National Report Confirms Rise in German Antisemitism

‘Hostility from All Directions’: The Algemeiner article discusses the new RIAS report on antisemitism in Germany:

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/28/hostility-from-all-directions-national-report-confirms-rise-in-german-antisemitism-fueled-by-pandemic

“Danger to Jews comes from many sides: conspiracist milieu during the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Israel activists during escalations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, plus the constant threat from right-wing extremism,” said Benjamin Steinitz, executive director of RIAS. “Antisemitism is still multifaceted in Germany, and open expression of this hate is increasingly normalized. No matter in what form it must be resolutely ostracized and rejected.”

“The massive mobilization of antisemitism from different social and political milieus poses an increasing danger. Therein lies the dangerous dynamic of antisemitism. As the report shows, growing antisemitism from the right-wing extremist milieu was joined by antisemitic conspiracist mobilization in the context of the pandemic,” said Kim Robin Stoller, director of the International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA). “This year, the numerous antisemitic incidents in the context of the war by the terrorist organization Hamas show the antisemitic mobilization ability of Arab, Turkish and Palestinian nationalist and Islamist forces.”