An article on the Arutz Seven web site titled Europe: Jewish Life 'Unsustainable' Due to Rising Anti-Semitism (http://tinyurl.com/k5yby8k) reports on the increase in attacks on Jews and things Jewish in Europe and includes mention of the recent anti-Semitic incident in Overland Park near Kansas City KS.
There is a difference that in Europe, the attacks often are made by groups of cowards, attacking lone Jews or Jewish property while in the U.S., attacks typically are made by individual crazies acting alone - as was the case of Frazier Glenn, a/k/a F. Glenn Miller, the Overland Park shooter.
There also is, I suggest, a difference in the mentality of the Jewish population.
In Europe, even after the creation of modern Israel and its military successes, the Jewish mentality still, for the most part, is "don't make waves." Keep a low profile, don't do anything obviously Jewish, don't wear uniquely Jewish apparel - no kippot, not "Jewish" jewelry.
Jews in the U.S., particularly those Jews born post-WW 2, have a "don't tread on me" mentality; push me and I'll push you back - harder.
In Europe, while the Jews are cowering, the neo-nazis and the Islamists are proving their "in you face" attitude is the way to power, if not true respect.
When the Islamists can take over entire neighborhoods in England and impose shiria law on all residents, Moslem or not, this should be a lesson to Jews that cowering only will generate more attacks.
European Jews need a revival of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), Jews who are as "in your face" as the anti-Semites.
Where Jews defend themselves - as in the U.S., even in European-mentality ghettos such as Williamsburg in New York - anti-Semites are "discouraged" from attacking Jews. Where the police cannot or will not do their job, Jews defend themselves.
Call them vigilantes if you will; call them fools who are endangering their lives, but know that their very presence helps protect their fellow Jews.
My Moroccan father-in-law, ע''ה, knew how to deal with anti-Jews (Arabs are Semites, too, so "anti-Semite" seems an inappropriate label for Moslems) and because of that he had their respect both in Morocco and in Israel.
Few people respect cowards or people who behave as cowards as the Jews of Europe behave.
European Jews need to organize into self-defense groups. They need to learn self-defense, be it krav magraw as its taught by Israelis, karate, savate, or other "self-survival" skills and then advertise the fact that they are willing to use these skills if attacked.
Today's laws never will protect a Jew for a pre-emptive strike, but the law should not prevent a Jew from defending his person and his property. If the Jews of Europe don't defend themselves now, they will be unable to legally defend themselves later.
It's difficult to prevent an individual from attacking as Frazier Glenn did in Overland Park KS, but it is easy enough to identify and defend against groups intent on doing damage to Jews and "things Jewish."
There is two options for European Jews:
Option 1: Learn to defend yourselves and then defend yourselves.
Option 2: Move to Israel and let Jews who do know how to defend Jews protect you.
Option 1 is by far the better option if Jews expect to have any future in Europe.
