https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed As we approach the two-year anniversary of the attack by Hamas on Israel, Germany's RIAS says there's been a sharp rise in antisemitism. https://www.thelocal.de/20251006/germany-sees-rising-number-of-antisemitism-reports Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:27:12 +0200 germany-sees-rising-number-of-antisemitism-reports German leaders voiced their shame over resurgent anti-Semitism on Friday, one year after a deadly attack targeting Jews in the city of Halle. https://www.thelocal.de/20201010/german-leaders-express-shame-at-rising-antisemitism Sat, 10 Oct 2020 11:42:41 +0200 german-leaders-express-shame-at-rising-antisemitism Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned on Sunday that Jews could leave Germany on a "massive" scale if urgent action was not taken to stem rising anti-Semitism. https://www.thelocal.de/20200126/germany-fears-mass-exit-of-jews-if-hatred-persists Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:41:06 +0100 germany-fears-mass-exit-of-jews-if-hatred-persists Germany's parliament on Friday condemned the BDS movement that demands a boycott of Israel as anti-Semitic, warning that its actions were reminiscent of the Nazis' campaign against Jews. https://www.thelocal.de/20190518/german-parliament-slams-boycott-israel-movement-as-anti-semitic Sat, 18 May 2019 11:19:28 +0200 german-parliament-slams-boycott-israel-movement-as-anti-semitic More than 1000 residents of the western German city of Bonn attended a rally in support of an Israeli professor who fell victim to an anti-Semitic attack. Many demonstrators showed solidarity with the Jewish community by wearing a kippah. https://www.thelocal.de/20180720/bonn-residents-wear-kippah-in-solidarity-with-jewish-attack-victim Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:02:18 +0200 bonn-residents-wear-kippah-in-solidarity-with-jewish-attack-victim German police arrested 10 people on Sunday, July 8, over an alleged anti-Semitic attack in a Berlin park, with local media reporting that both victim and suspects are Syrians. https://www.thelocal.de/20180708/german-police-arrest-10-in-alleged-anti-semitic-attack Sun, 08 Jul 2018 16:03:35 +0200 german-police-arrest-10-in-alleged-anti-semitic-attack The Central Council of Jews in Germany has described bullying allegations at the Friedenauer Gemeinschaftsschule in Berlin as “anti-Semitism of the ugliest form.” https://www.thelocal.de/20170403/outrage-as-muslim-students-bully-jewish-classmate-out-of-school Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:37:08 +0200 outrage-as-muslim-students-bully-jewish-classmate-out-of-school US Vice President Mike Pence paid a somber visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany on Sunday, against the backdrop of concerns about a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States since Donald Trump was elected president. https://www.thelocal.de/20170220/mike-pence-pays-somber-visit-to-nazi-concentration-camp Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:51:55 +0100 mike-pence-pays-somber-visit-to-nazi-concentration-camp The World Jewish Congress on Monday accused the German unit of YouTube of failing to stop neo-Nazis from using the online video channel to distribute thousands of anti-Semitic tracks. https://www.thelocal.de/20160502/world-jewish-congress-slams-youtube-over-neo-nazi-videos Mon, 02 May 2016 19:56:03 +0200 world-jewish-congress-slams-youtube-over-neo-nazi-videos After the president of the Central Council of Jews warned against anti-Semitism in Muslim areas of German cities, his Muslim opposite number agreed that 'these fears are justified”. https://www.thelocal.de/20150227/antisemitism-germany-muslim-council-says-jewish-fears-justified Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:55:38 +0100 antisemitism-germany-muslim-council-says-jewish-fears-justified Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews, said on Thursday that Jewish people should avoid making themselves too visible in “problem neighbourhoods”. https://www.thelocal.de/20150226/germany-antisemitism-islam-jewish-council-warns-of-problem-neighbourhoods Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:39:50 +0100 germany-antisemitism-islam-jewish-council-warns-of-problem-neighbourhoods A Munich court on Wednesday sentenced a previously convicted Holocaust denier and ex-lawyer to a second jail term, after she publicly declared that there had been no organized genocide of the Jews under Adolf Hitler. https://www.thelocal.de/20150225/ex-lawyer-jailed-again-for-holocaust-denial Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:25:07 +0100 ex-lawyer-jailed-again-for-holocaust-denial