From The European Conservative,
"What do the numbers show now? A record number of 144 antisemitic incidents were reported in Belgium in 2023, the highest since monitoring began in 2001, according to data from antisemitisme.be. But this isn’t a unique Belgian phenomenon. Dutch Jews said they had documented 421 antisemitic incidents last year, a record tally that surpassed the previous all-time high, reported in 2023, by 11%. The number of antisemitic incidents in Germany almost doubled last year, reported the semi-official German body that tracks antisemitism. The Federal Research and Information Point for Antisemitism (RIAS) said it had registered 8,627 incidents of violence, vandalism, and threats against Jews in Germany last year, almost twice the 4,886 recorded in 2023, and far ahead of 2020’s 1,957. France saw nearly 1,600 anti-Semitic acts in 2024, perhaps a slight dip from the year before, but still at levels unseen in recent years, the country’s main Jewish organization said. Britain suffered its second-worst year for antisemitism in 2024, with more than 3,500 incidents being recorded, the Jewish body advising communities on security reported in February."
Why the rise you ask? The article focuses on the answer: Islam.
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli believes that Jews have no future in Belgium. In a tweet, Chikli “highly recommended” that “the Jewish community in Belgium” leave the country, declaring that it “has been seized by Islamist mobs chanting for Hamas and Hezbollah.” He added, “Re-enactments of October 7 horrors and open death threats to Jewish leaders go unanswered. Hezbollah operatives operate in the country with complete impunity.” Concluding his message, Chikli wrote, “Belgium has surrendered!” and reiterated his warning: “I highly recommend the Jewish community in Belgium to leave—this country has lost its sovereignty and can no longer protect its Jews.”
Governments must crack down on antisemitism so that people do not have to leave their countries to the mobs, and if that means cracking down on Islamist mobs, then so be it.
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European governments won't crack down on Islamist mobs, partly from fear and partly from misguided belief in "multiculturalism." In addition, most Europeans are no longer actively Christian. They will not defend their culture because they no longer believe in it.
ReplyDeleteSad but true.
DeleteThere is a war going on and only muslims are fighting.
ReplyDeleteYour post on European antisemitism on Wednesday was very timely given the deadly attack on a Manchester, England, synagogue the next day, Yom Kippur. Further, the UK is tolerating demonstrations in its cities celebrating this attack.
ReplyDeleteThe appointment of a left-wing, pro-choice, pro-LGBTetc. female archbishop for Canterbury does not indicate that a return to Christian faith and evangelism in the UK will be coming any time soon.
The U.K. has fallen to the non-Christians. And the King, the so called "defender of the Faith" approved the appointment of a false teacher to head the sect that dares to call itself a Church..
DeleteI feel we should take the radical jihadist at their word, when they say they want to rid the world of Jews first and then Christians next.
ReplyDeleteSeems like they mean what they say.
Sadly, we must gird up our loins and be "situationally aware" in any venue we go to these days. Especially places of worship.
Shalom be to those in the tribe of Judah, as the persecution ramps up, I only seeing it getting worse. Praise be to the Lord, that the Lion of the tribe of Judah is coming back!
In the meantime, we must labor and pray for those who don't know Christ to have the scales removed from their eyes. Both Jew and Gentile, Muslim and Infidel.