Overview
- On Friday Stefan Hensel, who resigned as Hamburg’s antisemitism commissioner in autumn 2025, announced he will advise the CDU free of charge for four months to help write an anti‑antisemitism action plan.
- Hensel and CDU leader Dennis Thering say the rot‑green Senate has failed to put agreed measures into practice and that the commissioner post has remained vacant for months.
- The CDU’s plan, titled “Hamburg – eine Stadt für alle: Gemeinsam gegen Antisemitismus und Diskriminierung,” will propose clear rules for public spaces, stronger protection for Jewish institutions, more prevention in schools, and firmer law‑enforcement measures.
- Reporters and the CDU cite recent local incidents such as an ‘Israel‑Hasser‑Camp’ on the Moorweide and the burning of an Israeli flag on the Rathausmarkt together with national data—6,236 antisemitic crimes in 2024—and a Hamburg Dunkelfeld study that shows many cases go unreported.
- The development is an opposition‑led effort to set the policy agenda rather than an enacted change, and its impact will depend on whether the Senate responds to the CDU proposals and Hensel’s short, unpaid advisory role.