Europe Can’t Fight Antisemitism While Ignoring Threats to Israel

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Europe Can’t Fight Antisemitism While Ignoring Threats to Israel

Europe Can’t Fight Antisemitism While Ignoring Threats to Israel

December 14, 2020

POLITICO Europe

By David Harris

 

Dear European Union, we have to talk about a major foreign policy blind spot: your relations with Israel.

Countless times, I have heard European leaders, on commemorative anniversaries and at memorial sites, express their anguish over the Holocaust, the extermination of 6 million European Jews and the fertile European soil that nurtured anti-Semitism over centuries. I have heard them vow repeatedly, “never again.”

I don’t for a moment minimize these statements and gestures. To the contrary, they are extremely important, all the more so as anti-Semitism is again on the rise in Europe and knowledge of the Holocaust declines.

But — and it’s a big but — too many European leaders are not connecting this painful past to present policies.

 

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