European Jewish communities raise readiness level following Iran’s attack on Israel

Jewish communities are entering a state of “heightened vigilance” following Iran’s drone attack on Israel, a leader of European Jewry says.

“Given the current situation, Jewish communities in Europe have raised their level of preparedness,” Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, says in a statement Saturday night. Iranian proxies have in recent years targeted Jews across Europe, including in Greece and Bulgaria, Goldschmidt notes.

Separately, the secretary of the Organization of American States, or OAS, Luis Almagro warns that Iran may target Jewish communities in Latin America. This applies especially to “autocratic regimes with close ties with Iran and its proxies,” Almagro says at a symposium in Washington DC, organized this weekend by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and B’nai B’rith International.