This just in.
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (a Putin exile!) was interviewed by “The Guardian”:
Jewish communities across Europe have been grappling with an increase in hate speech, vandalism, harassment and threats since Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza.
“The statistics speak of a rise of hundreds of percentages all over Europe,” said Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, an Orthodox rabbinical alliance.
No, it’s not “an” alliance. The CER calls itself: “the primary Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe”. Wikipedia (who?) calls it: “the voice of Judaism for the European continent”.
Is he really their president? Yes. Read more about the rabbi here…
The Guardian agrees on the facts:
Watchdogs have pointed to a dramatic increase in incidents since October. Rias, which monitors antisemitism in Germany, documented a 320% increase in incidents in the month after 7 October.
Germany, too? Well, I never. Of all places!
French Jews, the earliest in Europe to assimilate (as I recall), also seem unhappy:
The Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) has said that in the three months following Hamas attacks, antisemitic incidents were equivalent in number to those in the previous three years combined.
Of course, just like the Netanyahoo family doctrine, Rabbi Goldschmidt tries (and fails) to get Goyim to sit up and take notice by telling them the rise in antisemitism could “destabilize” European societies. A notion so stupid in both conception and application it defies all discussion. The very fact he needs to resort to persuasion using supposed non-Jewish self-interest speaks volumes.
But actually, the Mezuzah is the real enemy of staying in Galus! Who has an eraser? Again quoting the insightful rabbi:
“One of the most asked questions to the rabbis since October 7 is if you can take off the mezuzah [a religious parchment in a case] off your door,” he said, adding: “This says a lot.”
Other precautions some people were taking included wearing hats instead of the traditional kippah in the street and “when they go into Ubers not speaking Hebrew”, the rabbi said.
But before considering Aliyah (shivers), wait. Wait! Haven’t you all heard of Camozuzah?!
Quoting Hyehudi’s intrepid copy-pasting from a year back:
In Europe, soaring antisemitism popularizes a new invention by Irish Rabbi Zalman Lent: The camouflaged mezuzah, disguised to resemble an alarm sensor!
That’s my Modest Proposal, anyway…
“There used to be a red line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism,” Goldschmidt said. “We have seen this red line disappear.”
Ya think?