Antisemitism Is Back — Except It Never Left

Europe Is Eating Its Jews Alive

Europe always swears it’s learned from history. “Never again,” they say, while polishing Holocaust memorial plaques and posing solemnly for Instagram. But the same continent is once again turning into a carnival of Jew-hatred — only this time with hashtags, NGOs, and airline safety briefings as accomplices.

And let’s be clear from the top: I’m not Jewish. I don’t wear a kippa, I don’t light Shabbat candles, and I don’t have relatives buried in Auschwitz. Which makes it even more absurd that I, a non-Jew, feel more outrage than most European leaders who seem to treat antisemitism as a scheduling nuisance.

Liberty, Equality, and Daily Hate Crimes

France in 2025 looks less like a republic and more like a police blotter. Just one month — August into September — reads like a horror calendar:

1. 29/08 – Neuilly: Man with a knife threatens to “kill Jews” outside a synagogue.

2. 30/08 – Marseille: Woman called a “dirty Jew” outside a synagogue.

3. 30/08 – Marseille: Rabbi verbally abused outside another synagogue.

4. 30/08 – Lyon: Shoah Memorial vandalized.

5. 30/08 – Marseille: Kids leaving Selihot prayers harassed by a man screaming “Free Palestine” and “F*** Israel.”

6. 31/08 – Marseille: Posters honoring Ilan Halimi torn down; a passerby who objected was assaulted.

7. 03/09 – Toulouse: Man arrested wearing a “Kippa Snatcher” T-shirt.

8. 04/09 – Strasbourg: Woman called a “filthy Zionist” on the tram.

9. 04/09 – Nice: Pro-Hamas activists storm the Chabad House during an Aliyah fair.

10. 05/09 – Nice: Rabbi attacked.

11. 06/09 – Paris: Jewish doctor’s plaque defaced, stickers plastered over his door during a protest.

12. 07/09: Jewish-owned hearing centre vandalized with graffiti.

13. 10/09 – Paris: Jewish shopkeeper threatened: “Filthy Zionists, we’re going to slaughter you all.”

14. 11/09 – Paris: Graffiti outside a Jewish school.

15. 14/09 – Marseille: Man shouts he’ll “stab all the Zionists.”

16. 15/09 – Paris: Jewish students expelled from university WhatsApp groups: “Zionists not welcome.”

17. 18/09: 75-year-old Jewish woman beaten in her apartment and called a “dirty Jew.”

18. 19/09 – Paris: Three women assaulted at a Raphaël Enthoven book signing.

19. 20/09 – Strasbourg: Another rabbi attacked.

20. 26/09 – Choisy: Synagogue defaced.

21. 27/09 – Yerres: Jewish man wearing a kippa beaten on Shabbat.

That’s one month. One country. And anyone still insisting antisemitism in Europe is an “occasional flare-up” should probably get their head examined.

The Rabbi Bitten Like an Animal

March 2025 gave us the image no one can unsee: Rabbi Arié Engelberg in Orléans, bloodied and bruised, after being punched, kicked, and literally bitten on the shoulder in front of his nine-year-old son. Yes, bitten — like an animal marking prey. The attacker was 16. Macron condemned the act, investigations were opened, the courts processed it. And yet Jews are still getting mauled on French sidewalks.

September 29: Paris Goes Full Pogrom

Then came Paris, September 29, 2025. A Haredi man was brutally assaulted in central Paris — nose broken, orbital bone fractured, hospitalized. This wasn’t a bar fight. It was a Jew, targeted in broad daylight, in Europe’s self-proclaimed “capital of culture.” The suspect fled but was later arrested.

Germany: From Memorials to Mayhem

Meanwhile in Germany — the country that should be allergic to antisemitism — February brought something grotesque: a stabbing at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. Federal prosecutors say the motive was radical Islamist antisemitism. Yes, at the very site meant to teach “never again.” Berlin authorities responded with the same recycled advice Jews have heard for decades: don’t be too visible.

Britain: “Openly Jewish” as a Crime Scene

Britain joined the absurdity in April 2024, when London police told an “openly Jewish” man — their words, not mine — that his kippa might provoke a pro-Palestinian march. They even threatened him with arrest. Public outrage followed, and embarrassed officials apologised twice. The Home Office clarified that no, being Jewish is not a provocation. Apparently, it had to be spelled out.

Universities: Safe Spaces for Everyone Else

On campus, Professor David Hirsh nailed it: saying Israel isn’t committing genocide is enough to ruin your career. Professors risk funding and publication; students risk harassment for holding vigils. Goldsmiths University in London formally apologised in June 2025 after an inquiry found years of antisemitic bullying so bad the Jewish Society dissolved for safety reasons.

The Arts: Cowardice on Stage

Europe’s cultural world now acts as the epicentre of moral cowardice. Film festivals boycott Israeli directors while happily screening Iranian regime-approved cinema. In Switzerland, Eurovision crowds waved Hamas flags at an Israeli singer who survived October 7. A young woman who sang her way back from trauma was heckled by people cheering throat-slitting gestures. And Europe clapped politely.

The Media: Hamas’s Press Office in London and Paris.

The BBC, Le Monde, and Al Jazeera’s European desks are busy laundering Hamas propaganda as if it were news. Jonathan Sacerdoti exposed how the BBC broadcast a Gaza documentary centred on a “child influencer” — who turned out to be the son of a Hamas politician. Another “volunteer medic” was a pre-teen whose haircut changed four times during what was supposedly one day’s footage. Either the BBC was duped, or complicit. Pick your poison.

And when it comes to casualty figures, the Genocide Debunked study makes it clear: Hamas manipulates numbers, starvation claims collapse under scrutiny, and Israel’s war conduct — while brutal because urban warfare always is — does not fit the “genocide” lie. But Europe’s media doesn’t do scrutiny. It does scripts.

Politicians: From Useful Idiots to Paid Apologists

Spain’s Podemos, Ireland’s Sinn Féin, parts of UK Labour — all too happy to parrot Hamas talking points. NGOs funded by European taxpayers promote “context” that reads like Hamas press releases. And European leaders keep writing the cheques.

Malmö, Amsterdam, and Beyond

In Malmö, the Jewish community openly warns it may vanish within years. In Amsterdam, masked mobs chased Israeli football fans through the streets after Ajax–Maccabi; five hospitalised, dozens arrested, and courts later secured convictions. In Paris this spring, the Holocaust Memorial and two synagogues were smeared with green paint in a coordinated stunt. Everywhere, the message is the same: Jews, hide or go.

The Real Message

The message is no longer coded. It’s shouted at school gates, graffitied on synagogue walls, chanted in city squares:

• If you’re Jewish and silent, maybe we’ll tolerate you.

• If you’re Jewish and visible, you’re a target.

• If you’re Jewish and love Israel, you’re marked for violence.

Europe didn’t forget its Jews. It’s driving them out again. Last time it was trains. This time it’s planes denied, rabbis bitten, doctors’ doors defaced, kippot torn off in the street. Same message.

Why I Care

Again: I am not Jewish. Which means my outrage doesn’t come from personal fear. It comes from shame that this is what Europe has become. Jews are the canary in the coal mine. If Europe can’t keep them safe, nobody’s safe. Today it’s “filthy Zionist” graffiti; tomorrow it’s your own neighbours.

Antisemitism is the world’s oldest hatred because it adapts. From “Christ-killers” to “capitalist bankers” to “colonial settlers,” the script changes, the target remains. And Europe shrugs — until it’s too late.

The Curtain Is About to Fall

History isn’t just repeating. It’s rhyming, loudly, in Paris, Berlin, London, Malmö, Amsterdam. Unless good people stop excusing, stop telling Jews to hide, stop pretending this is about “policy,” the curtain falls again.

This time, maybe rise before it does.