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Germany: Antisemitic incidents in Berlin hit record levels
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https://www.dw.com/en/germany-antisemitic-incidents-in-berlin-hit-record-levels/a-69148602
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RIAS has been recording an average of about 10 antisemitic incidents a day in Berlin since the start of the current war.
One of the most serious incidents was an arson attack on a synagogue in central Berlin’s Mitte district on the night of October 17-18, while another case details how a man threw a firework at two people who were speaking Hebrew in a bar.
Although the figures in the RIAS report are restricted to 2023, statistics from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office released at the start of May 2024 reveal that the trend has continued, with a total of 793 antisemitic offenses, including 14 acts of violence committed across Germany between January and March 2024 alone.
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.
“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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