European Governments ‘Failing to Protect Their Jewish Citizens’

INN ^ | 5/25/2014, 4:06 PM | Ari Soffer

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The police investigation is underway into yesterday’s deadly attack on Brussels’ Jewish Museum, but the Jewish community is still very much on edge. Precious little information is available yet as to who precisely was responsible for the shooting which left three people—an Israeli couple from Tel Aviv and a French woman—dead, and another person seriously wounded. […]

[Special Adviser on European Policy to the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Philip] Carmel accused European governments—including Brussels—of not doing enough to stamp out anti-Semitism in general and prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place. More could be done in terms of “intelligence gathering” on hate groups and incitement, for example, as well as “coordination between the security agencies in Europe.” […]

That position was echoed by EJC President Moshe Kantor, who in a statement issued earlier today decried the “laissez-faire attitudes” of European governments towards anti-Semitism. …

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