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A group tracking antisemitism in Germany said Tuesday that it documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

The RIAS group said it recorded 994 incidents, which is an average of 29 incidents per day and an increase of 320% compared to the same time period in 2022. The group looked at the time period from Oct. 7 to Nov. 9.

Among the 994 antisemitic incidents, there were three cases of extreme violence, 29 attacks, targeted damage to 72 properties, 32 threats, four mass mailings and 854 cases of offensive behavior.

Many Jews in Germany experienced antisemitic incidents in their everyday lives and even those who weren’t exposed to any antisemitic incidents reported feelings of insecurity and fear, said RIAS, which is an abbreviation in German for the Department for Research and Information on Antisemitism.

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[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure how important it is that every one of these 854 incidents be slurs versus miscounted anti-Zionist remarks, violent attacks and assaults on Jews minding their own business in grocery stores is alarming and deplorable. Jews in Germany aren't, like, participating in Israeli politics. The IDF doesn't poll Jews across the globe asking who they should shoot. Jews shouldn't be concerned about hiding their Judaism to avoid being the target of hate.

[-] blazera@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

The number of incidents is the whole thing being discussed, a notable rise in antisemitic incidents. Jews shouldnt face any hate crimes, but neither should any group that also regularly faces them.

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

So you basically don't want the news or anyone to talk about it because it's a non-issue?

[-] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago
[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

You are talking about how every group can be discriminated against and how you aren't even sure if it really is antisemitism and how anti-semitism is often just misunderstood totally valid Israeli criticism.

Hmmm.... Sounds to me like you don't want to see the issue here.

[-] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

no, valid israeli criticism is misunderstood to be anti-semitism

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