The German synagogue shooter was a far-right extremist. Here’s why that’s rare in Europe.
BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ OCTOBER 10, 2019
The identity of the German synagogue attacker may have sounded familiar to American Jews, who have endured multiple attacks by far-right extremists over the past year. But the suspect’s identity was more surprising for Jews in Western Europe. The murder of two people in Halle on Yom Kippur was the first lethal anti-Semitic assault in decades in that region by a far-right extremist. Most of the terrorist attacks against Jews there over the past 30 years have been carried out by radical Muslims.
Identitet napadača na njemačku sinagogu možda zvuči poznato za američke Židove koji su imali brojne napada od desnih ekstremista u prošlim godinama. Ali ovaj identitet napadača je iznenađenje za Židove u Europi.
Čovjek koji je ubio dvoje ljudi u Halle, na Yom Kippur, je prvi letalni antisemitski napad u tom području (u cijeloj dekadi) od strane krajnje desnog ekstremista. Većina napadača protiv Židova je ovdje u proteklih 30 godina bila od strane radikalnih Muslimana.
U tom pogledu ovaj pucanj je tragični pokazatelj za Zapadnu Europu da postoji rastuća radikalizacija i među neonacistima i islamistima - znači nastao je opasni antisemitizam i s lijeve i s desne strane, dvostruka opasnost i prijetnja.,...
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The attack in Halle could be a sign that European far-right extremists are ready to again target Jews for lethal violence .Ultranationalists, whose cause has seen a surge in popularity amid popular discontent over the arrival of millions of Muslim immigrants to Europe in recent years, have been preying on other minorities for years, with increasing boldness.
That the Halle shooter perpetrated a terrorist attack on Jews is a sign that “All over the world, far-right, far-left and Islamist fanatics are stoking the flames of Jew-hatred,” Gideon Falter, chief executive of Britain’s Campaign Against Antisemitism group, told JTA.