When Jews around the world observe Passover beginning this week, the holiday that commemorates freedom and liberty will come at a time when anti-Semitism across Europe is at its highest point since the Holocaust.
While the conflict between Israel and Palestinians serves as kindling for anti-Semitism in European cities, the continent needs little cajoling. Millenia before the founding of modern Israel, from the Roman scorched earth policy against the ancient Jews onwards, state- and church-sanctioned anti-Semitism were woven as tightly into the European fabric as the aristocracy and feudal system.
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