A Hamas supporter is arrested by German police in Berlin. Photo: Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch

German authorities are expecting a “wave” of antisemitic violence as the global spillover triggered by last Saturday’s invasion of southern Israel by Hamas terrorists continues to impact Jewish communities around the world.

An internal report commissioned by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) forecast that protests in solidarity with the Palestinians are expected in several locations, including Jewish communal buildings and US military bases in the country, according to reports on Friday in several local news outlets.

As a result, protection around Jewish institutions has been boosted, Holger Münch, the BKA’s president, confirmed. Separately, the federal Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, consulted on Friday with state-level interior ministers over plans to bolster security at Jewish institutions.

The situation in Germany’s schools is a particular headache for German officials. On Monday, a fight broke out at a school in Berlin’s heavily Muslim Neukölln neighborhood after a 61-year-old teacher attempted to confiscate a Palestinian flag wielded by a 15-year-old student. Eyewitnesses said that the student head butted the teacher and kicked him in the stomach. No arrests were reported.

“I am very concerned that the further Israel’s response to this terrorist attack progresses, the mood in schools will clearly turn against Israel,” Felix Klein — the leading federal official tasked with combating antisemitism — told the dpa news agency on Friday. “There is already shocking news from schools where students are wrapping Palestinian flags around themselves and who want to bring this conflict into the schools.”

Klein then warned Hamas supporters that the “German security authorities are keeping a close eye on you.”

Ferda Ataman, the federal government’s anti-discrimination commissioner, admitted in a separate interview that German laws were not robust enough when it came to antisemitism in schools. “It’s unbelievable: antisemitic bullying and discrimination is still not banned in German classrooms. An exception is Berlin, where there is a state anti-discrimination law,” she said.

The head of the labor union representing German teachers also expressed concern. “The situation is becoming increasingly tense regionally. This is particularly true for schools where many students with roots in the Arab region are taught,” Stefan Düll told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung news outlet.

A national survey released in July by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation revealed that Muslims in Germany were three or four more times likelier to embrace antisemitic ideology than the wider population.

More than one quarter of Muslim respondents said they believed that “wealthy Jews are the real rulers of the world,” far higher than the national average.