Just over four years ago, I wrote that Jews were fleeing Europe again for the first time since WWII. Unbelievably, it’s getting worse: exponentially worse. Even more unbelievably, it’s getting worse as a direct result of the worst massacre of Jews since WWII. It’s as if the rest of Europe had seen Kristallnacht and decided, We’ll have what they’re having!
It’s a shameful stain that’s spreading across Europe and the rest of the Western world, from the USA to Australia and New Zealand. Aided and abetted by, not the far-right, but the mainstream left. The Greens are the worst offenders, but Labor and the Democrats aren’t far behind.
Last month’s slayings of about 1,200 people in Israel by armed Palestinian terrorists represented the biggest killing of Jews since the Holocaust. The fallout from it, and from Israel’s intense military response that health officials in Hamas-controlled Gaza say has killed at least 13,300 Palestinians, has extended to Europe. In doing so, it has shaken a continent all too familiar with deadly anti-Jewish hatred for centuries.
If Jews were expecting sympathy after such a horror, they’ve been in for a rude shock. The only sympathy far too many people have expressed is for the bloodthirsty savages who perpetrated the atrocities. It’s as if the world had reacted to the liberation of Auschwitz by weeping and wailing for the Germans in bombed Berlin.
What most chills many Jews interviewed is what they see as the lack of empathy for the Israelis killed during the early morning massacre and for the relatives of the hostages — about 30 of whom are children — suspended in an agonizing limbo.
“What really upsets me,” said Holocaust survivor Herbert Traube said at a Paris event commemorating the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 government-backed pogroms against Jews in Germany and Austria, “is to see that there isn’t a massive popular reaction against this.”
Instead, there’s been a massive reaction — ironically, from the very people who prate the loudest about “anti-racism”, “peace”, and “safe spaces” — for it.
The list of examples of anti-Jewish sentiment since the Oct. 7 attacks is long and documented by governments and watchdog groups across Europe.
— Little more than a month after the attack in Israel, the French Interior Ministry said 1,247 antisemitic incidents had been reported since Oct. 7, nearly three times the total for all of 2022.
— Denmark’s main Jewish association said cases were up 24 times from the average of the last nine months.
— The Community Security Trust, which tracks antisemitic incidents in Britain, reported more than 1,000 such events — the most ever recorded for a 28-day period […]
In Russia, a riot broke out at an airport in which there were some antisemitic chants and posters from a crowd of men looking for passengers who had arrived from Israel. A Berlin synagogue was firebombed. An assailant stabbed a Jewish woman twice in the stomach at her home in Lyon, France, according to her lawyer.
In Prague’s Little Quarter last month, staffers at the well-known Hippopotamus bar refused to serve beer to several tourists from Israel and their Czech guides, and some patrons served up insults. Police had to step in. In Berlin, Jews are still reeling from an attempted firebombing of a synagogue last month.
In Australia, shamefully, Muslims immediately celebrated the October 7 massacre by marching, chanting “Gas the Jews!” Greens politicians proudly marched alongside them. Senior Greens politicians have also posed with signs calling to “cleanse the world” of Jews.
In New Zealand, too, the Greens are at the forefront of the hate, with the disgusting Chloe Swarbrick screeching Hamas’ genocidal war cry.
And in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, some protesters are shouting, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Some say that’s a call for Palestinian freedom and is not anti-Jewish but anti-Israel. Many Jews, though, say the chant is inherently anti-Jewish and calls for the destruction of Israel.
Las Vegas Review Journal
Anyone who denies that it does is a liar or a fool — and absolutely an anti-Semite.
The genocide chant was most recently heard at a violent attack on a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in — where else? — Seattle, home of violent far-left extremists, Antifa.
Pro-Hamas activists disrupted Seattle’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Westlake Center on Friday night […]
Earlier in the day, pro-Hamas activists wearing masks marched through other parts of the city and vandalized local storefronts […] 14 Seattle area Jewish institutions have been targeted, with actions ranging from letters with white powder to graffiti since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
The Post-Millennial
Violent socialists just can’t help themselves, can they?
