European Jews Feel Under Threat, Think of Emigrating Finds EU Survey

The Star of David on the facade of a synagogue in Paris on Dec. 10, 2018. Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes

BRUSSELS—More than one in three European Jews have considered emigrating over the past five years because they no longer feel safe amid a surge in anti-Semitism, a European Union study showed on Dec. 10.

The survey in 12 countries that are home to 96 percent of European Jews showed widespread malaise at a rise in hate crimes which Jewish communities blame in part on anti-Semitic comments by politicians that stoke a climate of impunity.