(JEWISH GROUP) Do Jews have a future in Europe? A historian of antisemitism has her doubts. (long read)

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Over the last two months, there have been more than a dozen attacks on Jewish institutions across Europe. Two of the highest-profile attacks were in London, where two people were stabbed last month, in the same Jewish neighborhood where arsonists torched four Jewish-run ambulances in March.

There have also been attacks in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany.

Claiming responsibility for many of the incidents is a shadowy group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, which counterterrorism officials say may have ties to Iran.

But even if the attacks are part of an Iranian plot to destabilize the West, they seem to many of Europe’s Jews as just the latest chapter in a long and all-too-familiar story. Long before American Jews began to fortify their institutions, European synagogues resembled heavily guarded embassies in hostile countries. In France, which has seen some of the deadliest attacks on Europe’s Jews, Jews have been asking if they should stay or go for years. Many have left.

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