Three days after the antisemitic attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, that cost fifteen people their lives and left more than forty wounded, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen put the fight against antisemitism at the heart of the speech she gave at the Euro-Hanukkah celebration on Wednesday, 17 December.
Mentioning that [things have] “grown dark” and that an “old evil” has returned, she denounced a climate in which too many Jews no longer dare to...