Germany Records Highest-Ever Number of Antisemitic Incidents
RIAS said 68% of the cases were Israel-related, with 178 assaults and 257 threats reported.
- On Wednesday, the Berlin-based Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism released its annual report, documenting a record 8,725 incidents of antisemitism in Germany during 2025.
- Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, noted the tally averages about 24 incidents daily, with Israel-related antisemitism accounting for 68% of all cases since Oct. 7, 2023.
- RIAS reported four cases of extreme violence, including a terrorist attack at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, alongside incidents in Kehl and Hesse.
- Schuster described the findings as a grim reality where antisemitism is solidifying at record levels rather than easing, continuing to affect Jewish people across Germany.
- The 2025 tally rose by 98 incidents from 2024, including 178 assaults and 257 threats, marking a significant increase from the 2,480 incidents recorded in 2022.
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The number of anti-Jew incidents remains at a high level, as the current Rias report shows. The bitter conclusion: anti-Semitism has now arrived on a broad scale in society.
The Anti-Semitism Research and Information Unit (Rias) counted a total of 8725 anti-Semitic incidents for its annual report 2025. 68 percent of the cases were committed out of anti-Israeli activism.
The number of anti-Semitic-motivated incidents in Germany is almost unchanged, according to the annual report of the Federal Association of Anti-Semitism Research and Information Centres (RIAS), which was presented in Berlin.
New figures show that anti-Semitism is part of everyday life for many Jews in Germany. One phenomenon in particular is clearly increasing.
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