operate openly on Western campuses, and social media platforms have repeatedly failed to remove genocidal content targeting Jews — the work of organizations like CAM and tools like "Report It" represent a frontline defense. As the ADL has noted in explaining its own incident methodology, data collected through community reporting is the foundation upon which all effective legislative, legal, and educational responses to antisemitism are built. To report is not merely to react — it is to resist.