The executive body of the European Union has issued a forthright condemnation of rising antisemitism across the continent, declaring that hatred of Jews “goes against everything which Europe stands for.”
In a statement issued on Sunday, the European Commission — together with the European Council, the executive branch of the EU — observed that the spike in antisemitism “has reached extraordinary levels in recent days, reminiscent of some of the darkest moments in history.”
“European Jews today are once again living in fear,” the statement declared.
The statement cited a handful of the thousands of incidents targeting Jews in EU member states. “Molotov cocktails thrown at a synagogue in Germany, Stars of David sprayed at residential buildings in France, a Jewish cemetery desecrated in Austria, Jewish stores and synagogues attacked in Spain, demonstrators chanting hateful slogans against Jews,” the statement noted.
The statement pledged that “the EU stands by its Jewish communities. We condemn these despicable acts in the strongest possible terms.”
As pro-Hamas demonstrations took place in several European cities over the weekend, politicians and diplomats expressed concern that antisemitism was again taking hold.
In an interview on Sunday with the Spanish news agency EFE, Israel’s Ambassador in Madrid, Rodica Radian-Gordon, angrily took issue with demonstrators accusing Israel of committing genocide in its military response to the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7.
She stressed that Israel does not seek to eliminate the Palestinian people, but those “responsible for the attack.”
“People do not know the definition of genocide. We are not here to kill the Palestinian people, or to evict them, or anything,” Radian-Gordon underlined.
“I don’t think Europe has learned the lesson of what antisemitism is and how it should be fought, because we are seeing more and more antisemitic acts throughout Europe, including Spain,” she added. While expressing concern for the welfare of Palestinian civilians was legitimate, “Hamas should not be supported,” she said.
“We make a distinction between Hamas and the Palestinian people. You have to be very careful,” Radion-Gordon said.
Especially in Germany, the migrant-AFD anti semitic coalition.
I don’t see Europe going much further than condemnations and declarations. After all, these anti-Semites are being a much larger proportion of their electorate than Jews.
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Sad to think that in the current state of how things are going in some countries in Europe, soon Jewish people will not be able to live safely without hiding their Jewish identity. Even if they have nothing at all to do with Israel.
Antisemitism is in historical all time highs worldwide. That’s a well documented fact. The recent events are just a demonstration of that reality. Anyone talking about how “people just care about the Palestinians and don’t hate Jews” lives in a parallel universe.
Who would have thought decades of low birth rates caused by an economic system that requires we work work work and pay high rents or house prices, then “fixing” that problem by encouraging people from Muslim countries to move to Europe and then backing US-Israel foreign policy in the middle East.
Who would have thought it.
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I think for the most part it’s the Western EU that has a problem with anti semitism these days.
1. Import millions of people who are often antisemitic
2. Israel-Palestine conflict is once again errupting full force
3. Act surprised that antisemitism in europe is spiking
Lol, lmao even.
So Europe will respond with a healthy dose of ‘Islamaphobia’ aka not tolerating intolerant religious nutcases
It’s horrendous to see this development all over the continent. Until a month ago, I really thought that the vast majority of people had understood the lessons of the holocaust. It’s extremely worrying to realize that antisemitism has been very much alive, just under the surface.
It’s not only the protests and attacks we’ve seen that’s worrying, but that a lot of EU states seem to not be able, or willing, to combat antisemitism. Even news sources tend to take an anti Israeli and anti Jewish stance, at least in my country. Even the media channel of the state refuse to call the attacks on the 7th October terror attacks.
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Can’t wait for this to not show up in all the heavy pro Hamas subreddits or be told that the Jews are ‘exaggerating’
Europeans built a great civilisation, why ruin it?
Immigration is not a bad thing, but it should be more specific and there should be regulation, let the educated, non radicalised in, keep the racists and extremists out.
This hostility starts with the jews and later it will effect everyone.
I already feel unsafe as a Jew, I am hiding the fact that I am Jewish and I cannot wear any religious symbols in public, I heard people talking about Jews in a disgusting way behind my shoulders, most of them weren’t even Europeans.
Why is that? What did I do wrong that I cannot be *myself* in Europe?
Why are we using the German euphemism ‘Antisemitism’ and not the original populist term for the phenomena: Judenhass.
It’s very important for the people protesting against Israel to understand it’s Israel as a country and government who is bombing Gaza and not Jews worldwide. Russians received the same hate after Ukraine war, Americans were hated for the middle east wars, etc. Civilians are just civilians.
Ffs it’s kinda hard to combat antisemitism effectively when Israel’s currently rolling a genocide train full steam ahead through Gaza.
I mean the global fury their behavior is igniting is pretty damn terrifying.
All of this shows how antisemitic Europeans are, deep down, and it obviously didn’t start with ‘migration of Muslims’… No Arabs would go around spraying a star of David on houses. That is viewed as a symbol of oppression in the Middle East. There are literally IOF torture chambers in the south of Lebanon with the star of David symbols everywhere!
This is the result when you have a bunch of terrorists calling for the murder of Jews mixed with the underlying European antisemitism bubbling on the surface. To dismiss it as simply ‘an immigrant’ problem is laughable. Immigrants didn’t kill 6 million Jews. Europeans did.
The problem with Israel is that they try to hide a genocide and ethnic cleansing using the antisemitism reverse card.
I can’t imagine the UK army bombing Northern Ireland during IRA times, or Spain bombing Basque country during worst years of ETA.
I understand the last Hamas acts are horrible and must be punished with highest punishments, but killing thousands of civilians and with ethnic cleansing Israel is creating hundreds millions of enemies around the world.
It seems to me like extremists in Israel feed the Hamas Monster, and Hamás also feeds radical sionists.
Moderate people from Israel and Palestine must start working to have a feasible Israel and Palestine independent and peacefiul countries.
This is such a dumb question, so these people move to Europe for change, better life, etc. and then they are pretty much rioting to turn the country into some kind of country like the one they escaped from. That’s what I don’t get lol. Why flee a place, only to demand your new country of residence to become what you escaped. I honestly don’t get the logic behind it lol.
Quite wild the amount of casual racism in a thread decrying racism.
It seems that antisemitism in Europe is driven by Muslims. Is it the same in the US?
Incredibly disingenuous of this article to frame marches for Palestine and calls for a ceasefire as “pro Hamas marches”
Anti-Semitism is enough of a problem without having to lie about it
This bullshit again🙄
Remember Bataclan, Wiena, Charlie Hebdo, Nice
This sub has become something else in the last few months
That thing that Europe spent the past 70 years proclaiming will never happen again is happening again…
Sorry, but after 75 years of the Gaza genocide — Tough.
The Arabs can change that silly progression…
First they come for the Palestinians… and then Afghans, then Iraqis, then Syrians, then Iranians.
The Palestinians have been living in fear for 75+ years and it seems that what they are afraid of is Jews.
Yeah, it really isn’t “Jews” but just a “few” Zionists.
Tell that to the people of the Donbas, about the Kiev Nazis.
I’m not taking sides here. Just pointing out what should be obvious.
Get Islam out of Europe. It is oppressive and against European values and freedoms.
Lol of course they are.
They also felt victimised by children’s art made in Gaza so Westminster hospital had to take it down.
These people are some of the wealthiest in the world, living in majority white suburbs in the wealthiest cities in the world…but of course they’re living in fear because a group of people are arranging a march remember the victims of a genocide committed by Israel.
Is this real life
New hasbara post just dropped
Europeans: steal and murder from the 4 corners of the world to build their beautiful little garden
Also Europeans: import people from the countries they destroyed
People of those countries: despise the hypocritical European values
Europeans: Surprised Pikachu face
You reap what you sow.
The islamaphobia and anti Arab in this European Reddit is insane
y’all eurofags are delusional, the only “good” civilizations you built were by ransacking the rest of the world, and now you’re wondering why people emigrate there?, lol.
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Article:
The executive body of the European Union has issued a forthright condemnation of rising antisemitism across the continent, declaring that hatred of Jews “goes against everything which Europe stands for.”
In a statement issued on Sunday, the European Commission — together with the European Council, the executive branch of the EU — observed that the spike in antisemitism “has reached extraordinary levels in recent days, reminiscent of some of the darkest moments in history.”
“European Jews today are once again living in fear,” the statement declared.
The statement cited a handful of the thousands of incidents targeting Jews in EU member states. “Molotov cocktails thrown at a synagogue in Germany, Stars of David sprayed at residential buildings in France, a Jewish cemetery desecrated in Austria, Jewish stores and synagogues attacked in Spain, demonstrators chanting hateful slogans against Jews,” the statement noted.
The statement pledged that “the EU stands by its Jewish communities. We condemn these despicable acts in the strongest possible terms.”
As pro-Hamas demonstrations took place in several European cities over the weekend, politicians and diplomats expressed concern that antisemitism was again taking hold.
In an interview on Sunday with the Spanish news agency EFE, Israel’s Ambassador in Madrid, Rodica Radian-Gordon, angrily took issue with demonstrators accusing Israel of committing genocide in its military response to the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7.
She stressed that Israel does not seek to eliminate the Palestinian people, but those “responsible for the attack.”
“People do not know the definition of genocide. We are not here to kill the Palestinian people, or to evict them, or anything,” Radian-Gordon underlined.
“I don’t think Europe has learned the lesson of what antisemitism is and how it should be fought, because we are seeing more and more antisemitic acts throughout Europe, including Spain,” she added. While expressing concern for the welfare of Palestinian civilians was legitimate, “Hamas should not be supported,” she said.
“We make a distinction between Hamas and the Palestinian people. You have to be very careful,” Radion-Gordon said.
Especially in Germany, the migrant-AFD anti semitic coalition.
I don’t see Europe going much further than condemnations and declarations. After all, these anti-Semites are being a much larger proportion of their electorate than Jews.
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Sad to think that in the current state of how things are going in some countries in Europe, soon Jewish people will not be able to live safely without hiding their Jewish identity. Even if they have nothing at all to do with Israel.
Antisemitism is in historical all time highs worldwide. That’s a well documented fact. The recent events are just a demonstration of that reality. Anyone talking about how “people just care about the Palestinians and don’t hate Jews” lives in a parallel universe.
Who would have thought decades of low birth rates caused by an economic system that requires we work work work and pay high rents or house prices, then “fixing” that problem by encouraging people from Muslim countries to move to Europe and then backing US-Israel foreign policy in the middle East.
Who would have thought it.
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I think for the most part it’s the Western EU that has a problem with anti semitism these days.
1. Import millions of people who are often antisemitic
2. Israel-Palestine conflict is once again errupting full force
3. Act surprised that antisemitism in europe is spiking
Lol, lmao even.
So Europe will respond with a healthy dose of ‘Islamaphobia’ aka not tolerating intolerant religious nutcases
It’s horrendous to see this development all over the continent. Until a month ago, I really thought that the vast majority of people had understood the lessons of the holocaust. It’s extremely worrying to realize that antisemitism has been very much alive, just under the surface.
It’s not only the protests and attacks we’ve seen that’s worrying, but that a lot of EU states seem to not be able, or willing, to combat antisemitism. Even news sources tend to take an anti Israeli and anti Jewish stance, at least in my country. Even the media channel of the state refuse to call the attacks on the 7th October terror attacks.
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Can’t wait for this to not show up in all the heavy pro Hamas subreddits or be told that the Jews are ‘exaggerating’
Europeans built a great civilisation, why ruin it?
Immigration is not a bad thing, but it should be more specific and there should be regulation, let the educated, non radicalised in, keep the racists and extremists out.
This hostility starts with the jews and later it will effect everyone.
I already feel unsafe as a Jew, I am hiding the fact that I am Jewish and I cannot wear any religious symbols in public, I heard people talking about Jews in a disgusting way behind my shoulders, most of them weren’t even Europeans.
Why is that? What did I do wrong that I cannot be *myself* in Europe?
Why are we using the German euphemism ‘Antisemitism’ and not the original populist term for the phenomena: Judenhass.
It’s very important for the people protesting against Israel to understand it’s Israel as a country and government who is bombing Gaza and not Jews worldwide. Russians received the same hate after Ukraine war, Americans were hated for the middle east wars, etc. Civilians are just civilians.
Ffs it’s kinda hard to combat antisemitism effectively when Israel’s currently rolling a genocide train full steam ahead through Gaza.
I mean the global fury their behavior is igniting is pretty damn terrifying.
All of this shows how antisemitic Europeans are, deep down, and it obviously didn’t start with ‘migration of Muslims’… No Arabs would go around spraying a star of David on houses. That is viewed as a symbol of oppression in the Middle East. There are literally IOF torture chambers in the south of Lebanon with the star of David symbols everywhere!
This is the result when you have a bunch of terrorists calling for the murder of Jews mixed with the underlying European antisemitism bubbling on the surface. To dismiss it as simply ‘an immigrant’ problem is laughable. Immigrants didn’t kill 6 million Jews. Europeans did.
The problem with Israel is that they try to hide a genocide and ethnic cleansing using the antisemitism reverse card.
I can’t imagine the UK army bombing Northern Ireland during IRA times, or Spain bombing Basque country during worst years of ETA.
I understand the last Hamas acts are horrible and must be punished with highest punishments, but killing thousands of civilians and with ethnic cleansing Israel is creating hundreds millions of enemies around the world.
It seems to me like extremists in Israel feed the Hamas Monster, and Hamás also feeds radical sionists.
Moderate people from Israel and Palestine must start working to have a feasible Israel and Palestine independent and peacefiul countries.
This is such a dumb question, so these people move to Europe for change, better life, etc. and then they are pretty much rioting to turn the country into some kind of country like the one they escaped from. That’s what I don’t get lol. Why flee a place, only to demand your new country of residence to become what you escaped. I honestly don’t get the logic behind it lol.
Quite wild the amount of casual racism in a thread decrying racism.
It seems that antisemitism in Europe is driven by Muslims. Is it the same in the US?
Incredibly disingenuous of this article to frame marches for Palestine and calls for a ceasefire as “pro Hamas marches”
Anti-Semitism is enough of a problem without having to lie about it
This bullshit again🙄
Remember Bataclan, Wiena, Charlie Hebdo, Nice
This sub has become something else in the last few months
That thing that Europe spent the past 70 years proclaiming will never happen again is happening again…
Sorry, but after 75 years of the Gaza genocide — Tough.
The Arabs can change that silly progression…
First they come for the Palestinians… and then Afghans, then Iraqis, then Syrians, then Iranians.
The Palestinians have been living in fear for 75+ years and it seems that what they are afraid of is Jews.
Yeah, it really isn’t “Jews” but just a “few” Zionists.
Tell that to the people of the Donbas, about the Kiev Nazis.
I’m not taking sides here. Just pointing out what should be obvious.
Get Islam out of Europe. It is oppressive and against European values and freedoms.
Lol of course they are.
They also felt victimised by children’s art made in Gaza so Westminster hospital had to take it down.
These people are some of the wealthiest in the world, living in majority white suburbs in the wealthiest cities in the world…but of course they’re living in fear because a group of people are arranging a march remember the victims of a genocide committed by Israel.
Is this real life
New hasbara post just dropped
Europeans: steal and murder from the 4 corners of the world to build their beautiful little garden
Also Europeans: import people from the countries they destroyed
People of those countries: despise the hypocritical European values
Europeans: Surprised Pikachu face
You reap what you sow.
The islamaphobia and anti Arab in this European Reddit is insane
y’all eurofags are delusional, the only “good” civilizations you built were by ransacking the rest of the world, and now you’re wondering why people emigrate there?, lol.
Keep sucking israel dick