In 2021, 61 antisemitic crimes were counted; That was 15 more than in 2020, according to the report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution published in Mainz on Monday. Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD) said that “in parts of the Society increases burgeoning antisemitism” worries him.
The security policy challenges have increased significantly in the past year due to extremism and state-controlled actors. Lewentz spoke of “rapid radicalization processes” to terrorism and an increasing shift of the extremist spectrum to the Internet.
“We are concerned about the growing antisemitism in parts of society,” said Lewentz. This was shown in 2021, among other things, in corona protests and demonstrations in the course of the Israel-Palestine conflict that flared up again. In Rhineland-Palatinate, 61 anti-Semitic crimes were counted last year, after 46 the year before. 50 of them alone had a right-wing extremist background. It is therefore right that the Rhineland-Palatinate Office for the Protection of the Constitution, with its documentation and coordination center set up in 2021, is taking anti-Semitism even more into account.
