The warning from Trump’s envoy: “The Iranians marked Jews as a target”

Rabbi Yehuda Kaplon, the US special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, participated in a briefing held in Brussels for European ambassadors and senior diplomats at the initiative of Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the Association of Jewish Organizations in Europe (EJA). The event took place against the background of the Israeli-American war in Iran, and in the shadow of recent reports of attempts to harm Jewish communities and Israelis around the world.

During the briefing, which dealt with the ongoing crisis of anti-Semitism throughout the continent, the participants discussed the tools needed to combat hatred against the Jews and Israelis and how cooperation between Europe and the United States should be increased in order to eradicate it. Ambassador Kaplon urgently called on the European diplomats to convey the message to their governments that the security around the Jewish communities in the countries of the continent should be immediately increased after a wave of attacks on synagogues in Europe and in the USA during the last week. “We must not live in an illusion. The Iranian regime sees every Jewish community as a target and this should not surprise anyone. We are witnessing a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe and around the world,” Kaplon said.

“Our meeting was held shortly after another Jewish community, the community of the city of Rotterdam, was the target of an arson attempt,” said EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin. “And this event joins a series of serious incidents that raise fear and concern among the Jews, both in Europe and in the United States.”

As you may recall, with the start of Operation “Harry’s Roar”, the National Security Headquarters issued a broad warning to the Israeli public living abroad and called on them to exercise extra caution in every destination in the world. The official announcement stated that there is a real fear of attempts to attack Israeli and Jewish targets in the reporting period. and Jews outside the country’s borders. At the same time, the security authorities indicated that additional terrorist elements and even individual threats may try and take advantage of the tensions to carry out attacks.