The police recorded a markedly higher number of antisemitic crimes in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period last year.
According to a response from the Federal Government to a parliamentary question from the Left Party, 899 antisemitic offences were registered between April and June 2025. In the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the police reported 715 such incidents.
For this comparison, cases not yet supplemented by subsequent reports were taken into account. It is often only after some delay that an act is identified as having a specific ideological background.
Police data indicate that 451 of the antisemitic crimes recorded in the second quarter of 2025 were motivated by right-wing extremism, while 322 were categorised as “foreign ideology”. In total, 15 people sustained minor injuries as a result of antisemitic offences during this period.
