Islamist-motivated antisemitic crime in Germany continued to climb in 2025, according to a newly published government response to a parliamentary question that draws on Federal Criminal Police Office data.
Authorities registered 670 antisemitic offenses classified as Islamist over the course of 2025, marking a 6 percent rise compared with the year before.
The figures emerged after Greens lawmaker Lamya Kaddor asked the federal government last month what data it holds on antisemitic incidents in Muslim or Islamist contexts before and after October 7, 2023.
Parliamentary State Secretary Christoph de Vries replied with statistics from the Criminal Police Reporting Service for Politically Motivated Crime, known as KPMD-PMK. The data showed 16 such crimes in 2022 and 33 between January 1, 2023, and October 6, 2023. In the roughly three months after October 7, 2023, the number jumped to 331 incidents. That figure nearly doubled to 631 in 2024 and has now reached 670 in 2025.
The outlet WELT AM SONNTAG obtained the Federal Criminal Police Office breakdown of the incidents. It reported that almost half involved the use of symbols of banned organizations, including Hezbollah and the so-called Islamic State. Police also logged numerous cases of antisemitic graffiti, insults, and threats. The most serious incident was an attempted homicide: a knife attack by a Syrian man on a Spanish tourist at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin in February 2025.
The 670 offenses do not represent the full scale of antisemitic crime in the country. Across all ideological categories, Germany recorded 6,548 antisemitic offenses last year. Of those, 3,163, or 48.3 percent, had an Israel-related connection. Right-wing extremism remained the largest ideological category.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Kaddor said: "Islamist antisemitism must be decisively combated, without placing Muslims under general suspicion." She added: "For this, effective prevention, reliable data, and cooperation with Muslim communities are needed, instead of cuts and generalizations."
Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews, told German media: "Today, Islamist-influenced hatred of Jews is being unleashed quite openly on the streets, at universities, and on the Internet."
In his reply to Kaddor, de Vries said Germany is working to prevent and combat antisemitism, pointing out that this has been a central goal of the German Islam Conference, or DIK, since 2011. The DIK serves as the federal government's main dialogue forum, fostering regular communication between state authorities at the federal, regional, and local levels and Muslims and their representatives.
De Vries said the conference has concentrated on "empowering Muslim organizations and individuals in the fight against antisemitism and strengthening Jewish-Muslim dialogue" through workshops, special events, and conferences. Following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the DIK stepped up its examination of prevention approaches. One project launched under its umbrella, run by the Anne Frank Educational Center, targets online antisemitism linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and promotes new ways of strengthening Jewish-Muslim dialogue.
