Exodus II: persecuted Jews are fleeing Europe

You're not hearing much about this. The media focus at the moment is on the evil Zionist Jews and the Gaza holocaust, Labour's 'death tax', Tulisa's emotional trauma, and Ebola - the latest pandemic of fear and terror of the earth.

But in the latest International Religious Freedom Report issued by the US Department of State, tucked away amidst the horrors being perpetrated in Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, we find this: 

Throughout Europe, the historical stain of anti-Semitism continued to be a fact of life on Internet fora, in soccer stadiums, and through Nazi-like salutes, leading many individuals who are Jewish to conceal their religious identity.

..Rising anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in parts of Europe demonstrated that intolerance is not limited to countries in active conflict. The European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) survey of perceptions of anti-Semitism among Jews in eight member states (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Sweden and United Kingdom), released in November, found that in some countries as many as 48 percent of the local Jewish population had considered emigrating because of anti-Semitism.

Incredibly, almost half of the Jewish populations in some European countries are so fearful, intimidated and oppressed that they are considering leaving their homes, families and communities and emigrating to a foreign land. Cries of "Death to the Jews" are heard ringing across Europe's towns and cities, as the spectre of Nazi ghettos descends once again. "They pursue the Jews in the streets of Berlin… as if we were in 1938," says Israel's Ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman. He has also heard chants of "Jewish pigs" and "Gas the Jews". "Since March 2012, I am ambassador of Israel in Germany," he said. "If someone had told me that I witnessed such hateful, incites hatred and anti-Semitic phenomena would be in public in this country, I would not probably have thought it possible."

Jews are being advised not to go out onto the streets wearing a kippah. In Toulouse, Jewish children are shot in a Jewish school. In Brussels, people are randomly killed in a Jewish museum: if they happen to be Jews or Israelis, all the better. In Liege, a café displayed a sign in its window which said dogs were welcome, but Jews were not allowed to enter.

This is Christian Europe, which, of all the continents of the world, ought to feel the deepest shame that Jewish cemeteries are being desecrated, Jewish-owned businesses raided, synagogues vandalised and worshippers abused and insulted. Jews are being attacked not because they are diehard supporters of Israel or the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu, but because they are Jews. And the oppressors - in case you didn't know - are thousands of Europe's young, male Muslims. But none dares say so.

To these young male Muslims, the Israeli occupation of Gaza is a certain grievance, but the Jewish occupations of Paris, London and Amsterdam also need sorting. To the media, they may be male; they may be Asian or "of Asian appearance". But no, they may not be called Muslim, for that would cause great offence. These extremists, as we are told, "do not follow any faith".

A survey published in November 2013 by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union observed that Jews across Europe “face insults, discrimination and physical violence, which despite concerted efforts by both the EU and its member states, shows no signs of fading into the past”.

Two-thirds considered anti-Semitism to be a problem across the countries surveyed. Overall, 76% of respondents said that anti-Semitism had worsened over the past five years. 

It is curious, is it not, that we hear so much about the latent anti-Muslim 'racism' inherent in any criticism of Islam or the Qur'an. No matter how reasoned and intelligent the observations may be, they are perceptibly 'Islamophobic' and so 'bigoted' and 'racist'. But it is not permissible to talk about the blatant anti-Semitism inherent in the demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel. The only enlightened discourse is pathologically pro-Palestine and so pro-Hamas.

Of course, it is not anti-Semitic to criticise Israel or to repudiate the policies of the Israeli government. But when that criticism extends to the denial of Israel to defend itself; when it becomes conflated with talk of the "Jewish lobby" and conspiracies about the Jews infiltrating Parliament, owning the media, or running US foreign policy; when it embraces objections to the Jewish State's right to self-determination, then it is unequivocally anti-Semitic. For then it stirs an ancient hatred and whips up an all too recent horror. 

The Jews are leaving Europe not because the Jihadists are coming, but because they are here, dwelling among us. They hate Israel and they loathe Jews, but we say almost nothing and do very little. Instead, we let the Jews emigrate to Israel, and they are doing so in their thousands every year. They may be surrounded there on all sides by the enemies of Zionism. But at least they have a government which will not hesitate to protect and defend them.