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Angst is, indeed, palpable across the continent. From Britain to Italy, tensions have risen sharply. In the period between the Hamas attack and Oct. 27, Britain’s Community Security Trust, a charity, said that it had recorded 805 antisemitic acts, the highest number in a three-week period since it began reporting episodes of this kind in 1984.

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In France, home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, antisemitic attacks have surged since the Oct. 7 attack, with 819 acts registered and 414 arrests made, according to Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel, often described as the largest single-day slaughter of Jews since Hitler’s program of extermination, has awakened a repressed horror in Jewish populations, now compounded by dismay at the way the world’s sympathy has rapidly shifted to the Palestinians in Gaza being killed under Israeli bombardment.

This month, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s president, said at a rally held at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin that it was “intolerable that Jewish people are today once again living in fear — in our country, of all places.” In the week after the Hamas attack, the German federal agency that monitors antisemitism documented 202 episodes, a rise of 240 percent compared with the same period last year.

At a recent rally in Milan, protesters held aloft a poster with an image of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh, ostensibly to draw a connection between the fate of the young Jewish girl murdered at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during World War II and the Palestinians’ situation in Gaza.

With feelings running so high since the Oct. 7 attack that spurred a massive Israeli military response to oust Hamas from Gaza, the fine line between anti-Zionism — opposition to the State of Israel — and antisemitism — hatred of Jews — has appeared more blurry than ever.

“This is what happened to parents and grandparents in Europe, but we thought the era of massive calamity had passed,” said Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, a liberal American Jewish organization dedicated to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

Reporting was contributed by Catherine Porter, Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle, Christopher F. Schuetze, Megan Specia, Jason Horowitz, Gaia Pianigiani, Monika Pronczuk, Graham Bowley and Ivan Nechepurenko.


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