Although Berlin does not look like it did in 1933, for many Jews it feels uncomfortably close.
After October 7, antisemitism in Germany did not merely spike – it erupted. Jewish homes were marked. Israeli flags were torn down. Demonstrations celebrated the massacre under the language of “resistance,” while university campuses normalized slogans that erase the world’s only Jewish state.
Yet much of the political and NGO landscape clung to a narrow explanation: antisemitism, we were told, is primarily a far-right problem.
That assessment is no longer sufficient. Traditional far-right antisemitism does remain a serious and persistent threat – but it is no longer the only one.
Today, some of the most dynamic and socially tolerated forms of antisemitism emerge from Islamist ideology and segments of the radicalized far Left – rhetorically sophisticated, globally networked, and cloaked in the language of anti-colonialism and human rights.
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