Berlin said to see record 2,267 antisemitic crimes in 2025, up from 381 three years earlier

Police in Berlin tallied a record 2,267 antisemitic crimes in 2025, a sharp increase from 1,825 cases recorded in 2024 and 900 in 2023, according to German daily Tagesspiegel.

The data was released by the city’s Senate Department for the Interior in response to an inquiry by Social Democratic lawmaker Sebastian Schlüsselburg.

Antisemitic activity in Germany and around the world skyrocketed, according to reports, after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which launched the war in Gaza. In 2022, Berlin police logged just 381 antisemitic offenses, according to the report.

Antisemitic offenses categorized as motivated by foreign ideology, which the report says mostly concern the conflict in the Middle East, rose to 1,484, up from 24 in 2022. Crimes motivated by religious ideology climbed to 348, compared to six in 2022.

Antisemitic crimes associated with right-wing extremism have remained relatively stable over the past five years, at around 300 cases annually, the report says.

“The current figures on antisemitic crimes in Berlin are shameful,” Schlüsselburg tells Tagesspiegel. “Especially here, in the city where the crime against humanity known as the Shoah was planned and ordered, we bear a special historical responsibility to protect Jewish life.”