Antisemitism in 21st-century Germany: what Wikipedia removed
This article covers the documented rise of antisemitism in Germany today. Through 2020 the opening cited Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, concluding that “antisemitic rhetoric spread by Islamist organizations posed a significant challenge to a peaceful and tolerant society.” Today the word survives four times in the body but is gone from an opening reduced to a single sentence: “Antisemitism is a growing problem in 21st-century Germany.” A reader today learns antisemitism is rising in Germany and does not learn that the German government’s own domestic intelligence agency identified Islamist organizations as a source of antisemitic rhetoric.
The word “refugee” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| refugee | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| islamist | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| antisemitism | 32 | 2 | 3 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- This dropped a sentence contrasting two explanations for German antisemitism, one citing fear of a historic revival and another pointing to Germany’s growing Muslim population, neither of which appears in today’s one-line opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2020 (revision 964872168):
Antisemitism is a growing problem in 21st-century Germany. In 1998, Ignatz Bubis , a leader of the German Jewish community, pointed to a “spreading intellectual nationalism” that made him fear a revival of German antisemitism. Others point to Germany’s growing Muslim population, both the Turkish “guest workers” who began to arrive in the 1950s, and the large wave of migrants from the Muslim countries who arrive during the European migrant crisis that began in 2015. In 2002, the historian Julius Schoeps said that “resolutions by the German parliament to reject antisemitism are drivel of the worst kind” and “all those ineffective actions are presented to the world as a strong defense against t…
2025 (revision 1294881934):
Antisemitic demonstrator in 2014 with Nazi tattoos on arm Antisemitism is a growing problem in 21st-century Germany. ^ Angelos, James (21 May 2019). “The New German Anti-Semitism” . The New York Times Magazine . Retrieved 21 May 2019 . {{ cite news }} : CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ( link ) ^ Pieper, Oliver. In Germany, discrimination is on the rise . DW News . Retrieved on 11 June, 2025
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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