"Wistrich, the Hebrew
University scholar, for example, says that the atmosphere in Europe has
become so polluted with hatred that Jews will not be able to stay there
much longer.
“Any clear-sighted and sensible Jew, who has a
sense of history, would understand that this is the time to get out,”
he said, adding that, in two to three decades, the Jews’ history in
postwar Europe will have come to an end. “It’s finished,” he said. “It’s
a slow death.” The many efforts to counter anti-Semitism are important
yet Sisyphean in that there is no chance for them to overcome the
ever-strengthening forces of hatred, he said.
“These trends are far more powerful than people even begin to understand,” Wistrich said. “In that respect I’m a fatalist.”
At the same time, he asserted, the Jewish
people will certainly survive the current wave of Jew-hatred. “We’ll
overcome it. The anti-Semitism will go down, eventually, for a while,
and then it will come up again, for new reasons and new circumstances.
And we have to accept that.”
Robert Wistrich
Times of Israel, 8/7/2013
