Graffiti reading “Kill All Jews” was discovered on a residential building in Berlin-Pankow on April 26, 2026, part of a wave of antisemitic vandalism reported across the German capital over the past week, including swastikas and other hate-filled slogans scrawled on multiple sites. Photo: Screenshot

Germany continues to experience persistently high levels of antisemitism, with newly released figures showing record highs in the past year, pointing to an increasingly hostile climate for Jews and Israelis marked by sustained harassment, violence, and intimidation.

On Wednesday, Germany’s Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) published its latest annual report documenting 8,725 antisemitic incidents recorded nationwide in 2025, marking a slight increase from the previous year and setting a new record.

While last year’s total reflects only a modest rise of 98 incidents compared with 2024, this latest figure represents a roughly 248 percent surge from 2022, before the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when 2,480 incidents were documented.

With an average of roughly 24 incidents per day, the report recorded 178 physical assaults and 257 threats, alongside widespread harassment, property damage, and intimidation targeting Jewish individuals and institutions.

According to RIAS’s latest data, “Israel-related antisemitism” accounted for 68 percent of all incidents, with the report documenting four cases of “extreme violence,” including a terrorist attack at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.

The report also warns that hostility spreading via social media is “alarming,” noting that online incidents increased from 1,996 in 2024 to 2,314 in 2025.

More than 40 percent of all reported overt threats occurred online, with many victims stating that the incidents had lasting impacts on their daily lives.

Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, condemned the normalization of antisemitism in German society, warning against what he described as a growing acceptance of such rhetoric and behavior.

“These are not statistical outliers, but rather the grim reality in Germany. The 2025 annual report from RIAS clearly shows that we are witnessing antisemitism solidify at record levels rather than easing,” Schuster said in a statement.

Officials even warn that the real number of antisemitic crimes is likely much higher, as many incidents go unreported or are never formally classified.

Felix Klein, the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism, also condemned the findings, warning of a continued rise in antisemitic hostility in German society and calling for stronger efforts to confront it.

“The RIAS annual report shows that antisemitism appears to be on the rise in Germany without any sign of slowing down,” Klein said. “Antisemitism does not just target Jewish people. It endangers our democracy, our freedom, and the moral foundation of our country.”

In one of the latest antisemitic incidents in the country, a synagogue in Cottbus, a city in eastern Germany, was defaced last month with a swastika painted on its facade, marking the second time in just four days that the Jewish house of worship had been vandalized.

Separately, authorities also discovered antisemitic graffiti across several apartment buildings in Berlin-Pankow, including messages reading “Kill all Jews,” a swastika, and the statement “Only a dead Jew is a good Jew.”