On 1 January 2006 , Britain 's chief rabbi , Lord Jonathan Sacks , warned that what he called a " tsunami of antisemitism " was spreading globally . In an interview with BBC Radio 4 , Sacks said : " A number of my rabbinical colleagues throughout Europe have been assaulted and attacked on the streets . We 've had synagogues desecrated . We 've had Jewish schools burnt to the ground — not here but in France . People are attempting to silence and even ban Jewish societies on campuses on the grounds that Jews must support the state of Israel , therefore they should be banned , which is quite extraordinary because ... British Jews see themselves as British citizens . So it 's that kind of feeling that you do n't know what 's going to happen next that 's making ... some European Jewish communities uncomfortable . " Following an escalation in antisemitism in 2012 , which included the deadly shooting of three children at a Jewish school in France , the European Jewish Congress demanded in July a more proactive response . EJC President Moshe Kantor explained , " We call on authorities to take a more proactive approach so there would be no reason for statements of regret and denunciation . All these smaller attacks remind me of smaller tremors before a massive earthquake . The Jewish community can not afford to be subject to an earthquake and the authorities can not say that the writing was not on the wall . " He added that European countries should take legislative efforts to ban any form of incitement , as well as to equip the authorities with the necessary tools to confront any attempt to expand terrorist and violent activities against Jewish communities in Europe
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