More anti-Semitic protests in Germany after Hamas attack
Since the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, led by the Palestinian militant organization Hamas and the Israeli military offensive which followed in the Gaza Strip, many Jews in Germany have experienced anti -Semitism.
The Federal Association of Research and Information Centers on Anti -Semitism (RIA) also receives an increase in demonstrations with anti -Semitic content, according to a report published Monday.
“Disturbing normality”
“Calls on the destruction of Israel, the approval of violence against the Jewish people, to an open support for the terror of Hamas and the trivialization of the Shoah [Holocaust] – All of this has become a disturbing normality two years after October 7, “said Benjamin Steinitz, Managing Director of Rias.
RIAS documents “anti-Semitic incidents above and below the threshold of criminal responsibility from the point of view of affected people”, writes the association in its newly published report.
In addition to the reports of people affected or witnesses, sources such as media reports or, in some cases, crime statistics are also recorded. According to the RIA, documented anti -Semitic incidents are not a representative sample.
RIAS sees the increase in anti -Semitism linked to Israel
For the new report, the RIAs evaluated 2,225 gatherings from October 7, 2023 at the end of 2024, during which anti -Semitic content was documented.
With October 7, the number of gatherings with anti -Semitic content would have increased from almost a day to five per day.
Anti -Semitism linked to Israel has been documented much more frequently than before, namely 89% of gatherings, often in connection with other forms of hostility towards the Jewish people.
On October 7, 2023, supporters of Hamas and other Palestinian extremists carried out massacres in Israel, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 others were removed in hostage to the Gaza Strip.
Israel responded with a military offensive. Since the start of the war, more than 67,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed, according to the health authority controlled by Hamas.
