article_snippet: (CNN)Thirty years or so ago, the synagogue in Washington DC where I was attending Yom Kippur services received a bomb threat.
article_snippet: Jewish, Israeli -- and American -- sites were targets of some of the most notorious attacks: from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, to plane and cruise ship hijackings, to attacks on airports, synagogues, and simply places where Jews congregated, such as the Jo Goldenberg kosher deli in Paris, where six died and 22 were wounded in a bloody attack in August 1982.
article_snippet: A dozen years later, the daughter of friends was killed in another Palestinian attack there.
article_snippet: The main synagogue in Rome has been under tight guard since Palestinian attackers threw hand grenades and sprayed machinegun fire at worshippers after services in October 1982, killing a toddler and wounding dozens.
article_snippet: I don't want to discount the gravity and horror of recent terror attacks against Jewish targets in Europe, such as in Copenhagen and Paris.
article_snippet: To be sure, Jews are being targeted.
article_snippet: But it is important to recognize that Jews are being targeted as part of a violent campaign against western democracies and western values in general.
article_snippet: Anti-Semitism takes many forms.
article_snippet: Criticism of Israel is legitimate (and sometimes necessary), but Criticism of Israel can, and sometimes does, cross the line.
article_snippet: Jews in Europe have been regarded -- and scapegoated -- as surrogates for Israel for decades.
article_snippet: In 1967-68, after Israel defeated Arab states in the Six-Day War, Poland's communist regime staged an "anti-Zionist" campaign that forced most of the remaining Jews out of Israel.
article_snippet: At least 13,000 Jews emigrated, according to Dariusz Stola, who is now the director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
article_snippet: This was -- and remains -- by far the most widespread episode of anti-Semitism in post-Holocaust Europe.
article_snippet: Twenty years later, in 1988, a report by the Anti-Defamation League warned that a significant number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States now reflected "a politically-related anti-Israel component.
article_snippet: Particularly worrisome, a report by the Anti-Defamation League said, were Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses.
article_snippet: The Nazis, followed by Communist rule in half of the continent, almost succeeded in making Europe Judenrein.