Europe: Jews take their dignity and their lives into their hands publicly identifying as Jewish

Via Boston Herald:

On this Hanukkah, known as the Festival of Lights, a celebration of Jewish faith notwithstanding darkness, the painful fact of the matter is this: it doesn’t feel entirely safe to be Jewish because it is not, in fact, entirely safe to be Jewish. In Europe’s once-great capitals, Jews take not only take their dignity but their lives into their hands publicly identifying as Jewish.

This past Thursday, three teenagers in Berlin assaulted a 14-year old, taunting him with anti-Semitic slurs while choking him. This was in Berlin, of all places, Nazism’s seat, whose mayor recently rejected urgent appeals to cancel a conference supporting Hamas, which calls for Israel’s annihilation.

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