Solidarity against savagery: the aftermath of the Copenhagen synagogue attack. Flickr / Kim Bach. Some rights reserved.
The brutal killings in the kosher supermarket in Paris in January and outside the synagogue in Copenhagen last month remind us, if we needed reminding, of the ever-present threat of anti-Semitic violence in Europe. That the victims were killed for no other reason than they were Jewish is a moral outrage which demands universal condemnation.
The idea that this condemnation could be somehow watered down or offset in the light of Israel’s actions against the Palestinians is not only morally reprehensible but itself anti-Semitic. By mobilising the predicate ‘Jew’ and thus suppressing all individual and even collective differences within the Jewish community, such virulent racism has to be seen for what it is.
