“Decline,” the late writer Charles Krauthammer famously observed, “is a choice.” Many in Europe are making it. And there are worrying signs that it will cross the Atlantic and find a home here.
Antisemitism has been mainstreamed in much of Europe, with disastrous and deadly results.
In 2024, Germany’s Federal and Research Point for Antisemitism recorded a shocking 77 percent increase in documented antisemitic incidents from the previous year. In the United Kingdom, the Community Security Trust recorded the second-highest total ever recorded. According to the CST, there was an astonishing 465 percent rise in incidents in higher education in just the first half of 2024 alone.
In France, Belgium, and elsewhere, Jewish schools and synagogues often exist only under armed guard. This is tragic. But it isn’t surprising. Anti-Jewish violence has skyrocketed through much of the Western world. And it is worth asking why.
(Read the rest of CAMERA’s Nov. 5, 2025 Washington Times Op-Ed here)