According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, there have been:
In France, hostility toward Jews has led to a particularly serious wave of attacks. The French police recorded 395 anti-Semitic incidents between 29 March and 17 April. Between 1 January and 2 April, 34 "serious anti-Semitic actions" were recorded, referring to attacks on Jewish persons or property, including synagogues and cemeteries.
In the UK, at least 48 attacks on Jews were reported in April, compared with 12 in March and seven in February. Some of the assaults resulted in the hospitalisation of victims with serious injuries. Reportedly, the victims were mainly orthodox and Hassidic Jews. In the April attack on a London synagogue, a swastika was scrawled on the lectern.
In Belgium, synagogues in Brussels, and Antwerp were firebombed in April; the facade of a synagogue in Charleroi, Southwest Belgium, was sprayed with bullets. A Jewish bookshop and delicatessen in Brussels were destroyed by fire. Criminal investigations have been opened into these incidents, as well as into a physical assault on the Chief Rabbi of Brussels in December 2001.
In April, synagogues were attacked in Berlin and Herford in Germany. In the same month two Orthodox Jews were attacked and slightly injured by a group of people on a shopping street in Berlin after visiting a synagogue.
web.amnesty.org
And WHY should the Jewish community in Europe be outraged when muslims get abused by their racist European hosts? European Jewry is being attacked by North African hoodlums AND the crackers of Europe.
washingtonpost.com
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