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How Is That Jew Hunting Is Prevalent Again in Major Metropolitans in the West?

The immediate city of reference is London. But we could go through city after city in the West with similarly distressing anecdotes and trends. Trevor Phillips from Sky News in the U.K.: 30 years ago, I co-wrote a report entitled Antisemitism: A Very Light Sleeper, a phrase coined by the Irish writer, Connor Cruz O’Brien, who warned that it would be awakened again in decades to come. He was right. For example, I was stunned to learn just a few weeks ago that a survey of British university campuses found that one in five students would never want to share a home with a Jewish person…. There are people in this nation right now hunting Jews for no other reason than that they are Jews. Everything else is just a way of justifying their persecution. There’s a grim guessing game being played out in some Jewish households, I’m told. The family debates who among their Gentile friends would have protected them from persecution a century ago, and who would have turned their backs for fear of being ostracized themselves?  The question being asked is, “Would they hide me?” To Jewish families, more than a thousand years of history is bleak evidence that they are right to fear that when the knock on the door comes, they will once again be on their own (Sky News).