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Rights and Accountability 15 February 2021
Germany’s far right is responsible for an upsurge in anti-Semitic incidents, and attacks on Muslims and people with immigrant backgrounds.
ZUMA Wire/TNS
Police recorded a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in Germany last year.
But contrary to Israel lobby efforts to blame Muslims, leftists and the Palestine solidarity movement, the phenomenon stems almost exclusively from the right.
In 2020, German police logged 2,275 reports of anti-Semitic incidents, more than any year since 2001, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported last week. This included 55 violent crimes.
The numbers for 2020 represent an 11 percent increase from the previous year.
Yet while police were able to identify almost 1,400 suspects, there were only five arrests.
The figures were provided by the federal government in response to a parliamentary question from Petra Pau, a left-wing lawmaker.
More than 1,300 of the reports have been classified according to the suspected political motivation of the incident.
The picture provided by the statistics is stark: 1,247 were categorized as right wing: 9 as left wing; 18 as “foreign ideology” and 20 as religiously motivated. Another 39 incidents could not be classified.
Based on these figures, 94 percent of the anti-Semitic incidents had a right-wing political motivation.
These figures come atop growing concerns over neo-Nazi infiltration of Germany’s police forces and military.
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