[ April 18, 2024 ]
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What do Paris and Malmö, Marseille and Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam have in common? Yes, all these cities belong to the European Union. But they also share a dark feature: in these cities, the kippah, the Jewish symbol par excellence, is disappearing.
It just happened again in Paris, where two Jews have been attacked with hacksaws; both suffered cuts during the struggle. They both wore a kippah. They were a target.
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The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights revealed that a third of the Jews of the Old Continent has stopped wearing religious symbols because of fear of attacks. The president of the Jewish Consistory of Marseille, Zvi Ammar, asked the Jews “not to wear the yarmulke in the street so as not to be recognized as Jews.” The same appeal was addressed to the Jews of Denmark: it was dangerous in Denmark in 1943; it is still in 2017.
The Jews in Marseille, where the community has been asked to avoid wearing the kippah, live in a nightmare: they go to synagogue at groups of 10 or 15 to better defend themselves; there are mothers, when going shopping in Hebrew stores, who leave their children in the car with someone else; the 22 Jewish schools and synagogues are monitored by the military; and parents have organized patrols around schools. I have seen the same level of security and protection only in the brave Israeli enclaves in Judea and Samaria.
“It is better you wear another hat,” said Josef Schuster, chairman of the board of the Jews of Germany. And the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam urged students not to wear the kippah out on the street. The Jewish community of Norway has adopted “invisibility” as a way to live safely. The same thing is happening in Sweden and Belgium. Jewish symbols are disappearing all over Europe.
There are whole areas of Europe where it is better not to be recognized as Jewish. It is happening today, not in the 1930s. “The European Jewish community is dying,” said Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the world’s leading expert on the Talmud. The Jewish community in Norway spends half of its budget on security. “Are Jews abandoning Antwerp?,” headlines De Standaard. The Belgian newspaper predicts that in fifty years there will be no more Jews living in the city.
Even in Finland, where a small but historic Jewish community has always lived in peace, the Jewish community has issued a directive asking its members not to wear the kippah in public. In Malmö, Sweden, the situation is even more dramatic: the Jews there live like Christians in Mosul.
In Paris, Jews are advised to “walk in groups,” never alone. In the Netherlands, the country of Baruch Spinoza and where the Spanish Jews during the Inquisition, a group of Jewish girls of the same age as Anne Frank, the author of Holocaust “Diary,” told the daily Het Parool that they never leave home with the Star of David around their necks. Standing in front of the famous Portuguese synagogue of Amsterdam, built in 1675, in a period in which the Netherlands welcomed the Jews from all over the world, today is “not safe.”
It is a dramatic phenomenon: first, the kippah disappears in the streets, then the Jews themselves flee these societies. 40,0000 Jews have left France in the last fifteen years, one-tenth of the whole French population. In the tolerant, liberal and democratic West, where Muslim minorities have become more and more assertive, Jews have become more and more “invisible.”
The European Jewish Congress has publicized a shocking poll: “A third of the European Jews think of emigrating.” That is 700,000 people. The future of Europe’s Jewish community probably lies in Israel. I am happy for my Israeli friends who will receive this wave of educated and good immigrants. But what’s left to Europe? Burqas instead of kippahs?
It is as if the best way to stop Islamic violence is to withdraw, step aside, hide, and do everything to avoid triggering a possible action against us. The cultural retreat of the West unfortunately recurs in every day’s news, and the retreat is turning into a surrender. We must stop whistling in the dark. We cannot accept retreating without moving a finger, without fighting, without protesting, without sounding an alarm bell. A Jew hiding the symbols of his identity for fear of being recognized as a Jew is the perfect representation of a world that forces the West to hide itself for fear of provoking the reaction of those who want to stab us.
The vanishing cross from Mosul pointed at the Islamization of the ancient Mesopotamia, as the disappearance of the Jewish symbol reveals Europe’s submission to Islam.
Giulio Meotti, cultural editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author. He is the author of three books: A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism (Encounter Books); J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel (Mantua Books), and La fine dell’Europa, about the Christian and demographic decline in Europe. He is a columnist at Arutz Sheva and his writings have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, FrontPage, Commentary, and The Geller Report.
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38 Comments
7 years ago
The religion of peace strikes again.
7 years ago
Here’s a symbol of faith Jews of Europe will be wearing again !!!
The new DNC co-chair will especially enjoy it’s return !!!
7 years ago
If one understands reality, the loss of European Jews and the impact of Muslim demographics means two major losses for Europe, the first the result of the diminished Jews’ contributions to humanity, the second the refusal of Muslims to integrate, the impending destruction of European culture over time as the 8th century mindset of Islam begins its destruction of Europe – by century’s end, Europe as we have known it will come to resemble the failed states of the Middle East – a pity since Europeans have been warned of this trend for years without ever educating themselves on the magnitude of the threat – RIP what once was
7 years ago
Reply to
D L Cohen
Western countries are foolishly “trading” educated, integrated, assimilated, law abiding, tax paying citizens for uneducated, unemployable, criminally violent, welfare-sucking immigrants, who have no ability or intention of integrating or assimilating. What could possibly go wrong?
7 years ago
Western europe is an islamic caliphate waiting to be declared, what you’d be expect from islam? Jews and Christians are selected along with all other non muslims for murder. It is very simple, if islam is not destroyed, it will destroy, western europe is dead.
7 years ago
Reply to
Semur Jengkol
You really don’t pay much attention do you, I live in Canada’s north, it isn’t that far.Western europe will be a parched desert with diseased starving muslims fighting sheep for roots. You might want to consider moving to oman, where your muslim brothers will take care of you.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Suspect it is very bad in southern Ontario, in the north, there are a few muslims, but like everyone else, spend their time not freezing to death. Overall I think America has it worse baed on higher concentrations of muslims and a very sympathetic black submissive population that are inclined to be against anything seen as normal.
D
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I noticed that at Lake Tahoe a some years ago, that while the SF Bay Area with its mild climate was teeming with street criminals and homeless, the freeze every winter seemed to keep Tahoe clear of such problems for the most part, though only a few hours drive away from SF.
7 years ago
It’s something natural ….
Judaism is outdated tribalistic religion only to live on certain period of time …
Many many jews converted to islam …. a universal abrahamic religion ….
Can muslims become jews ?? …. of course … DNA transplantation technology is available today ….
hehehehe….
7 years ago
Reply to
Semur Jengkol
Your Djinn called, he wants his flying carpet back and his buttless leather trousers.
7 years ago
Reply to
Semur Jengkol
“a universal abrahamic religion”…..complete B…S…It is a religion based on lies with Satan referred to as Allah…Read Genesis chapter 17 in the bible…
7 years ago
Reply to
spfg
I’ll pick the next version of the bible … which will accommodate 21st century lifestyles ..
7 years ago
Reply to
Semur Jengkol
Islam is an outdated tribalistic religion designed to enrich Mohammed and his other Mafia members. Muslims attack Jews. How many scientific/medical/economic/cultural movements are related to Islam? NONE
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
1. Western’s Supreme Court legalized inter-butt marriage ..
2. NATO invade Afghanistan in 2003
3. Bacha Bazi pervert tradition sprung back into existence after Taliban ousted by Nato invasion ..
Can you connect the dots ???? hehehehehehehehehehe….
7 years ago
Reply to
Semur Jengkol
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehe, except for the fact muhamMUD enjoyed sucking the tongues and penises of little boys and the fact Afghani muslum men have been molesting little boys for centuries.
Ancient Afghani poem:
Across the river I see a boy
with buttocks like a peach
alas, I cannot swim.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
such a gross perversion ….
btw ….can those perverts migrate to your countries so their passion for butt related activities will be celebrated and accommodated ??
I can imagine they will be welcomed with big banner:
“”..Welcome to our butt land …Enjoy your butt life here ….””
hehehehe….
7 years ago
Reply to
Semur Jengkol
Hehehehehehehehehe, which is why Iranian, Afghani and Pakistaini men love little boy butt Semen and it’s all completely legal.
7 years ago
Reply to
Semur Jengkol
“An outdated tribalistic religion ” only existing through coercion, physical and psychological threat and fear of sadistic torture and death for any Muslim trying to leave. How well you describe your religion. I rather like this description, too “Muslims being poor and uneducated, are much more reproductive than others. ” http://faithfreedom.org/oped/sina31103.htm I suppose one can only contribute within one’s capabilities.
7 years ago
Reply to
Erica Ling
I hope you’re not using your real name here. It’s a bad idea, especially if you live in the United Kaliphate.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
I may be a mere woman, only half the worth of a man, but I aint that silly ! Especially with family to shield. What a sad reflection on this 21st century and our advancement of human rights.
7 years ago
It would seem, it’s happening again. And all because of ‘liberals’, never letting us forget it. How ironic.
7 years ago
The Jews in Europe are the canaries in the coal mine. Political leaders better pay attention.
7 years ago
And soon it will be Christians joining them by not wearing their crosses in fear of attacks unless all civilized people rise up and purge their countries of these vermin called Islam.
7 years ago
Reply to
James Stamulis
We have had our moments. How’s this for irony ?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9158234/Russian-conglomerate-to-boycott-British-goods-over-crosses-at-work-ban.html
7 years ago
How could you miss Kim Kardashian’s boobs and the Oscars fiasco ? Sacrilege !
7 years ago
Jews should leave Europe, to its own destruction. It deserves the muslims it gets.
6 years ago
Racist Muslim hating Jews should be sentence to life servitude to there superior Islamic masters !
