European authorities, as usual, refuse to fight the violence running rampant in their streets. Most recently, Amsterdam's mayor, Femke Halsema, banned a rally against antisemitism at the central Dam Square; she said out of concern for Jewish citizens.

After the Amsterdam attacks against Jews and Israelis, during which the police stood by and did nothing, Halsema publicly regretted calling the event a pogrom. Such terms, she said, were "propaganda":

"If I had known that it would be used politically in this way, and also as propaganda... I want nothing to do with that. The Israeli government spoke of a 'Palestinian pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam,' and in The Hague, the words were used to discriminate against Moroccan Amsterdammers – Muslims. That is not what I meant or what I wanted."

In Berlin, Germany, Police Chief Barbara Slowik recently advised gays and Jews to conceal those aspects of their identities in neighborhoods with large Arab populations.

"There are areas of the city, we need to be perfectly honest here, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay to be more careful," she said. "There are certain neighbourhoods where the majority of people of Arab origin live, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups," and are "openly hostile towards Jews".