‘57% of European Jews consider leaving’: Europe’s post-Gaza antisemitism surge
Of course, they won’t all leave. Poorer Jews are more likely to leave because they can’t easily escape the blowback from the Gaza genocide. But wealthy Jews will stay. And nothing is likely to change given the role of Jewish elites throughout the West. And zero attempt to justify Israeli unjustifiable actions.
What has happened in Gaza and Israeli’s aggressive actions throughout the Middle East may turn out to be a turning point of Jewish history. Impossible to see Jews as victims but they are still trying:
His solutions included mandatory visits to Holocaust memorial sites and concentration camps for all Austrian youth, support for antisemitism research in academia to combat campus ignorance and a clear institutional and political recognition of October 7 as the largest pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust. …“It’s essential to remember that European countries’ fight against antisemitism isn’t a favor to Jews or Israel but part of the battle for Europe’s identity and character. The concern over European Jewry’s departure is real and history has shown this would signal Europe’s unraveling.”
Before getting overly optimistic, it’s worth noting that according to the Israelite Community of Vienna (IKG), 1,147 antisemitic incidents were reported in Austria in 2023, 720 of which took place after the October 7 massacre. This marks a 60% increase year-on-year – but Austria’s fight against this horrifying trend is still commendable.
One of the summit’s critical efforts is promoting the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) antisemitism definition. Drafted in Budapest in 2015, it’s a non-legally binding working definition.
‘57% of European Jews consider leaving’: Europe’s worrying antisemitism surge
Combat Antisemitism Movement conference in Vienna brings together local community leaders to warn of growing antisemitic sentiment and come up with solutions as most European Jews consider emigrating
“Most antisemites I know don’t think they’re antisemites. They respond just like we do: they hold conferences and believe they’re defending human rights, thinking they’re actually the greatest opponents of antisemitism,” said David Hirsch, a sociology professor at the University of London’s Goldsmiths College and founder of Engage, a movement combating academic boycotts on Israel.
According to him, “fields like the humanities and arts are becoming hostile toward anyone connected to Israel and most Jews. The solution is to shift the discussion to content and facts because this way it’s pretty clear who’s committing genocide and who’s not. You could say each side presents its own set of facts. It’s very hard to sway the public with comparisons between October 7 and Gaza.”
Pro-Palestinian rally in Madrid, Spain
(Photo: OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)
Hirsch, like other speakers from Europe’s Jewish community, attended this month’s “Action Matters” summit in Vienna.
The event was organized by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), an independent organization operating globally for five years, building connections among mayors and politicians to influence the fight against antisemitism and the European Leadership Network (ELNET), a European organization founded in 2007 to strengthen ties between Israel and Europe.
Typically, such events focus on reporting the rise of antisemitism in Europe. The novelty of this summit was its emphasis on actionable methods to combat this widespread phenomenon that’s breaking records unseen since World War II.
The number of antisemitic incidents has risen by about 400% in some parts of Europe since October 7. “We’re losing the battle,” said Dr. Ariel Muzicant, president of the European Jewish Congress, at the summit’s outset. “57% of European Jews are considering leaving. In a few years, 50% of the communities may no longer exist.”
The event’s significance lies in its target audience. Most summit attendees were non-Jewish members of parliament and city representatives from across Europe who are determined to act against the alarming spread of antisemitism. They came to share their actions and gather new ideas. Among the cities represented were Krakow, Ljubljana, Berlin, Vienna and Malmo.
Prof. David Hirsch
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
In addition to topics discussed with the entire audience, small group discussions addressed curbing antisemitism and boycotts online, in universities and in sports. Yael Arad, chair of Israel’s Olympic Committee, participated in one such discussion sharing her successful handling of the painful issue during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
CAM Director Sacha Roytman Dratwa declared, “We believe in collaborating with a broad spectrum of government officials, mayors, religious and community leaders, diplomats, cultural influencers, educators, artists and business leaders.
“Through this inclusive mobilization of diverse disciplines, we believe we can build a global coalition against antisemitism and achieve strategic, profound and meaningful social change in combating it.”
Why Vienna? CAM Director of European Affairs Oriana Marie Kruger explained: “This is a city doing incredible work against antisemitism and racism. It has a rich Jewish history. We’ve already held summits in Greece and Germany and next year we’ll host one in Paris.”
In Austria, burning the Israeli flag is prohibited and chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is illegal. The event opened with a speech by former president of Austria’s National Council Wolfgang Alexander Sobotka, a well-known fighter against antisemitism.
Oriana Marie Kruger
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
His solutions included mandatory visits to Holocaust memorial sites and concentration camps for all Austrian youth, support for antisemitism research in academia to combat campus ignorance and a clear institutional and political recognition of October 7 as the largest pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust.
Israel’s ambassador to Vienna, David Roet, also stressed Austria’s efforts to combat antisemitism: “The same Austria that welcomed Hitler with cheers is now leading the fight against antisemitism in Europe. The normalization of antisemitism and the situation where Jews are the only minority whose claims of racism are dismissed with scorn cannot continue.
“It’s essential to remember that European countries’ fight against antisemitism isn’t a favor to Jews or Israel but part of the battle for Europe’s identity and character. The concern over European Jewry’s departure is real and history has shown this would signal Europe’s unraveling.”
Before getting overly optimistic, it’s worth noting that according to the Israelite Community of Vienna (IKG), 1,147 antisemitic incidents were reported in Austria in 2023, 720 of which took place after the October 7 massacre. This marks a 60% increase year-on-year – but Austria’s fight against this horrifying trend is still commendable.
One of the summit’s critical efforts is promoting the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) antisemitism definition. Drafted in Budapest in 2015, it’s a non-legally binding working definition.
Wolfgang Alexander Sobotka
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
This definition, which includes expressions of hatred against Israel and its right to exist as forms of antisemitism, repeatedly resurfaces as proposed legislation in countries seeking tools to combat antisemitism.
‘There’s no single solution’
What are the main challenges faced by Jews in Europe and what solutions are being proposed? “There’s no single solution,” explained ELNET Executive Director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland Carsten Ovens. “It’s a giant puzzle. The fact we’re bringing policymakers from across Europe here to discuss their country’s challenges and ways to combat antisemitism is the summit’s greatest achievement.”
Kruger pointed to several trends: “Western European countries with colonial pasts have become very antisemitic. In these places, Israel is often called an ‘apartheid state,’ and many antisemitic incidents are tied to Israel. In Eastern Europe, it’s crucial to preserve Holocaust memory and support Jewish historical research but there are fewer Israel-related problems.
“We mainly work with mayors and parliamentarians to change institutional policies, embed strategies to fight antisemitism and we’re already seeing results. In five years, we’ve established significant connections with 400 municipalities across Europe. In the U.S., we succeeded in declaring a ‘Jewish American Heritage Month,’ and we hope to implement a similar day in Europe.”
Yael Arad
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
The use of “anti-Zionism” (as hostility toward Israel is termed here) as an antisemitic weapon greatly concerns participants. It’s harder to combat pseudo-political positions without a pro-Israel consensus than antisemitism, which everyone agrees threatens democracy.
This sensitive issue greatly interests the dozens of parliament members and city representatives gathered in the wood-paneled hall in central Vienna, just a two-minute walk from the opera house — a setting seemingly far removed from the violence of antisemitic incidents.
“Identity politics, intersectionality, the woke movement and Critical Race Theory (CRT) are ideologies or social movements that, while not inherently threatening to Jews, naturally position Jews on the ‘wrong side’ of the equation. The strategic danger lies in their connection to anti-Israel and anti-Zionism,” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Sima Vaknin-Gil, former IDF chief censor and the Strategic Affairs Ministry’s director-general.
“The convergence of these elements could jeopardize the national security of both Israel and the Jewish people.” Vaknin-Gil, now on CAM’s board, directed part of the summit’s discussions.
Proposed measures against the phenomenon include naming and shaming, which works well against institutions or companies slow to respond or organize Israel-supporting audiences at sports competitions. In France, an organization called No Silence already buses fans to every Israeli team game.
Carsten Ovens
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
Social media poses a particularly tough challenge. Without financial sanctions, it’s hard to imagine major companies changing their lax oversight policies. Recommendations include creating an independent reporting platform, fines for abusers and “network promotion awards” for supporters from the platforms.
Antisemitism on academic campuses is a critical issue. Student representatives from Germany and Austria shared stories of attacks, the price they pay confronting pro-Palestinian professors and lengthy meetings with university heads that yield little progress.
“They don’t really understand the problem and change is minimal,” said Hanna Esther Weiler, president of the German Student Union and vice president of the European Union of Jewish Students. “We’ve lost friends since October 7. Some Jewish students only attend classes, avoiding cafeterias. Some are considering finishing their degrees in Israel.”
“They ask us for data on campus antisemitism incidents like in the U.S. We don’t have such statistics. We’re asked to dialogue with people celebrating massacres,” she added.
“Recently, at a protest near the Bundestag, someone held a sign saying, ‘Free Palestine from Holocaust guilt.’ We’re exhausted. We need help to strengthen our positive identity and financial support or there won’t be a new generation of young Jewish community leaders.”
Brig. Gen. (res.) Sima Vaknin-Gil
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
Event panel in Vienna
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
Dr. Joshua Krug
(Photo: Alissar Najjar)
Dr. Joshua Krug, a Jewish historian and theology expert who completed his degree in New York, lived in Israel and now teaches at Heidelberg University, suggested practical steps: “Be proactive, not just reactive. Ensure university presidents know what Jewish students experience, what it means for them to attend class and whether they feel safe in public campus spaces.”
“Ask what the university is doing about it. Jewish students shouldn’t be told, ‘Better not pass through here; there’s a pro-Palestinian protest.’ Does a Jew feel safe on campus wearing a Star of David? What’s the institution’s long-term strategy — not just a tactical response to the problem?”
“Do they clearly state and enforce antisemitism laws? If not, why? Are those claiming to be pro-Palestinian actually so or are they Hamas supporters? Don’t automatically give them a platform; check their exact position first.”
2024 Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism
(Video: Daniel Edelson)
Get the Ynetnews app on your smartphone: Google Play: https://bit.ly/4eJ37pE | Apple App Store: https://bit.ly/3ZL7iNv
“Jewish life has moved from the public to the private sphere,” Krug added. “Sometimes I want to stand outside with a sign saying, ‘I’m Jewish — ask me anything,’ but that’s no longer possible.”
“Ultimately, it’s up to non-Jews to fight antisemitism. CAM includes many non-Jewish participants. That’s the summit’s true importance: forging ties with politicians, mayors and university heads to implement these proposals.”
-
The author attended the CAM summit as a guest.
Goodbye…
They’re like the celebrities who say they’re moving to Canada if Trump wins; they’re not leaving. But Western nation should force them to and bar them from re-entry. After all the blood spilled in WW2 to found Israel, not one Jew should be allowed to live anywhere else but all should be airdropped to within its borders.
What might have seemed sensible by 1918 did not become sensible by 1948.
Instead of an expansionist Jewish national state in the Middle East giving Jews security and reducing antisemitism elsewhere, the opposite has happened, quite predictably.
As Hannah Arendt said, the Zionist secret is that persecution in the “diaspora” is welcome because it drives aliyah, though see also Dan Cohn-Sherbok, “The Paradox of Anti-Semitism” (2007).
The Israel government’s reference to European events over 80 years ago and the comparison, for instance, by its media hacks of concern about the death of innocent Palestinian children to the medieval “Blood Libel Trope” is wearing thin.
The response should not be rage and fantasy but rational argument and documented fact.
Your attempt to invoke Hannah Arendt and Dan Cohn-Sherbok to support your misguided views is both intellectually dishonest and historically inaccurate. Let’s dissect your fallacious arguments:
Your simplistic view of Zionism and its outcomes demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of the complex geopolitical realities of the Middle East. The creation of Israel was a response to centuries of persecution, not a cause of it.
Your misrepresentation of Hannah Arendt’s nuanced critique of certain Zionist approaches is appalling. Arendt was critical of specific aspects of Zionist ideology, but she never endorsed the kind of reductionist anti-Zionism you’re peddling.
The “Paradox of Anti-Semitism” you reference is a complex sociological concept, not a justification for anti-Semitic views or policies. Your superficial understanding of this concept is evident in your misuse of it.
Your dismissal of the historical context of the Holocaust and its relevance to modern Jewish security concerns is not only insensitive but also historically illiterate.
The comparison between legitimate concerns about civilian casualties and medieval blood libels is not a “media hack” but a valid point about the persistence of anti-Semitic tropes in modern discourse.
Your call for “rational argument and documented fact” is ironic given the lack of both in your comment. I suggest you educate yourself on the complexities of Middle Eastern history and the nuances of Jewish political thought before making such sweeping and ill-informed statements.
More from “Raphael.”
Hello again, Raphael!
1. Zionism was indeed designed, among other reasons, primarily as an answer to antisemitism; and for obvious reasons Palestine was decided over other territories (Argentina, Uganda/Kenya, &c); “Tomorrow Jerusalem”. Herzl knew well that “Judeophobia” as the unique multi-national “longest hatred” from ancient times to his own 19th-century was an interactive phenomenon.
2. Nazism arrived in power 16 years after the Balfour Declaration and had an ambiguous relationship to Zionists for a considerable period. Of course, WW2 persecution was a driving force for the creation of Israel. However, its location was bound to provoke regional hostility, and sadly the State has not provided Jews there, or in the diaspora, with relaxed security or an end to antisemitism.
3. I am responsible only for my own opinions, which you misread or misjudge (e.g. “peddling”). I am willing to comment at length in due course on your sweeping generalisations or on specific details (Arendt, Zionism, “tropes”), but this may be a waste of time and effort in your case, and tedious for readers here. Meanwhile, however, you can educate yourself further in the undisputed complexities of Middle East history by reading relevant alternative writers, including Nur Masalha, Norman Finkelstein, Alison Weir, Avraham Burg & Rashid Khalidi. You could make a repentant start on Asarah B’Tevet, perhaps, and come back here when eventually finished, possibly a bit wiser, and maybe even less cocky and ill-mannered.
Dummchen “Oriana Marie Krüger” is one of those typical inexperienced, ignorant goyish shiksas who is unscrupulously abused by the Jews for their purposes because of her incomprehensible naivety and an implanted Nazi guilt complex, because she believes their lies to be the (only) “truth”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLLydDBtfI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxIMNpLAyXA
“Pleasing the Jews” has become her purpose in life. Presumably the bimbo-fraulein who considers herself “enlightened” does not intend to have children with a fellow countryman and may be considered an ideal breeding ground for Jews to join the Aryan gene pool. https://archive.is/fcCrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwKC2FsZJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf6sfgfLgQ8
What was once the stuff of girls’ and women’s novels has long since become a social danger in times when incomprehensibly naive young women are granted positions of influence.
Dummchen: a mostly female silly
https://i.ibb.co/RT8JPJm/silly.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schumacher_(German_author)
And all the king’s buttgoys and all their boyfriends couldn’t make Shlomo’s lies believable again.
“I then decided to meet Holocaust survivors. It’s hard to look them in the eye and understand what they went through.” (Oriana Marie Krüger)
https://odysee.com/@ErnstZundelVideos:8/Dean-Irebodd—The-Phil-Donahue-Show—David-Cole,-Bradley-Smith—The-Gas-Chambers-of-WW2-(1994):6
Eight years after the appearance, “skeptic” Michael Shermer, against his better judgment, co-fabricated this “mockination” with two Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_History
“Since 2019, Shermer has been a member of the advisory board of the German minor party ‘Party of Humanists’ and is married to Jennifer Graf from Cologne.”
“Netanyahu must cancel Auschwitz event in Poland because an international arrest warrant for genocide has been issued against him.” I wonder how this irony comes about? Netanyahu and his ilk say that Auschwitz was an “extermination camp” and have everyone who doubts this or even investigates it persecuted and imprisoned.
And as with Auschwitz and the “neoconservative”, i.e. Jewish “incubator lie” to initiate the Iraq war (1 million dead), lies were also spread as accusations to justify the genocide against the Palestinians.
Kevin Barrett has once again held his usual “press review” with EMJ, from which I got this curious message. The American Barrett, who is not only married to a Moroccan Muslim woman, as he says himself, and converted to Islam, is also a citizen of Morocco.
EMJ is effectively his Abrahamic complement. All sins in the eyes of these two are “Jewish” (EMJ) or “Zionist” (Barret), except race-mixing and adherence to a universalist “religion” created by Jews, such as theirs, which is not of our cultural and racial heritage.
EMJ is even said to have said that he wouldn’t care if Ireland only had dark-skinned inhabitants as long as they were Christian-Catholic, thus continuing Ireland’s heritage, so to speak. At one point, Barrett and he briefly become entangled in a different understanding of a term:
EMJ says one should say “Jewish” and not “Zionist”. Barrett replies that Zionists are not only Jews, but also evangelicals, therefore “Christians” (however, there are also non-Christian Zionists). A point for him in their intra-Abrahamic hanky-panky, where EMJ gives in because he has no counter-argument.
As you can see, these people are pursuing their own agenda, cooking their own soup, so to speak, which is clearly distinct from a racially and ethnically based one. just like Jared Taylor, who denies the JQ.
Yesterday, Barret invited a guy named Duff, who claims that the term Jew has only existed since the 18th century, before which there were no sources. Apparently he considers his audience so uneducated that they have never heard of Luther’s “On the Jews and Their Lies” from 1543. After that, I lost all desire to listen.
But back to Auschwitz. It is indeed true what Dean Irebodd said: Bradley Smith’s cousin Audrey Young seems to have actually been married to the liar “Billy Wilder”, he even seems to have been at her funeral https://archive.is/7Sw14. Even though “Wilder” was not from Germany, but from Austria-Hungary. https://archive.is/K4sAr#842
https://de.scribd.com/document/289563395/Billy-Wilder-The-Man-Who-Wrote-and-Directed-the-Holocaust
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TzKYQIfI9IR5
Psycho-“survivor” carries out
cowardly coffee attack to pre-
vent the next hoax of century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeBDQUx6HQ0
“It is not necessarily the most beautiful country.” https://www.*mren.com/commentary/2024/12/race-not-religion/
*) a
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The question is, if culture, language, race, architecture, history, nature etc. are meant? What is perceived as “beautiful” these days is largely a mystery to my aesthetic standards anyway. Beauty can also be very rough and uninhabitable, see Iceland or Alaska. And if the anti-German fake government were not pouring billions of hard-earned national wealth over parasitic invaders, the Third World or Ukraine, there would also be money available to finally renew the crumbling infrastructure.
In addition, it must be argued that the face of the old towns was irretrievably lost through Allied bombing terror. These Allies also handed over about a third, if not a half, together with the cut-off eastern territories, to communism. But I can’t think of a more beautiful country in Europe right now, at least in terms of the diversity of nature and geology in the climatic conditions that suit us. Perhaps Italy is more beautiful. But it is true that every mother considers her own child to be the most beautiful, even if others find it difficult to understand.
Some consider Germany to be an industrial park with an adjoining recreational area. Unfortunately, it has the disadvantage (which is revered as a mantra today) of having been surrounded by enemies and therefore only developed a consistent kind of identity very late. According to historians, this is a possible explanation for the almost pathologically exaggerated nationalism of the Nazis. It is difficult for Germans to imagine not having multilingual neighbors and no border traffic.
Ultimately, Germany is a transit area for European streams of peoples, which at least prevented genetic degeneration through inbreeding. There are certainly interesting studies on how geographical conditions (such as great distances, as in Russia and America, or isolation, as in Japan and Ireland) affect the character of a people or a nation. Consider the inorganic, completely unnatural borders drawn up on the drawing board in the once colonized Third World. There, lines of latitude and longitude often served as an arbitrary template.
It is known from behavioral biology that too much closeness produces aggressiveness (territorial fights). But this cannot be the reason for the historical aggressiveness of the Germans, symbolized in their penchant for militarism. Perhaps the Protestant Prussians, for example, found it difficult to get along with each other other other than by giving orders and following orders, in contrast to the laid-back Catholic Rhinelanders, for example.
But New York and the Netherlands are also very densely populated, although they are not notorious for their aggressiveness. Unfortunately, the Protestants had prevailed over the Catholics, at least as far as militarism was concerned, although National Socialism was actually a southern German invention.
A so-called “Holocaust survivor” once said that “the Germans became anti-Semites because they were Nazis, the Austrians became Nazis because they were anti-Semites.”
Well, that view may be up this hateful Jew, but it is clear what is meant by that. Here the gallows humor of the Austrians had married with the energy of the Prussians. The debate as to whether Spengler (Prussianism and Socialism) or Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) was right continues to this day.
Who I can’t stand at all are the Berliners. Elsewhere, these people are considered vulgar, primitive and backward, you could say they’re a kind of “rednecks”, although the “hillbillies” are more like the eastern inhabitants of the Alps. And this “dialect” on top of that! I’m sure there are many lovely people there, but I would never move there unless I was forced to at gunpoint.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-the-hanseatics-prussians-h-5oUxvrTHRNiYON7wONYaBg
The Jew says that every tenth inhabitant in Tel Aviv is a millionaire [sic!], which confirms Gilad Azmon’s thesis that the wealth pyramid in Israel is upside down, because where would they get their wealth in their resource-less mini-state if not through systematic speculation in distant countries?
In other words, they are systematically sucking it out of their host countries, which are stupid enough as a result of Jewish brainwashing to even grant them a substatial share of power. Before, without their criminal base Israel, it was admittedly more difficult for them to cover up their undermining vole “activities”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1xpFdw1NOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okbyzS6ojr0
https://www.unz.com/article/holy-irony/
A quite plausible theory! I discovered yet another aspect of the story (hidden to the Anglo-American world for some “mysterious” reason):
“The two parts of the copper scroll were initially stored unopened in the Palestine Archaeological Museum (now the Rockefeller Museum) in Jerusalem. A. H. Corwin, Johns Hopkins University, worked on a method to make the copper sheet elastic again. This proved to be impossible, and the experts therefore declared that there was no alternative to sawing the brittle material apart.