Antisemitism Watch

Antisemitism in Germany

137 media-documented antisemitic events in Germany (2019–present): interactive map, yearly trends, official statistics and cited sources.

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137
Media-documented events
15
In the last 12 months
19
Cities affected
15
Violent incidents
1
Killed (as reported)
4
Injured (as reported)
Year

Locations are approximate (city level).Incidents shown: 0

Official count vs media coverage

Official statistics measure incidents; this archive measures how many events reached media and open databases. The gap shows how much stays under-covered.

Official annual figures

Germany

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Several bodies count this country — a community monitor, the police, EU-wide reporting. They measure different things on different definitions; the bars share a scale but are not rival estimates of one number.

Antisemitic attitudes

How widespread antisemitic beliefs are in the wider population, from ADL's Global 100 opinion survey. This is not a count of incidents and cannot be compared with one — a country can hold few recorded incidents and widespread prejudice, or the reverse.

9%
of adults hold antisemitic attitudes (2024 survey)
change since 2014
-18 pts
worldwide
46%
27%
2014
16%
2015
11%
2017
15%
2019
12%
2023
9%
2024

Share of adults agreeing with a majority of 11 tested antisemitic stereotypes. Survey waves are years apart and country panels change between them. ADL Global 100: An Index of Antisemitism

Media coverage by year

By category

Most affected cities

  • Berlin18
  • Munich5
  • Oldenburg2
  • Chemnitz2
  • Bautzen1
  • Zeitz1
  • Potsdam1
  • Erfurt1

Media-documented events

  1. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A Holocaust memorial stumbling stone was removed from a pavement by unknown individuals at night. Police investigated the incident as a possible hate crime.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  2. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Several people were physically assaulted and subjected to anti-Roma and anti-Semitic insults by a group of men on bikes.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  3. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Jewish worshippers at a synagogue were threatened by a person armed with an automatic weapon who attempted to enter the building during a Shabbat service. The perpetrator, who had links to hate groups, was stopped by a security guard and neutralized by police officers.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  4. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A jointly owned Israeli-Palestinian restaurant was vandalized after holding a Jewish-Muslim brunch.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  5. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Memorial stones were knocked off tombstones in a Jewish cemetery by a woman who subjected a tour group to racial insults.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  6. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A German Israeli Society exhibition was vandalized with anti-Semitic symbols including a swastika and a slogan related to the conflict in the Middle East.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  7. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A synagogue was attacked with a Molotov cocktail, damaging the door.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  8. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Two 13-year-old girls wearing hijabs - one from Libya and one from Russia - were threatened with violence and subjected to anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and misogynist insults by two women in a park.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  9. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A university was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  10. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A fence bearing a Star of David in a Jewish cemetery was damaged.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  11. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Anti-Semitic symbols were drawn outside a school.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  12. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A memorial plaque to Jewish history was vandalized.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  13. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A synagogue was vandalized with graffiti.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  14. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A man was physically assaulted and subjected to anti-Semitic insults in front of a synagogue.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  15. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Several men were physically assaulted by persons shouting anti-Semitic slogans.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  16. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Five men were physically assaulted by persons shouting anti-Semitic slogans. Two of the victims were injured.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  17. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A visibly Jewish man wearing a Star of David necklace was subjected to harassing behaviour and anti-Semitic insults on the street.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  18. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    The fence of a Jewish cemetery was vandalized with swastika graffiti.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  19. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A Jewish memorial column was vandalized with paint.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  20. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A Canadian rabbi was subjected to harassing behaviour by a person who performed a Nazi salute while shouting anti-Semitic remarks at the airport.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  21. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A hallway of a residential building was vandalized with anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim graffiti.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  22. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A Jewish student was severely beaten during an argument about the conflict in the Middle East.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  23. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A 72-year-old Jewish man was hit in the face and subjected to anti-Semitic insults by a woman.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  24. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    The wall of a house owned by a family of Turkish descent was vandalized with anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic graffiti.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  25. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A man and woman speaking Hebrew were physically assaulted by two Arabic-speaking men in a fast food restaurant.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  26. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A Jewish woman was pushed by two women after they noticed the Hebrew script and Israeli flag on her phone in a shopping centre.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  27. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    An 18-year-old Syrian woman was kicked and harassed by a man uttering racist and anti-Semitic insults at a tram stop. Two Syrian and Egyptian young persons were also targeted and one was kicked by the same perpetrator.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  28. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A government official was physically assaulted by three neo-Nazis who disrupted an event commemorating Kristallnacht.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  29. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Several participants were spat at by a group during rally in solidarity with Israel.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  30. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A man was hit while being subjected to anti-Semitic comments by another man at a Holocaust memorial.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  31. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A man was subjected to anti-Semitic threats and insults on the street.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  32. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Members of the Jewish community were targeted in a bomb threat on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  33. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Participants of an event to commemorate Kristallnacht had eggs thrown at them on the anniversary of the anti-Semitic pogrom.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  34. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A man visibly identifiable as Jewish and speaking Hebrew was pushed and subjected to insults by a passerby due to his Jewish identity.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  35. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Participants in an event commemorating Kristallnacht were physically assaulted by members of an organized hate group due to their perceived Jewish identity. Prior to the incident, a member of the group had spat on a memorial to the pogroms.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  36. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Several activists at an anti-fascist youth association were pelted with beer bottles and stones while being subjected to anti-Semitic insults by members of an organized hate group. The perpetrators also made an anti-Semitic gesture.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  37. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A person was physically assaulted while laying a Stolpersteine stone to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  38. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A group of Israeli athletes were threatened by a security guard who performed an anti-Semitic gesture near a memorial to the 1972 Olympic attack, during which Israeli athletes were murdered.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  39. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A person associated with the Jewish community was threatened and subjected to anti-Semitic insults by members of a conspiracy group.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  40. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A couple, including a Jewish man wearing a kippah, was threatened with violence while travelling in a car by three men uttering anti-Semitic insults. The perpetrators followed the victims to a car park and hit and spat on their car.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  41. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A family was threatened when they received a letter containing racist, anti-Ukrainian and anti-Semitic threats and insults. The incident occurred after the victims housed a Ukrainian family and hung a Ukrainian flag on their house.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  42. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    The security staff of a synagogue were threatened with violence by two men due to their perceived Jewish identity.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  43. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    An Israeli woman was punched in the face by a man in the street.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  44. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A male Jewish landlord was threatened and subjected to anti-Semitic insults by a female tenant.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  45. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A person was threatened when a burning pizza box was left on their doorstep alongside an anti-Semitic message due to their perceived Jewish identity.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  46. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A person visibly identifiable as Jewish was threatened by two men shouting anti-Semitic insults.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  47. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A female student at a Jewish school was threatened by a perpetrator shouting anti-Semitic slogans at a bus stop near the school.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  48. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A Jewish woman was threatened and subjected to anti-Semitic and gender-based insults by her male neighbour.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  49. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A Jewish man was threatened when harassed by his neighbour who addressed him with Nazi slogans due to his Jewish identity.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  50. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Stolpersteine stones commemorating victims of the Holocaust were stolen and discarded in a bush.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  51. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    A man was ordered to shout anti-Israel slogans and, upon refusing, was beaten and kicked unconscious by three perpetrators. The victim sustained severe head injuries. Similar incidents occurred at the time in relation to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
  52. GermanyAuto-collected from news

    Jewish worshippers at a synagogue were threatened in an attempted bomb attack by members of a hate group on the eve of Yom Kippur.

    Source: OSCE ODIHR
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