Austria’s Jewish community is sounding the alarm: antisemitic incidents have surged to 1,147 this year alone. That’s nearly four hate crimes every single day. Jews are being assaulted in public, harassed on the streets, and subjected to anti-Israel slurs at rallies that claim to promote peace. We’ve seen this movie before—and we know how it ends if good people stay silent.

What’s worse, most of these incidents are happening in broad daylight, in major cities, under the noses of politicians who still claim Austria is safe for Jews. Let’s be clear: when Jews are afraid to wear a kippah or speak Hebrew in public, the country has failed them. And when so-called “pro-Palestinian” protests devolve into threats and violence, it’s no longer about politics—it’s about pure Jew-hatred. The question isn’t whether Jews have a future in Austria. The question is whether Austria has the courage to earn one.

Image: Vienna, Austria, The Schoenbrunn castle with an antisemitic sign reading: “Jews are prohibited to enter the castle garden”, 1938. (Yad Vashem)