Results of two nationwide online surveys of representative samples of young people aged 16 to 21 living in Germany on the prevalence of anti-Semitic attitudes are presented. The findings show significant increases of traditional anti-Semitic prejudices in 2024 compared to the first survey in 2022.

Within the population of young people, there are considerable differences in the extent of anti-Semitic attitudes for social subgroups that are also relevant for the prevention of anti-Semitism. Young people with a migration background are significantly more likely to hold both classic anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attitudes. The rates of these two forms of antisemitism are particularly high among young Muslims. However, the increases in antisemitism between 2022 and 2024 are not limited to the group of young Muslims, but can be found in all subgroups of young people in Germany.

Results of multivariate regression analyses show that the high prevalence of traditional anti-Semitic resentment among young Muslims cannot be explained by their increased experiences of discrimination or their increased perceptions of collective marginalization in German society, neither in 2022 nor in 2024.

Important predictors are, in addition to a low level of education, the degree of inclination to believe in conspiracies and a rigid, fundamentalist view of religion. A high level of individual religiosity and individual faith, on the other hand, are show no significant effects. Furthermore anti-Israel attitudes are significantly more pronounced than classic anti-Semitic prejudices. However, the relevant influencing factors in this regard are different than in the case of traditional anti-Semitic prejudices.