The European Jewish Congress has called on European governments and law enforcement agencies to enact tougher laws and punishments for racist and anti-Semitic attacks after a British Jewish teen was beaten unconscious only a few days after two Holocaust survivors were brutally attacked in their Amsterdam apartment.

�Europe is rightly talking a lot about the lessons learnt from the Second World War in relation to the refugee crisis,� Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the EJC, said. �However, another lesson is that when Jews are beaten in broad daylight on our streets and in homes, then European tolerance is clearly on the wane.�

�Unfortunately, as usual, the Jews, unwillingly, act as a canary in the coalmine for Europe and these attacks are demonstrating once again that Jews are made to feel unsafe around the continent.�

A Jewish teenager was knocked unconscious in what Manchester police are treating as a hate crime. The boy, 17, was one of four young people assaulted Saturday night by three men at a Metrolink tram station near Heaton Park, located in the heart of Manchester�s Jewish community.

�A message needs to be sent very clearly that hate crimes will come with a maximum penalty and violence against minorities will be dealt with severely by the authorities,� Dr. Kantor continued.

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