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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

European anti-Semitism

Photographers watch Jewish people and supporters blow shofars and whistles in London, March 10, 2024 to show solidarity with the hostages held in Gaza by terror groups since October 7.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
July 22, 2024, 10:23 am
Israel a much higher priority for European Jewish leaders after Oct. 7, survey shows
Supporting the Jewish state rose from 14th to 5th in importance in a poll of hundreds of community heads from 32 countries
By Canaan Lidor
A woman walks along a building whose facade is covered with Stars of David painted during the night, in the Alesia district of Paris, on October 31, 2023. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP)
December 2, 2023, 1:13 am
As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia
As the Israel-Hamas war rages, sources claim Russians stoking an already tense situation – a strategy used by the country’s security services against the West since the Cold War
By David I. Klein
People gather with placards and a large Palestinian flag to take part in a 'March For Palestine' in London on October 14, 2023 (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)
October 26, 2023, 2:08 pm
Pro-Hamas sentiment shocks European Jews, rekindling fears about their future
The disgust felt by millions toward the terrorist group’s barbarity is overshadowed by angry street protests against Israel and soaring antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, on July 10, 2021. (Francois Walschaerts/Pool Photo via AP)
October 5, 2021, 6:14 pm
EU releases first-ever strategy to fight antisemitism, promote Jewish life
Program focuses on Holocaust awareness, securing sites, monitoring hate speech; pledges to work with Israel on initiative
By Lazar Berman
Rasela Mizrahi, right, speaks to a colleague during a cabinet meeting in Skopje, North Macedonia, January 14, 2020. (Courtesy of the Parliament of North Macedonia/ via JTA)
June 8, 2021, 4:12 am
North Macedonia’s first Jewish lawmaker breaks taboos, is hit with antisemitism
As Rasela Mizrahi becomes a hero to some on the right, others on the left unleash the biggest post-Holocaust torrent of hatred ever seen by the country’s Jewish community of 200
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Shai Hoffman explains about his Bus of Encounters project in Frankfurt, Germany on August 25, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
January 28, 2021, 6:41 am
Rise of anti-Semitism, other extremism has German Jews questioning their future
The government supports the Jewish community, but unchecked hate and violent attacks from far-right and Muslim populations and a rapidly aging demographic have some eying the door
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The leader of the Jewish community Max Privorozki (R) is pictured on October 10, 2019 in Halle, Germany, a day after the Yom Kippur attack outside a synagogue there in which two people were shot dead. (AXEL SCHMIDT / AFP)
September 27, 2020, 4:34 pm
A year after Halle terror attack, Jews who were there still looking for answers
A shooting that killed two on Yom Kippur last year has underscored rising anti-Semitism in Germany, but investigations in its wake reveal even more disturbing systemic shortcomings
By Joe Baur
A painting depicting the transfiguration of Jesus, a story in the New Testament when Jesus becomes radiant upon a mountain (Raphael /Collections Hallwyl Museum, CC BY-SA)
July 18, 2020, 12:35 am
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
Historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin of other first-century Galilee Jews. Not so the common portrayal, under scrutiny at time of introspection over legacy of racism
By Anna Swartwood House
In this August 10, 2017, photo, whiskey is poured at the Milk and Honey whiskey distillery in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
July 16, 2020, 2:19 am
The forgotten history of Jews in the alcohol industry
Some estimates say 30-40% of Jewish people — women and kids included — worked as makers or purveyors of hooch in Eastern Europe until the end of the 19th century
By Joel Haber
A Judensau sculpture on display on the outer wall of the town church of St. Marien in Wittenberg, Germany, February 4, 2020. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)
June 26, 2020, 4:40 am
German church goes to high court to take down perverse anti-Semitic carvings
Landmark commissions are protecting Judensau, ancient sculptures depicting Jews engaged in sexual activity with pigs, dozens of which adorn churches that don’t want them
By Toby Axelrod
Woodcut depicting 'Simon of Trent' alleged ritual murder, 1475 (public domain)
February 2, 2020, 4:18 am
Myth of Jews killing Christian children persists, says new book on blood libel
‘Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth’ by historian Magda Teter examines lethal canard from its roots in monastic tales to the pages of German Nazi broadsheets
By Matt Lebovic
Port Vale's Tom Pope, right, during a soccer match in Manchester, England, January 4, 2020. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP)
January 6, 2020, 10:15 pm
Soccer player investigated for offensive Rotschilds conspiracy tweet
English Football Association asks Tom Pope why he wrote that World War III would end with Jewish family ‘crowned champions of every bank on the planet’
By AP
Italian soccer fans hold black flags effigying late dictator Benito Mussolini, during an Italian major league soccer match in Rome in 2006. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)
November 28, 2019, 10:20 pm
Italian police bust armed neo-Nazi group after nationwide sweeps
Police seize automatic weapons, rifles, crossbows, swords, knives, Nazi flags and books on Hitler and Mussolini
By AFP
Illustrative: Members of the Conference of European Rabbis meet at a seminar in London on September 10, 2019. (Conference of European Rabbis)
November 27, 2019, 1:31 am
Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler’ at rabbis discussing anti-Semitism at Geneva convention
Synagogue security blocks offender from entering property and asks rabbis to go inside
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a grave vandalized with a swastika during a visit at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, on February 19, 2019, on the day of nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. (Frederick Florin/Pool/AFP)
November 21, 2019, 7:13 am
ADL survey: 25% of Europeans anti-Semitic, East European bigotry rises sharply
A global poll of 9,000 adults in 18 countries shows significant numbers believe age-old tropes about Jews, including that they seek world domination
By Yaakov Schwartz
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