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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Smeared swastikas, anti-Semitic posts in internet chats or derogatory comments about the corona vaccination campaign - in the second year of its offer, the number of anti-Semitic incidents reported on the official online platform has increased significantly.
According to the country's anti-Semitism commissioner, Michael Blume, with 224 reports in the first quarter, the figure for the entire previous year (228) was almost reached.
"Most of these are incidents from the Internet," said Blume on Thursday.
The increase is due on the one hand to the increased awareness of the reporting office, but also to the digital radicalization on the other.
The online platform, which is located at the Democracy Center Baden-Württemberg, is intended to support those affected and to record and classify anti-Semitic incidents in the state. Since November 2019, incidents can be reported there in a specially designated anti-Semitism category - previously, a more general distinction was made between online hate comments and "anti-democratic incidents". Legally trained employees check the reports for criminal relevance and report them if necessary.
During the corona pandemic, conspiracy myths in particular gained enormous popularity, warned Blume;
almost all of them have an anti-Semitic background and would be fueled by being forwarded on the Internet.
"Conspiracy myths in the context of the corona pandemic often contain anti-Semitic narratives," says the security report of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior.
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Link to the reporting platform