Hamas militants murdered 1,200 people

 

Tuesday 7 October Driving the day...  Two years on from October 7th, what has Europe learnt? Other than how quickly “never again” turns into “never mind”?  On October 7th 2023, Hamas militants murdered some 1,200 people in southern Israel—most of them civilians—and injured 4,000 more. A further 251 people were taken hostage. Since then, rather than falling behind Israel in its war against an existential enemy, Europe’s political, media, and cultural classes have oscillated between deranged Israelophobia and outright antisemitism. You saw it everywhere and from every tier of influence. Celebrities declared their allegiance to the pro-Palestine cause. Students and academics from elite universities chanted slogans that implied erasing Israel from the map. Israel and Israelis have been effectively exiled from societies.  In a development that should surprise absolutely no one, antisemitism has skyrocketed in the two years since Hamas’s pogrom in Israel. From the UK to Germany to Paris to Spain, Jewish communities now fear for their safety. The cowardice of Europe’s leaders has put Jews in real danger.  The West turned its back on Israel at an alarming speed. We have left the world’s only Jewish state to fend for itself against an army of Islamist antisemites. And in our own countries, we have failed to protect our own Jewish citizens. Europe should be ashamed of itself.    By Lauren Smith COMMENTARY British Jews: The Canary in Europe’s Coal Mine ROD DREHER If you had ever wondered how you would have behaved as the Nazis began persecuting Jews after they came to power in 1934, now is your chance to find out. Read more...

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