In the Wall Street Journal, Bojan Pancevski confirms what Rod Dreher has been saying: “As Jews Feel Threatened in Western Europe, the East Offers More Safety.” Violent attacks on Jews are skyrocketing in Westen Europe, and the source of the attacks is the Muslim community.
About 10% of France’s 68 million people are Muslim; the Jewish population totals 400,000, the largest in Europe. According to a December 2023 survey, 45% of French Muslims saw Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel as an “act of resistance against colonization,” and nearly one in five expressed sympathy for it.
It should be no surprise that
Statistics show that anti-Jewish violence has been on the rise in Western Europe for a decade, but it has surged since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s retaliatory invasion of Gaza. In France, the number of antisemitic incidents increased from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, while physical assaults, including stabbings, nearly doubled from 43 to 85. Antisemitic incidents in the U.K. rose from 1,662 to 4,103, with physical attacks increasing from 136 to 266. Only a fraction of such incidents are reported to the police or community agencies, according to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, a British nonprofit.
But Eastern Europe, which rejected Mosel migrants, is safe for Jews. Since October 7
Hungary and Poland, home to around 45,000 and 17,000 Jews respectively, each registered a single violent incident. In the Czech Republic, home to around 5,000 Jews, two incidents were recorded.
When a country has a Muslim population in the millions, a large portion of whom are hostile to Jews, it only requires a miniscule percentage of violent anti-Semites to make life unendurable for the Jewish population.
As I have said before, European countries can have a Muslim minority or a Jewish minority, but if they have both there will be violence. I am beginning to suspect that European elites know this, and secretly hope the Jews will depart. I remember when John Allen, a correspondent at the Vatican, attended functions, he was surprised at the prevalence of casual anti-Semitism. Perhaps the elites of Western Europe have found the Final Solution to the Jewish Question – and they can blame the Moslems, whom they imported en masse.