Netanyahu warns of European anti-Semitism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Europeans are not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism, in a statement on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Netanyahu, who has routinely argued the Jewish state is unfairly singled out for criticism by the United Nations and other bodies, warns that “in Europe and elsewhere, Jews are once again being targeted just for being Jews.”

“We see anti-Semitism directed against individual Jews, and we also see this hatred directed against the collective Jew, against the Jewish state,” he adds.

Netanyahu warns that anti-Semitism is gaining traction across Europe.

“Even respected Western opinion leaders have become afflicted with hatred for the Jewish people and the Jewish state,” Netanyahu said, without giving names. “The obsession with the Jews — the fixation on the Jewish state — defies any other rational explanation.”

International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked around the globe on Wednesday to commemorate the six million Jews who died at the hands of Nazi Germany and its allies.

— AFP