Europe’s Jews are facing perhaps their worst crisis in living memory. “Europe’s Jews facing backlash.” (Aug. 23)

Jews have begun to feel the heat. Many Jewish community members are reported to be fleeing France and reaching Israel. The writer takes into account the rising tide of hatred against the community. Besides, there is a rise in the incidents of attacks on Jews and their synagogues.

Israel is the top-most racist country in the world. While it is encouraging Jews from other parts of the world to come to Israel, the country is, at the same time, discriminating against them on the basis of their origins and affiliations.

Hence there is every reason to believe that the Zionist establishment in Israel, as there are claims in the UK, is intimidating those Jews, who are repelled by Israel’s actions, into silence.

So we have this little horror called Israel, which tramples over the freedom rights of its own Jewish community. It likes to call the country a religious nation much against the wishes of its large number of Arab population. It commits international crimes and gives a damn to any resolution passed by the UN that censures Israel.

Yet the US continues to pamper it, cajole it and calls it the only “democratic” nation in the Middle East, which needs protection from surrounding Arab countries most of which are US allies.

Aslam Sultan

Dammam