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Germany recorded 8,627 antisemitic incidents in 2024 — a 77% increase over 2023 and more than four times the figure from 2019 — with officials attributing the surge to a convergence of Islamist, far-left, and far-right extremism amplified by the Israel-Hamas war. The crisis has prompted mosque closures, organization bans, and a new citizenship antisemitism test, but critics including Human Rights Watch warn that Germany's approach risks conflating legitimate political criticism with hate speech while understating entrenched far-right antisemitism.