
I mean yeah it does sound like you have a problem with double standards in portugal, no denying that. All i can speak for is what ive seen and what the statistics say. And what iv’e seen is that Jews wearing a kippa are getting shouted at from across the street while muslims absolutely get their share of hatered but they are in no mean in danger just by showing their faith not at the same level so jews here don’t show their religious symbols. We have had weekly pro-palestine protest where they shout praising the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam brigade while in swedish they have much milder wording. And thats fine here, we allow protests and noone is going to stop them. Most people just let them do their thing. I support a part of their message with a free palestine but not the hateful rhetoric. The statistics is quite telling, but for sake of comparison, lets look at UK.
33% were on jews, 38% on muslims. By population count, they have a factor of 12 times more crimes against them.
Anyhow the argument that they should move or give up their country is no better than what the israeli government is doing right now.
I respect thay you might have a different point of view based on your experiences. I also have family in the UK that so i’m there regularly and follow what is going on. But the fact is that of those that usually wear jewish symbols, 61% avoid wearing them on occasion for their safety and additionally according to this EU survey almost a third is considering emigrating (of the 12 countries surveyed the average was 38% so UK is slightly better than most countries for jews)
https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2019-2nd-survey-on-discrimination-and-hate-crime-against-jews-in-eu-ms-country-sheet-uk_en.pdf
Looking at hate crime rates since that survey, they have boomed since the october event.
It does not suprise me at all that it is difficult to acknowledge that people with other backgrounds are subject to hate because that is how we are built. We rather look away and instead of finding out how the situation is, we go by how we feel things are which is why it is good to have statistical resources that paints a picture for the group as a whole.
I acknowledge that jews probably have better chances with authorities than other minorities but that also is not the reason they don’t feel safe wearing their religious symbols.
I hope you understand that i don’t want to make this a “they have it worse” thing. I want to show that their safety is not great, as here a third of their synagogue budgets go to private security. You can’t say that about any other group.