Jews in Belgium

Via Dhimmi Watch, a piece on anti-semitism in Belgium (also mentioning Abu Jabah and the Arab European League, who I posted about here):

[M]ore than the constant violence, there is also a growing malaise for Belgian Jews who are afraid to live their Judaism fully and openly. Kids attending Jewish schools are frequently harassed and need to be protected by the police. The Member of Parliament and Mayor of Forest, a town in suburban Brussels, Corinne De Permentier, is appalled that two Jewish organizations had to leave her town because of the constant threats. She added that:” It is crazy that a community needs to be permanently protected by the police in a democratic country.”
A couple of other politicians are complaining that the Belgian government is not doing enough in terms of protection because in most of the cases, no arrests have ever been made….

Obviously, in such an environment, it is not a good time to be a Jew in Europe. That is surely why, when Elie Wiesel was in Berlin a few months ago for a conference on anti-Semitism, he was asked by close Jewish European friends a revealing new question. For the first time ever, it was not “Should we leave Europe?” but “When should we leave?”