Commenting on the deadly terrorist attacks in Barcelona, the chief rabbi of Catalunya said his community is doomed, partially because of radical Islam, and partly due to the lack of will by government institutions to deal with the problem.
Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen has been encouraging his congregation to flee Spain, which he called a “hub of Islamist terror for all of Europe.” He urged Jews to move to Israel because “Europe is lost” to radical Islam.
To Bar-Hen, whose community on Friday resumed activities that it had suspended briefly following the Barcelona attack, “Jews are not here permanently,” he said of the city and region. “I tell my congregants: Don’t think we’re here for good. And I encourage them to buy property in Israel. This place is lost. Don’t repeat the mistake of Algerian Jews, of Venezuelan Jews. Better [get out] early than late.”