By László Bernát Veszprémy, European Conservative.
Reality should not be sugarcoated: Jewish communities are experiencing a major crisis again, only comparable to that of the 1930s.
I have been actively researching the situation of European antisemitism for nearly ten years; I began my first research project, which focused on antisemitism in England, in 2015. Since then, I have published a detailed report—in Hungarian—on antisemitism in the Netherlands, written several essays in English on antisemitism and Holocaust denial in Europe, and in 2021, I published a monograph in Hungarian on the issue of antisemitism and mass Muslim migration, which is still awaiting a translator and a publisher in English. It is in this context that I share my thoughts: never—not even when writing my 2021 book—did I imagine that events in the diaspora would escalate so rapidly and to such a degree.
I already wrote in my 2021 book that we are on the verge of a new wave of antisemitism, and I also predicted that pogroms could be expected in Western and Northern European cities, and possibly in American cities as well. But I thought my predictions would be validated in 10 to 20 years. I also wrote that European Jewry would come under pressure simultaneously from the far right, the far left, and from Muslims. But I did not believe at the time that masses would be cheering on the perpetrators of pogroms, or that there are in fact this many violent antisemites living among us. I also did not predict that there would be such a lack of empathy in Western societies towards the fate of their Jewish compatriots. I would never have expected that, after a massacre like that of October 7, sympathy rallies would be organised all around the world, not for the Israeli victims, but for the mass murderers of Hamas.