Antisemitism in 21st-century Germany
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Antisemitic incidents have been on the rise in contemporary Germany, committed especially by far-right groups. Abuses may be of verbal or physical nature. Since the Halle synagogue shooting in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic, Antisemitism has increasingly entered public discussion. According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Gaza war and genocide have caused increased tensions between Muslims and Jews in Germany and a spike in antisemitic hate crimes or assaults. The election of the far-right AfD into the Bundestag in 2017 has stirred controversy due to some of the party's leaders expressing their wish to "move on" from Germany's Culture of Remembrance (Erinnerungskultur).
Context
In 1998, Ignatz Bubis, a leader of the German Jewish community, pointed to a "spreading intellectual nationalism" that made him fear a revival of German antisemitism. Others point to Germany's growing Muslim population, both the Turkish "guest workers" who arrived in the 1950s to 1970s, and the large wave of migrants from Muslim countries who arrived during the European migrant crisis that began in 2015.
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A 2012 poll showed that 18% of the Turks in Germany think of Jews as inferior human beings. A similar study found that most of Germany's native born Muslim youth and children of immigrants have antisemitic views.
In 2014, antisemitic activities in Germany prompted the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to lead a rally in Berlin against antisemitism in Germany.
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