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Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:04 AM Jan 2019

(Jewish Group) 'Raging Crisis' of anti-Semitism Threatens Europe's Jews, Community Leaders Warn

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Jews have a bleak present — and future — in Europe because of anti-Semitism.

That was the unusually pessimistic view outlined by the continent’s Jewish community leaders at the European Parliament’s annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day event.

European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor in a speech read for him raised the possibility of Jews leaving Europe amid rising extremism.

And it wasn’t just European Jewish leaders: Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog called the reality for European Jews “a raging crisis” and said that despite efforts to curb the anti-Semitism, one “can no longer ignore that Jews are unsafe walking the streets of Europe.”

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