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A group tracking antisemitism in Germany said Tuesday that it documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

The RIAS group said it recorded 994 incidents, which is an average of 29 incidents per day and an increase of 320% compared to the same time period in 2022. The group looked at the time period from Oct. 7 to Nov. 9.

Among the 994 antisemitic incidents, there were three cases of extreme violence, 29 attacks, targeted damage to 72 properties, 32 threats, four mass mailings and 854 cases of offensive behavior.

Many Jews in Germany experienced antisemitic incidents in their everyday lives and even those who weren’t exposed to any antisemitic incidents reported feelings of insecurity and fear, said RIAS, which is an abbreviation in German for the Department for Research and Information on Antisemitism.

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[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was Rabin the one assassinated by a Zionist who was so close to making a good treaty? If so, we need more of those.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By a religious Zionist, yes. And guess who back then variously called for, didn't push back against calls for, etc, his assassination: The current prime minister as well as the minister of national security.

As to more of those: You know the type of Jews living close to the west bank going in helping Palestinians with the olive harvest so that they're less likely to get shot at by settlers (because hurting Israelis would get them in trouble)? Many of those types also lived near the Gaza border, helping as they can, it's a region full of old hippie kibbutzim. And then Hamas came. Which gives yet another spin on why the Israeli government isn't terribly worried about the hostages: Most of them are leftists.

Generally speaking the average Israeli is left of centre, in its core it's a socdem country. After the failure of the Oslo accords a lot, a lot a lot of them bought the right-wing promise for safety, the "antagonise until they give up" path, but otherwise stayed centre left. As I think the Haaretz put it: "Yigal Amir [the assassin] has won". But then with the right wing now having proved that they can't provide safety their days in government are absolutely numbered, Netanyahu is not popular in Israel right now. They won't go for naive hippie kumba-ya, either, but a Realpolitik "keep the checkpoints, get rid of the settlements, stop antagonising and put the fucking Kahanites in padded cells" policy is currently definitely a vote-winner.