Thread by @Cameron_Gray

Over 300 French dignitaries and stars have signed a manifesto denouncing a "new #AntiSemitism" marked by "Islamist radicalisation" after a string of killings of Jews, to be published in Le Figaro newspaper

timesofisrael.com/300-french-per… (via @TimesofIsrael)

#AntiSemitisme #Judeophobia

The country’s half-a-million-plus Jewish community is the largest in Europe but has been hit by a wave of emigration to Israel in the past two decades, partly due to the emergence of virulent #AntiSemitism in predominantly immigrant neighborhoods.

“In our recent history, 11 Jews have been assassinated — and some tortured — by radical Islamists because they were Jewish,” the declaration said.

The murders referenced reach as far back as 2006.

In April 2017, an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties was thrown out of the window of her Paris flat by a neighbor shouting “Allahu Akhbar” (God is greatest).

#SarahHalimi #AntiSemitism #AntiSemitisme #France

The latest attack to rock France took place last month when two perpetrators stabbed an 85-year-old Jewish woman 11 times before setting her body on fire, in a crime treated as anti-Semitic.

#MireilleKnoll #AntiSemitism #AntiSemitisme #France

Elsewhere in Western Europe

Angela Merkel: ‘Refugees bring a new type of #antisemitism to Germany’ jpost.com/International/… (via @Jerusalem_Post)

“I am embarrassed due to the fact that Jewish institutions require security details in 2018,” Merkel said. She connected this with the arrival of refugees and “people of Arab heritage” who, Merkel said, “bring with them a new form of antisemitism into Germany.”

This video was tweeted just the other day

In it, a Muslim youth attacks a non-Jew who was wearing a yarmulke as an experiment - Just looking like a Jew gets you assaulted in 2018 Germany

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And it's not like his experiment was a crazy exercise

2015: 'Risk Has Gotten Greater': German Jews Advised Against Wearing Kippah spon.de/aerJ8

2012: German Rabbinical College Warns Against Wearing Kippot in Public ch7.io/cM9M$Fw

Western European Jews are in danger just for being Jews

Swedish Reporter Assaulted After Wearing Kippah to Test Attitudes Toward Jews
Reporter walked through southern city of Malmo wearing traditional Jewish cap, had to flee for fear of serious violence. haaretz.com/jewish/kippah-…

No-go Areas for Jews in Europe ch7.io/dde0$Fw

Jews in Denmark have just been warned by Israeli officials not to appear publicly wearing Jewish religious symbols such as yarmulkes or stars of David in order to avoid increasing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic altercations.

Finland's Jewish community was advised not to wear the skullcap in public for fear of anti-Semitic attacks.

Norway's Jewish Community has advised its members against speaking Hebrew loudly on the streets or wearing Jewish emblems.

In the UK, there have been many cases like that of an Orthodox child, who was wearing a kippa and tzitzit, verbally threatened and physically intimidated by a hooded youth as he travelled on a London bus.

When the faithful leave Rome's main synagogue they immediately hide the skullcap. Police patrol the area day and night.

In the Netherlands, the country of Baruch Spinoza, police officers began wearing yarmulkes to catch Dutch Jew haters in the act of physical or verbal assault. Jewish students are told to "put a cap over your kippah."

Last autumn the ancient Dutch synagogue of Weesp became the first synagogue in Europe since the Second World War to cancel Shabbat services due to the threats to the safety of the faithful.

Wake up, Western Europe, before it's too late #NeverForget

#AntiSemitism #AntiSemitisme #Judeophobia