Berlin shopkeeper attacked after displaying posters against antisemitism for Oct. 7 anniversary

According to the report, one in three Jewish students knows Jewish classmates who have been physically threatened or attacked, including in anti-Israel-related incidents.

“As a Church, we stand firmly with our Jewish fellow citizens. Antisemitism and hatred towards Jews, in all their forms, have no place in our society,” Bishop Heiner Wilmer, President of the German Bishops’ Conference, said in Bonn.

In a guest article published on the third anniversary of the attacks, Schuster argued that antisemitic hatred increasingly presents itself as criticism of Israel or opposition to Zionism, creating challenges that Germany’s existing criminal law is not adequately equipped to address.

He noted that in some parts of Berlin, Jewish people could no longer feel safe travelling on public transport or walking in public while wearing a kippah.

According to the German Jewish newspaper Jüdische Allgemeine, some of the calls for participation contain slogans that appear to glorify or support terrorism.

Between 2019 and 2025, RIAS recorded 564 antisemitic incidents with an Islamic or Islamist background. Almost 80 per cent of the 564 incidents were recorded after 7 October 2023.

Zentralrat President Dr Josef Schuster expressed deep concern over what he described as repeated antisemitic transgressions during Die Linke’s election campaign.

The suspect allegedly threw several bags containing flammable liquid at a side entrance of the Bergische Synagoge and set them alight before fleeing the scene.

The plot allegedly became concrete by July 2025 and was intended to take place on the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

Two men approached the woman and confronted her over the Star of David she was wearing before directing antisemitic insults at her.

The reopening offers both a moment of celebration and a renewed commitment to ensuring that Jewish life in Saxony can remain secure, visible and vibrant for generations to come.

He warned against the AfD participating in the government of Saxony-Anhalt. “The damage that the so-called Alternative for Germany would cause if it came to power would be immense.”