Police recorded 192 antisemitic incidents in 2014, only 2 less than
last year.
Most of the incidents occurred in MITTE (55) and only 3 in Steglitz-Zehlendorf. In
all cases the attackers knew that the victims were Jews.
BILD newspaper published this shameful list as a response to inquiry
submitted by Clara Herman (29) from the Green Party in the Senate.
The following is the list of incidents committed in relation to the
hatred of Jews:
January 3: a beer bottle was thrown at a Jew in Lichtenberg.
January 26: Vandals slashed four tires of a vehicle In Oberschöneweide. The owner of the vehicle was Jewish.
15 February: swastikas were spray painted on the four pillars of the Marx-Engels statue. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a Jew.
March 13: The guard of the Jewish Hospital was threatened.
April 11: Unknown persons brutally beat a cosmetics store owner in the shopping center ALEXA.
May 2: In Friedenau, vandals sprayed swastikas on apartment door of a woman that works for the “stumbling blocks”.
June 16: 20 fans shouted antisemitic slogans at the end of the World Cup games in which the German footballers played.
July 17: expressions of hatred and death threats against pro-Israel demonstrators during an anti-Israel demonstration.
September 2: Vandals carved a swastika on the hood of a car. The owner of the vehicle was Jewish.
October 23: cyber-attack against the Israeli -German Internet newspaper Onlinemagazins www.haolam.de in WEDDING.
December 21: Vandals destroyed Hanukkah candelabrum that was placed in Ernst-Reuter Square for the holiday.
The police succeeded to solve 63 cases (33%) compared to 24% last year.
