Antisemitic Incidents and Attacks Surging Across Europe
By Chris Tomlinson, European Conservative.
Since the massacre of over a thousand Israeli civilians by Hamas on October 7th, the number of antisemitic incidents across Europe has increased drastically as arson attacks have been seen in Austria and Germany, along with Italy, where stones dedicated to victims of the Holocaust were set on fire in Rome.
The two stumbling stones, stones bearing a brass plaque with the names of victims of the Holocaust, dedicated to Michele Ezio Spizzichino and Amedeo Spagnoletto, were damaged earlier this week by unknown vandals who apparently tried to set them on fire, Il Giornale reports.
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri commented on the alleged attack, saying, “Rome condemns this outrage against the stumbling stones,” while Rome’s Chief Rabbi told Italian media that “for us Jews, it is a fault to live and dare to defend ourselves.”
Elsewhere, a pro-Palestine protester tore down the Israeli flag from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which is also based in Rome.
Antisemitic incidents in Italy have not been limited to Rome. Swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti were seen along the Darsena docklands in Milan. In both Milan and Turin, posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas were also torn down.
The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation says that between October 7th and October 30th, at least 42 cases of antisemitism have been reported across Italy.
The Israeli Ambassador to Rome, Alon Bar, has also spoken out about the surge of antisemitism sweeping the country, saying,
The Anti-Semitism Monitoring Centre in Milan has recorded a significant increase in cases of anti-Semitism in Italy. In some cases, in some spaces, including universities, Israeli students who are Jewish citizens felt intimidated.
Antisemitic incidents have been surging, particularly in countries with high populations of Muslim immigrants, such as Germany, where a synagogue in Berlin was the target of an attempted arson and where antisemitic incidents have more than doubled compared to the same period last year.
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