Antisemitism reached record levels in modern Germany in 2025, report shows
Antisemitic incidents in Germany remained at record levels in 2025, with a new report documenting 8,725 cases nationwide, or an average of 24 incidents per day, the Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) said in its annual report yesterday.
The number was slightly up from 2024’s 8,627 incidents, and nearly double the figure reported in 2023, RIAS said. In 2020, for comparison, 1,957 incidents were recorded. It was the highest total since RIAS began tracking such incidents in 2018.
Antisemitism has remained consistently high since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Israel-related antisemitism accounted for 68% of all documented incidents, RIAS said.
The report recorded 178 assaults, 257 threats, and four cases of extreme violence, including a terrorist attack at Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Many incidents occurred in everyday settings, with victims targeted and blamed for Israeli government actions, RIAS said. In Kehl, four members of the Jewish community were insulted and spat on outside a Jewish prayer room, and in Hesse, a rabbi was shoved in a supermarket in front of his children and had his phone snatched from him.
RIAS also reported a sharp rise in online abuse. More than a quarter of all incidents occurred on the internet, while 43% of documented threats, including death threats, were made online.
Right-wing extremist antisemitic incidents reached a record high of 807 cases, according to the report. These included Holocaust glorification, conspiracy theories, and calls for anti-Jewish violence.
“The RIAS annual report shows that antisemitism in Germany continues to rise without any sign of slowing down,” said Klein, Federal government commissioner for Jewish life in Germany and the fight against antisemitism. “Antisemitism threatens not only Jews; it threatens our democracy, our freedom, and the moral core of our republic.”