Krauthammer’s Take: Rising Anti-Semitism in Europe a Return to Normal

On Tuesday’s Special Report, Charles Krauthammer, marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, said that Europe will eventually be empty of Jews, thanks to rising anti-Semitism that is merely a return to normal.

“There’s been an interruption in European history; there’s been a constant anti-Semitism for 2,000 years ending and culminating in the Holocaust, and as a result it was impolite in polite society to be anti-Semitic,” Krauthammer said. “This 70 years is an anomaly in European history and now what we’re getting is not a resurgence of ant-Semitism so much as a return to the European norm.”

The threat to the future of the Jewish people does not come from Europe, Krauthammer continued, but from enemies in the Middle East. With nuclear weapons, he said, Iran can be much more deadly than Hitler was, maybe rendering the Iranian threat to the Jewish people the “new Auschwitz.”