ANTISEMITISM IN EUROPE

Erica Zeman 

Beit Rem-Kabod 

Antisemitism, the hatred towards Jewish people, can be controlled if societies appreciate life!

During the last two weeks we spoke about two journalists, authors and international speakers, which are Melanie Phillips and Douglas Murray.

This week we will zoom into another excellent voice to combat antisemitism, in the person of Gideon Falter, the Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism. Mr. Falter was chosen for this position in 2014 and has since then established a reputation according to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre of ‘being a Jewish hero, who proves that there are still powerful ways to leverage democratic rules to serve justice and protect Jewish community.’ With his degree in U.K., French and European Law, plus with the aid of excellent lawyers, Mr. Falter is the spear head of defending the rights of particularly the British Jewish Communities before Parliament and political platforms against ‘notorious antisemites’.

In his most recent speeches Mr. Falter expressed his deep disappointment with the British government, and the sense of being betrayed and abandoned by the authorities in the aftermath of 7th October 2023 and the murder of two Jewish men during the High Holy Day of Yom Kippur in 2025. He signals the shift from being polite to anger as authorities had not paid attention to frequent warnings. Mr. Falter outlines his demands towards the British Government as follows: 

• Britain has its own intifada and must curb its expansion. Britain must remember its past by defending the Jewish Community as in 1936 during the Battle of Cable Street confronting Oswald Mosley, the leader of the antisemitic Blackshirts British Union Fascist organisation.

• Ban the hate marches against Israel and the Diaspora Jewish Community,

• Ban the Muslim Brotherhood,

(The U.K. and Sweden are the only European countries who have so far not outlawed this terror organisation),

• Stop the radicalisation of Students in U.K. Universities,

• Mr. Falter points out the repercussion of radicalising Students as the United Emirate has according to his knowledge stopped sending students to the U.K. in fear of being exposed to the Muslim Brotherhood influence and agenda.

• He warns of Islam and the far left of being a danger to the country and directs his listeners to be cautious with regards to the antisemitic undertones of the Restore Party supporters and leadership. Mr. Falter describes Rupert Lowe as walking on the fringes of Oswald Mosley in his ‘flirtation with neo-nationalism’.

• With Rupert Lowe’s intension to ban kosher slaughter of animals, Mr. Falter reasons with the fact that this century old Jewish tradition is the most humane act of ending the life of an animal, in contrast to British tradition to see an animal either being torn apart by foxes or by gun bullets.

 Ireland’s new President Catherine Conolly views ‘Free Palestine’ as an equal political partner. Her political ‘Inclusion’ strategy extends itself even as far as to suggest allowing Hamas members being a part of the futuristic re-established ‘Palestine State’. She has forgotten the 7th of October 2023 massacre and genocide against Israel, projecting the terrorism of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the subservient Palestinians on Israel as ‘Terror State.’ During Hitler’s regime Ireland sided with the Nazi leader to such degree as prohibiting British navy ships to use Irish harbours, which so contributed to the death of hundreds of British soldiers. The same adherence to Nazism rises with the terrorism of Palestine and their Iran directed supporters, which Ireland upholds as victims of the Israel-Gazan war. Mrs. Conolly explains her empathy of ‘Free Palestine’ with ignorance and contradiction: ‘I come from Ireland which has a history of colonisation. I would be very wary of telling a sovereign people how to run a state’. The Palestine State is a pretension of acknowledgement, a cloak of European political ambition and is therefore not sovereign. The Sovereign State in the Middle East is Israel, surrounded by 22 Arab and other Muslim nations, in which ‘Palestine’ is lip-serviced publicly recognised, but loaded in its only path of murder and terrorist acts. Mrs. Conolly’s denial of Israel as a Sovereign State leads her to the assumption that she is entitled to lie with derogative statements against the government of Israel as a ‘colonial state’. Israel only inhabits its own ancient historic ground, which is 0.01 % of the whole Middle East.

Switzerland has Jew hatred under control. The 26 cantons need from every citizen active participation in questions of political issues. Immigration of Muslims has been curtailed since 2009, as the referendum vote of Swiss Citizens has more constitutional power than EU laws or demands of Human Rights organisation. Switzerland has set the plan of a clear integration; a ten-year residency before being acknowledged legally as citizen, the fluency of the area spoken language, a non-criminal record, the total absence of prejudice against woman, and the cultural acceptance of a chosen canton. Hijabs and Burqas are banned in Switzerland. 

The interaction between the federal laws and the national political referendums keeps a strict border between the legal and the illegal immigration plans. Switzerland has also shortened the permitted stay in the country from 150 to 30 days and does not hesitate to enforce return by deportation with accelerated bilateral agreements or imprison any detainee with a maximum of 12-18 months incarceration. Entry bans preventing re-entering Switzerland can have the length of 2-3 years.

 Switzerland’s borders are the responsibility of the Swiss Federal Office for Customs and Border Control, and the Swiss Armed Forces are trained for military defence and security purposes. Every Swiss citizen male is listed for conscription as soon as adulthood is reached. Women can join the armed forces voluntarily.

Switzerland’s Jewish population is estimated from 18,000-20,000 people. The country is called one of the safest world-wide. Nevertheless, Switzerland stays on high alert against terrorism. The Swiss-police is assisted by the European wide system of counter terrorism.

In the local areas any planned demonstration must be authorised by the council two weeks before the event. The Jewish General Secretary of Political Affairs Dr. Jonathan Kreutner alerted the authorities in August 2026 that this rule of authorization has not been kept by the Basel for Palestine demonstrators, which made their plan known as resistance to the Zionist First Congress in 1878 and the existence of Israel. The demonstration took place unauthorized on 29th of August 2026. Curses and shouts against Zionism were disrupted by a large presence of police force dispersing this antisemitic demonstration.

Where there is a genuine will to understand us, the Jewish people, as neighbours and friends, then there is a way of peaceful legal, cultural, and social co-existence.