Sunday, November 10, 2013

Europe Has a Jewish Problem

A newly-released survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights–which we first reported on here–paints a harrowing picture of Jewish life in Europe. The most comprehensive such study of its kind, the report finds that 66 percent of European Jews consider anti-Semitism to be a problem across the EU member states surveyed, while 76 percent say that anti-Semitism has worsened over the last five years in their country. Some of the illustrations of this phenomenon are shocking.
29% of EU Jews have considered emigrating in the past five years “because they did not feel safe as a Jew in the country where they live.” 
More: Tablet Magazine

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