Fearful, Europe’s Jews consider leaving
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More than one in three European Jews have considered emigrating over the past five years because they no longer feel safe amid a surge in anti-Semitism, a European Union study showed yesterday.
The survey in 12 countries that are home to 96 percent of European Jews showed widespread malaise at a rise in hate crimes which Jewish communities blame in part on anti-Semitic comments by politicians that stoke a climate of impunity.
Feelings of insecurity were particularly acute among Jews in France, followed by Poland, Belgium and Germany, the study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) found.
Facing hostility online and at work or in graffiti scrawled on walls near synagogues, nine out of 10 Jews living in nations which have been their home for centuries feel that anti-Semitism has worsened over the past five years
“It is impossible to put a number on how corrosive such everyday realities can be,” FRA’S director Michael O’Flaherty was cited as saying in a foreword to the study.
“But a shocking statistic sends a clear message ... more than one third say that they consider emigrating because they no longer feel safe as Jews.”
EU officials presenting the report in Brussels yesterday called on governments to do more to combat such hate, including commemorating the history of the Holocaust in which the Nazis killed at least 6 million Jews in Europe during World War II.
“What we need now is concrete action in the member states to see real change for Jews on the ground,” European Commission deputy head Frans Timmermans told reporters.
“There is no Europe, if Jews don’t feel safe in Europe.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn are among the most prominent EU leaders battling accusations of anti-Semitism by Jewish community leaders.
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