Posts Tagged: Europe Jews
‘Why Do They Hate Us?’
JNS.org - As part of an evening news segment on December 2, Israel’s Channel 12 examined the panic among British Jews over the prospect that...
How Does One Hurt and Humiliate a Person (or a People)?
How does one hurt and humiliate a person (or a people)? By actions. 2020 has been declared “The Year of the Vilna Gaon and the Jewish Heritage”...
Belgium’s Carnival of Hatred Is Still Going Strong
JNS.org - A few years ago, I was paying for some items at a large department store in the Netherlands when I was startled by...
For German Jews, More Security Is Not Enough
After the Halle, Germany synagogue shooting during Yom Kippur, there were the usual outpourings of condemnation, pavement flowers for the victims, and feel-good statements of...
‘Smokescreening’ — Anti-Israel Sentiment Expressed Through False Friendship
Smokescreening, the false pretense of friendship toward Israel, is a common practice. Practitioners include US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, former US president Barack Obama,...
In a ‘Judas’ Effigy in Poland, a Deadly Antisemitic Trope Persists
JNS.org - When I worked for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) more than a decade ago, relations between the Polish government and the Jewish community worldwide...
Sarah Halimi’s Antisemitic Murderer Disappears Behind a Smokescreen
JNS.org - During the prosecution of Jared Lee Loughner -- the shooter sentenced to life imprisonment for the January 2011 murder of six people and...
The Multiple Faces of Whitewashing Antisemitism
Major cases of antisemitism are usually accompanied by a variety of whitewashing statements. Yet this whitewashing is rarely looked at as a widespread and multi-faceted...
The Pervasive Antisemitism in Dutch Soccer Stadiums
“My father served with the commandos, my mother was with the SS. Together they burned Jews, because Jews burn best.” This is the text of one...
Examining Belgian Antisemitism
Though antisemitism in Belgium is widespread and has many facets, it gets little international attention. Two current issues have temporarily changed this, at least somewhat....
Europe’s Empty Words on Antisemitism
This year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day was preceded by what might be called “European antisemitism worrying week.” Leading European politicians issued many statements saying that...
The Persistence of European Antisemitism
The fight against antisemitism on the international level continues to be characterized by restraint combined with ignorance -- a potentially deadly combination. European hand-wringing and...
Antisemitism Is Alive and Well in Europe — If It Ever Left
Saying that antisemitism is integral to European culture does not make one popular in Europe. This does not change if one notes that articulating this...
The Crimes of the Dutch: A Lesson in Hypocrisy
The Netherlands is a profoundly hypocritical society. To prove such a statement in detail would require a lengthy book. But one possible shortcut to support...
