Germany: Antisemitic incidents in Berlin hit record levels

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A total of 1,270 antisemitic incidents were documented in Berlin in 2023, according to Germany's Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS).

The figure represents an almost 50% increase on the previous year and a record number of incidents in the capital in a single calendar year since RIAS began its work in 2015.

According to RIAS, over 60% of incidents were recorded between October 7, when the Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel, killing around 1,200 Israelis and taking about 250 more hostages, and the end of 2023, by which time a humanitarian crisis had unfolded in Gaza following Israel's retaliatory operation.

What the RIAS report said about antisemitic incidents in Berlin
A total of 783 antisemitic incidents were recorded in Berlin after October 7, the annual report revealed.

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[Evolve Dammit]

1. Scary times .

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2. K&R

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3. Record since 2015,

but the rock has been turned over and antisemitism is not something people feel they need to hide anymore.

I found this pertinent, though likely to fall on deaf ears:

How criticism of Israel descends into antisemitism

According to the RIAS report, a key pattern of antisemitic abuse is the way in which Jewish people are considered responsible and accountable for the politics of the State of Israel – and not just in Germany.

In the context of the recent pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses across the United States, Robert Williams, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, told DW: "There are always valid reasons to protest the actions of any government. But more often than not, as of late, we've seen protests directed at the State of Israel devolve into antisemitic rhetoric and the use of antisemitic images."

"If you are blaming the entire Jewish diaspora, Jews around the world, for the actions of the Israeli government, that is a form of antisemitism," he explained.

"If you are using images that show Jews as somehow particularly murderous, that's playing on medieval anti-Jewish stereotypes that have been with us for almost a century, and that is a form of antisemitism.

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4. Russia, Russia, Russia. Sowing dissent all across Europe AND here in the US.