Nikolai Schreiter, Research Fellow
Nikolai Schreiter is a political scientist and researcher specialising in contemporary antisemitism, right-wing extremism, antizionism, and Critical Theory. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Passau under the supervision of Professor Lars Rensmann and works as a research associate at the Chair of Political Science and Comparative Government in three projects:
(1) antisemitic conspiracy myths and crisis discourses as pivot points of far-right mobilisation in Bavaria (2024–2027)
(2) “progressive” responses in political and academic milieux to the 7 October 2023 Hamas massacre (2025–2027)
(3) the German far right and 7 October (2025–2026).
His doctoral research examines antisemitism in the contemporary far right, with a particular focus on antisemitic conspiracy narratives, antizionism and the aftermath of the Hamas massacre of 7 October 2023.
Before joining the University of Passau, Schreiter was a founding staff member of the Research and Information Center on Antisemitism (RIAS) Bavaria, where he documented, analysed and researched antisemitic incidents and co-authored the annual reports on antisemitism in Bavaria. Schreiter studied Political Science at the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4536-7838
Publications (selection):
*Peer reviewed
2027 (forthcoming): Not Standing With Israel, but Taking Its Place. Antisemitism, Antizionism and the German Far Right’s Identification with Israel as Aggressor drawing on Anna Freud. In: Edited Volume from Conference Contemporary Antisemitism, London 2025. Routledge.
*2027 (forthcoming): Instrumentalizing Atrocity: The AfD’s Use of the October 7 Hamas Attack in Parliamentary Discourse. In: German Politics and Society.
*2026 (in German, forthcoming): Zwischen Heimat und Hamas. Antisemitismus, Rassismus und islamistische Propaganda bei Compact und AUF1 nach dem 7. Oktober. (Between Homeland and Hamas Antisemitism, Racism, and Islamist Propaganda in the Right-Wing Conspiracist Media AUF1 and Compact Since October 7). In: Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung 6(2).
2025 with Lars Rensmann (in German): Die radikale Rechte in Deutschland nach dem 7. Oktober. Ein Beispiel des politischen Antisemitismus im postfaktischen Zeitalter. (The Radical Right in Germany after October 7: An Example of Political Antisemitism in Postfactual Times). In: Grigat, Stephan/Stögner, Karin (eds): Projektiver Antizionismus. Antisemitismus gegen Israel vor und nach dem 7. Oktober. Baden-Baden: Nomos. pp 153-178. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748965787-153
