Daniel Johnson and Melanie Phillips - Jews, Muslims, and the Crisis of Europe - JLC 2018

Presented by Daniel Johnson and Melanie Phillips at the 2018 Conference on Jews and Conservatism on October 28, 2018.


Last year, British Jews experienced the highest number of anti-Semitic incidents since 1984. In France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and throughout the European continent, Islamist attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions have risen precipitously. Within living memory of the Shoah, Europe’s Jews are again worried for their safety and well-being in nations where they have lived for over one thousand years. Why is this happening? What do the conditions of European Jewry reveal about the character of European nations, the ideals of European politics, and the trade-offs that European leaders are making? And with millions of new Muslim immigrants coming from societies imbued with anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiment joining forces with a resurgent, leftist ideology opposed to Israel and Jewish particularism, do European leaders have a strategy to combat the anti-Semitism in their midst, or is it really time for the Jews of Europe to leave for good? Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson and bestselling author, cultural analyst, and Times columnist Melanie Phillips will survey the European horizon to think hard about the dilemmas confronting the Jewish communities of Britain and Europe, and the fateful choices now confronting European Jews and European leaders.

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