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'This must be a wake-up call’: Jewish groups urge European leaders to respond to Amsterdam ‘pogrom’ on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

‘People roaming the streets in masks asking people if they were Jewish then assaulting them and throwing them into canals. This is Europe in 2024’

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Amsterdam's Anton de Komplein square ahead of the UEFA Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv (Getty Images)

A French Gendarmerie officer patrols near the Eiffel Tower adorned with Olympic rings for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 1, 2024. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)

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Denmark calls in army to defend Jewish sites as Danish Chief Rabbi assualted

It comes after an increase in antisemitic incidents in the country amid the Israel-Hamas war

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2T0XJD6 Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior. Solidarity demonstration with Israel "Solidarity with Israel" organized by Jewish Youth, Danish Zionist Federation, KU and DSU at Israels Plads in Copenhagen on Monday 9 October 2023. (Photo: Martin Sylvest/2023)

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Intermarriage among British Jews lower than rest of community outside Israel, figures show

Just under a quarter of Jewish adults in the UK are married to a non-Jewish spouse

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Two orthodox jews are seen arriving are seen arriving at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing in eastern Poland on February 25, 2022, fleeing the conflict in their country, one day after Russia launched a military attack on its neighbour Ukraine. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Jewish cemeteries can be 'outdoor classrooms' shedding light on the past

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Barcelona councillors symbolically defy mayor’s move to un-twin with Tel Aviv

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Asim Qureshi of campaign group Cage gestures as he addresses a press conference in London on February 26, 2015 in which he spoke of the history since 2009 of Kuwaiti-born London computer programmer Mohammed Emwazi, identified by experts and the media as masked Islamic State militant "Jihadi John". "Jihadi John", the masked Islamic State militant apparently responsible for beheading Western hostages, was named on February 26 by experts and the media. The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at London's King's College, a leading resource for studying foreign jihadists, said it believed the identity "to be accurate and correct". AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Europe

'This must be a wake-up call’: Jewish groups urge European leaders to respond to Amsterdam ‘pogrom’ on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

Survey suggests 80% of European Jewish leaders feel less safe than before October 7

Three quarters of European Jews now hide their identity in public

European Jewish leaders warn of rising far-right threat after EU elections

West failing ‘disastrously’ to take out Hamas’s funding networks, says extremism expert

Macron names politician of Jewish heritage as France’s youngest ever prime minister

Hamas terror plot to attack Jews in Europe foiled by police

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