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Manfred Gerstenfeld

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is a senior research associate at the BESA Center and a former chairman of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He specializes in Israeli-Western European relations, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and is the author of “The War of a Million Cuts.”

The strengths and weaknesses of the Jewish state are hard to assess. It has a great deal of both hard and soft power, but underperforms diplomatically when it comes to combating anti-Israel propaganda.
The dismay expressed by many at the killing of Iranian commander and arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani seems to suggest that the democratic West has descended into decadence.
Right-wing Dutch senator Toine Beukering said earlier this month that the Jews were “chased like docile lambs into the gas chambers.” This remark, for which he later apologized, once again raised the issue of the huge historical distortion of the Dutch role during World War II.
The forthcoming investigation of Labour by the Equality and Human Rights Commission is likely to provide one of history’s most profound analyses of anti-Semitism within a single organization.
Domestic security agency’s official report is unprecedented not only in Germany, but in all of Europe. The report makes it clear, at long last, that Muslim anti-Semitism is a major problem in Germany.
The Labour Party has 500,000 members, enough people to fill a medium-sized city. Yet when the party receives complaints about anti-Semitism, they mainly concern elected officials or activists.
Almost nobody in Europe who is not Jewish has dared to state the truth: Anti-Semitism is an integral part of European culture. The history of many E.U. member states is characterized far more by the anti-Semitism interwoven within it than by democracy.
Though anti-Semitism in Belgium is widespread and has many facets, it gets little international attention. Two current issues have changed this somewhat.
As her tenure at Germany’s helm is drawing to a close, the media has started to analyze her performance and speculate about her legacy.