Every time I receive a message like this, my heart breaks. Within seconds, however, sadness gives way to immense anger at the cowardice of the political and intellectual elites who have allowed this rerun of the 1930s to happen. Especially the “progressive” ones, who are blind to the resurgence of Jew-hatred just because its newest purveyors are (mostly) not white and not European. And yes, I'm sorry to say, that includes everyone who has given oxygen to the modern blood libel of “genocide”, a blatant form of Holocaust inversion. This man is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, a doctor who fears he may be the last generation of his family to live in Belgium. Meanwhile, we let in tens of thousands of Jew-haters who despise our civilization and contribute precisely nothing to it. Remember: it won't end with the Jews. It never does. *** Fri 9 Oct, 12:50 (6 days ago) Dear Mr Boudry, I’d like to thank you for your clarity of thought and for the many times you have spoken out against antisemitism that has become so pervasive in our democracies. This is by no means a recent phenomenon, but I am deeply concerned about my future as a Jew in my own country, Belgium. Throughout history, Jews have repeatedly been treated as foreigners in countries where they had lived long before those who eventually considered them as "foreigners". Jewish communities had existed for over a thousand years in Poland, Yemen and elsewhere. And what remains of them today? Barely a trace. Today, I can no longer tell whether politicians from parties such as the PS, PTB, Ecolo and others make or endorse antisemitic statements out of sheer electoral calculation or because they genuinely believe in what they are saying. What is democracy? Simply the majority + 1. Unfortunately, demographic trends do not favour Jews. And we must be able to say this without being labelled xenophobic: there is a deeply ingrained antisemitism among many of our fellow muslim citizens (cf testimonies among others of Ismaël Saidi). My grandparents, who immigrated from Poland, were Belgian and proud to be so. My grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor, changed his name after the war because he no longer wanted a Polish-sounding name. He arrived in Belgium at the age of six months and graduated as a medical doctor from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he was een « echte Brusseleir », deeply attached to Belgium, his country. And yet, today, I am afraid. Do we, as Belgian Jews, still have a future here in Europe, in our own countries? Because yes, Belgium is my country. I am increasingly doubtful, and that saddens me profoundly. I am the third generation of Belgian Jewish doctors in my family, and perhaps the last one to live here in Brussels/Belgium. I sincerely hope that you will succeed in convincing our fellow citizens who are not directly affected by antisemitism that “it starts with the Jews, it never ends with the Jews.” Please accept my deepest respect and appreciation. Dr [XXX], Grandson of Holocaust survivors