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The resurgence of antisemitism in Western Europe: Echoes of history and the erosion of civilizational resolve.

Lars Møller | March 6, 2026

From Wikimedia Commons: Artwork from the Theresienstadt ghetto (Bedřich Fritta, between 1942 and 1943)

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, decrying the infernal machinery of antisemitism, Western Europe proclaimed: “Never again.” Thus, reconstructed on the scaffolds of democracy, human rights, and enforced remembrance, the war-torn societies appeared immune to the ideological epidemic that nearly uprooted civilization after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. 

Yet, as the 21st century descends into deeper twilight, a malignant resurgence of racial conspiracism has metastasized, tragically evident in militarized barricades around synagogues, ferocious chants by marching protesters, and censorship in academia.

The contemporary surge in antisemitism arises not only from exogenous poisons but also from endogenous corruption: the willful erasure of historical memory, the apostasy from Christian roots, and the capitulation to a pernicious alliance of socialist and Islamist forces. Paralleling the Nazi epoch’s depravities, unchecked mass immigration, pedagogical incompetence, and doctrinal subversion have conspired to dismantle the Judeo-Christian edifice of Western civilization—a foundation profoundly infused with Jewish theology and philosophy, from monotheistic imperatives to ethical dialectics sustaining law, morality, and existential inquiry.

Despite the temptation to mourn the improbable revival of intellectual resilience in an age of creeping barbarism, it remains a moral imperative to expose the sociopolitical mechanisms propelling decay and forewarn of its inexorable momentum towards civilizational collapse.

For generations, the fortification of Jewish enclaves in Western Europe—patrolled by armed sentinels and shrouded in perpetual vigilance—has symbolized the unresolved specter of geopolitical malice. Warlike defenses were initially designed to counter socialist-revolutionary terrorism launched by Arabs post-1948. Thus, the 1970s and 1980s saw a wave of aircraft hijackings and murderous attacks on civilian targets. Tellingly, those outrages blurred the veil between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. The terrain has since mutated grotesquely with the influx of millions from Muslim-dominant realms in the Middle East, North Africa, and Anatolia.

Amid sporadic integration triumphs, a virulent strain of antisemitism has been transplanted, drawn from archaic Islamic scriptures and folklore that demonize Jews as eternal adversaries. This iteration, laced with apocalyptic rhetoric and calls for annihilation, mirrors the Nazi’s genocidal fervor, albeit shorn of its........

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