The number of anti-Semitic crimes has risen again (symbol image) Photo: picture alliance / dpa
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1,052 anti-Semitic incidents were registered by an information center in Berlin last year.
22 attacks, 28 threats, 43 damage to property, 895 cases of “injurious behavior” and 62 anti-Semitic mass letters were recorded, as the Berlin Research and Information Center for Anti-Semitism (RIAS) announced on Tuesday.
For the first time, two cases of “extreme violence” have become known, said Rias managing director Benjamin Steinitz. These are physical attacks that could result in serious injury or death.
More than half of the cases recorded happened on the Internet, for example in social media or by e-mail.
According to the information, 181 anti-Semitic incidents explicitly pointed to the flare-up of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in spring 2021 – around 80 percent of them in May alone (145), when there were many anti-Israeli demonstrations by Palestinian groups. According to the information, more than 250 incidents were related to the corona pandemic.
In 2020, 1019 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in Berlin, in 2019 there were 886.
