I live in Brussels.Not the Brussels of postcards and European summits.The real one.
The Brussels where Jewish schools sit behind armed guards, where synagogues are built like fortresses, where Jewish parents quietly tell their children to tuck the Star of David inside their shirts before they leave the house. I know what antisemitism looks like when it stops hiding.I have spent my life watching it return to a continent that swore it never would.So let me ask the question no one seems willing to ask out loud:Why can’t I, as a European who lives here and sees this every single day, look across the ocean and tell America exactly what is coming? Why can’t I warn you that the thing I am living through is already arriving at your door? And why should that warning be addressed only to Jewish leaders, when it concerns every single American who still believes this can’t happen here?WESTERN LEADERS MUST CONFRONT ISLAMIST-INSPIRED ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE BEFORE IT TARGETS EVERYONEBelgian military personnel armed with FN SCAR assault rifles stand guard outside a synagogue in central Antwerp as part of Belgium's reinforced security measures established at Jewish schools and synagogues, on March 23, 2026.
A car was set on fire on March 23 in Antwerp's Jewish quarter, in Belgium, and two minors who were quickly arrested are suspected of participating in the activities of a terrorist group, the port city's public prosecutor said.On March 9, 2026, an explosion shook a synagogue in the Belgian city of Liege before dawn, causing some damage but no injuries. (John Thys/AFP via Getty Images.)It can.It is.
And I am not speaking only to the Jewish community.I am speaking to all of you — mayors, governors, senators, police chiefs, university presidents.
Anyone with the authority to act and the temptation to look away.Wake up.In Europe, antisemitism did not come back wearing a swastika.It came back wrapped in slogans.
It marched under the banner of justice.It called itself act...