Overview
- The Rias annual report released Wednesday, August 26, 2026, recorded 418 antisemitic incidents in Thuringia during 2025, up from 392 the year before.
- Most cases were insulting or hurtful behaviour, with Rias counting 350 such incidents, plus 45 targeted acts of damage, ten threats, nine mass mailings and four physical attacks.
- Israel-related antisemitism rose sharply to 244 reported incidents from 197 previously, and the report identifies Jena as a local centre of anti‑Israel activism.
- Rias found 103 incidents with a right-wing extremist background and says 71 percent of politically classifiable post‑Shoah antisemitism had a right‑wing link.
- Rias and the state’s Jewish life commissioner warn the rise harms daily life and campus safety, and they are urging legal tightening, better protection and stepped-up prevention work.