A survey done for ARD public broadcasting by the pollster
Intratest dimap Friday showed 59% of voting-age Germans believe that
antisemitism is spreading in their communities.
Compared to 40% in a sampling last year that's a jump of 19
percentage points.
The representative poll conducted by Infratest surveyed
1,062 voters between Monday and Wednesday, a week after a far-right attack on
a synagogue in Germany's eastern city of Halle.
Another 35% responded that they saw no increase in antisemitism
across Germany. Last year, 51% believed this was the case.
Rising antisemitism was seen by two-thirds or more of supporters
of Germany's long-serving parliamentary parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel's
conservatives, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the
former-communist Left.
Among adherents of the far-right Alternative for Germany
(AfD) formed in 2013 views were split. A rise in antisemitism was seen by 47%
but not by another 48%.
