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AS increasing numbers of Jews worldwide either look to emigrate to Israel, or have already done so, they do so against a backdrop of ever-increasing antisemitism. It is ever-more alarming, given that Jew-hate now no longer manifests itself only in verbal abuse online or in person, but in physical attacks which, according to the latest J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism report, resulted in more than 20 people losing their lives to antisemitic violence last year.
Alarmingly, more than 23,000 antisemitic incidents were recorded during 2025 across America, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Britain. That is a staggering 442-plus a week, or some 64 a day. The report rightly observes that governments need to stop being reactive and begin putting measures in place that will be preventative. The fact that the report declares, “Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge — it is our new normal” should be a matter of shame. Some 81 years after the end of the Second World War, the universal pledge of ‘never again’ that followed amounts to empty words. Not only is ‘never again’ now a meaningless anachronism, we now have real hate in our times; Jew-hate that Holocaust survivors who sought refuge far away from their countries of birth, where they faced unspeakable atrocities, are now horrified to experience in the places they believed to be safe. It is perhaps a small mercy that so few of them are still alive today to face the trauma they believed they had left behind for ever more than eight decades ago. To read more on this story, subscribe to our new e-edition. Go to E-edition.jewishtelegraph.com.
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