Overview
- ZeBA disclosed on Friday, May 22, 2026, that 85 antisemitic incidents were documented at North Rhine-Westphalia universities in the past year, a 7.6 percent increase from 2024.
- The report identifies a regional hotspot in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold, where cases rose from four in 2024 to 19 in 2025, with multiple incidents reported at the University of Bielefeld.
- RIAS has reported sharper percentage jumps — saying attacks rose about 78 percent and threats about 50 percent in 2025 compared with the year before — and plans to publish full numbers in early June.
- Incidents range from insults and Hamas slogans on walls to threats and explicit terror glorification, including graffiti that called for killing Jews and images of violence.
- The surge has left many Jewish students frightened and considering leaving smaller campuses, and it prompted NRW to set up the ZeBA in summer 2024, coordinate with RIAS, and keep reporting channels such as report-antisemitism.de open while officials pledge stepped-up support.