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Boguslav is a city in Ukraine, but the Jewish gravestones paving its streets are hardly unique to this city.
Your friendly reminder when Jews say European civilization was built with our blood that it's not a metaphor. https://twitter.com/edolinsky/status/1283047943650541577
Your friendly reminder when Jews say European civilization was built with our blood that it's not a metaphor. https://twitter.com/edolinsky/status/1283047943650541577
Here's how they treat Jewish graves in my native Belarus. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/belarus-court-okays-building-of-apartments-atop-former-jewish-cemeteries-503508
In Poland, the right wing president running for reelection determined it was a winning issue to give a middle finger to Jews. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ahead-of-election-polish-president-rejects-jewish-compensation-claims/
In Lithuania, which bills itself as a friend of the Jews and Israel, the government devotes resources to building Jewish museums. They still celebrate our butchers. https://www.jta.org/2020/06/29/global/in-lithuania-lawmakers-want-to-dedicate-2021-to-honoring-alleged-perpetrator-of-a-holocaust-pogrom
Easter was historically a holiday that Jews in many parts of Europe dreaded. Christians were whipped up into fits during sermons and passion plays, and Jews paid for it with their lives.
Anyway a Romanian priest compared Jews to a virus this past Easter. https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-priest-in-romania-accused-of-likening-jews-to-virus-in-easter-greeting/
Anyway a Romanian priest compared Jews to a virus this past Easter. https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-priest-in-romania-accused-of-likening-jews-to-virus-in-easter-greeting/
Hungary's government hates Jews. That's the tweet. https://www.thejc.com/comment/opinion/hungary-s-jews-do-feel-fear-under-victor-orban-and-they-have-good-reason-1.472938
Prague has a long Jewish history. Every rock you overturn has a story. For Jews, few of them are pretty. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/12/prague-tv-tower-antisemitic-tourist-attraction-jewish-presence-campaigners
The happy news in Germany for the Jews is that the Nazis millions of Germans voted into their parliament aren't looking too great in the polls. https://www.ft.com/content/ceabc4df-3807-4ea8-984c-beabb3b866cb
The Swiss happily helped the Nazis rob Jews of their wealth during WW2, which financed the Holocaust and the Nazi war effort.
Of course, that was a unique moment in history and certainly not an indictment of their broader attitude towards Jews. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/50-percent-of-swiss-jews-faced-antisemitic-abuse-in-past-five-years-study-633865
Of course, that was a unique moment in history and certainly not an indictment of their broader attitude towards Jews. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/50-percent-of-swiss-jews-faced-antisemitic-abuse-in-past-five-years-study-633865
France is the cultural beating heart of Europe. It's also home to the continent's largest remaining Jewish community.
I could keep this thread going with literally - literally - thousands of examples but I think you get the point.
Please remember it when someone tells you that antisemitism is minor, a thing of the past, or that Jews are overreacting when public figures promote hatred of us.
Please remember it when someone tells you that antisemitism is minor, a thing of the past, or that Jews are overreacting when public figures promote hatred of us.
