A certain amount of suspicion against the general population and governments of Europe is justified.
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There have been no pogroms, no persecution, no mistreatment of Jews in Europe in modern times. There is only the occasional incident of some skinhead scribbling a swastika every once in a while. Probably some of the swastikas are the work of drunken punks rather than neonazis.
Antisemitism is NOT the same thing as anti-Zionism. There are many Jews who disagree with the concept of Zionism, and many more who disagree with the particularly nasty slant that Netanyahu has stuck it with. AIPAC wants all Americans to believe that publicly chastising anything Israel does, or opposing anything that Israel wants from the US, usually for free, is also antisemitic.
The vast majority of Europeans have no problems with Jewish neighbors, or Jewish educators or politicians. France is led by a Jew of Hungarian origin. The deposed head of the IMF, Strauss-Kahn, currently under arrest for molesting a Black chambermaid, is Jewish. He seems to be the guy Hitler warned everyone about: a lecherous world banker and currency manipulator, abusing innocent women, and the general reaction to this in France was not to depose this guy, but to accuse the NYPD or someone of a mammoth conspiracy against a respected public figure.
It looks to me like Strauss-Kahn is simply a lech, not a typical evil Jewish banker lech, but the utter lack of antisemitic rhetoric against this guy suggests that anti-Semitism of any dangerous sort is really not a part of the modern European mindset.
