Europe's Jewish communities — most at risk from Europe’s Islamists— becomes the first victim of the policy designed to protect them
The news this week that French authorities had charged a suspect in the 1982 attack on Jo Goldenberg, a Paris Jewish restaurant, reminded me of an early exposure to anti-Jewish hate. On a boyhood visit to Paris, I stared transfixed at the yellow circles painted around bullet holes in the window of another Jewish eatery in the Marais district, attacked a year before Goldenberg.
The impending trial of Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, charged with the attack on behalf of the Abu Nidal Organization, a Palestinian terror group, was a reminder of some other things.
Firstly, just how long Europe — and primarily its Jews — have been threatened by Islamist terror. Long before 9/11, high security was the norm in Jewish communities across the continent.
Second, Abu Zayed’s extradition from Norway is a reminder of Europe’s long-running appeasement of radical Islamists. According to AFP, lawyers for his victims claim that French intelligence guaranteed the group it would not face prosecution so long as it did not carry out any more attacks in France.
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