The majority of the audience were transplanted Northeasterners now living in South Florida. Many audience members, as I discovered, had a great mentor, Dr. Walid Phares, formerly on the FAU faculty, and now at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy in Washington, DC.

What followed the 70 minute presentation of “Ever Again” was an intense Q+A and continuing discussion that lasted over two hours.

While the film graphically portrays the rise of Islamic Anti-Semitism in Europe, the Q+A that followed the film’s presentation veered to what was going on here in the US.

Introductory remarks

During the run up to the film presentation, I talked about the American ex-pat writer, Nidra Poller. I noted that the film had not portrayed two graphic murders of young French Jews that Poller had written about. One victim was a French DJ, <a Sebastien Salam, whose murderer was a deranged Muslim neighbor who shouted “that he had killed his Jew and now could receive his reward in Paradise”. The other French Jewish victim was a cell phone salesman in Paris, Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped by a Muslim gang, tortured and left to die on subway tracks. The film addresses the slaughter of Dutch Film Director Theo Van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam by a Dutch Muslim Moroccan. Van Gogh was a colleague of famed Dutch Somali parliamentarian and author, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who wrote the script for the ten minute film, “Submission” directed by Van Gogh.

I drew the audience’s attention to the recently released Second Annual Report on Anti-Semitism by EU Justice, Freedom and Security Minister Franco Frattini. The EU Report indicated that fully 50% of the Anti-Semitic incidents were attributable to Muslims in what the Islamic scholar Bat Ye’or calls Eurabia. Dr. Andrew Bostom had calculated that, given the relative non-Muslim to Muslim populations in the EU, Muslims were 20 to 32 times more likely to be perpetrators of these anti-Semitic incidents. Bostom also made reference to the corroborative 2006 Kaplan-Small analysis of data, in a Journal of Conflict Resolution article “Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Antisemitism in Europe,” based on an ADL survey of 5,004 Europeans in 10 countries which indicated that Muslims there were 8 times more likely to be Anti-Semitic. I pointed out to the audience that Saudi Arabia had been judenrein since the eruption of Islam under Muhammad. Jewish tribes in Medina, Mecca and other small communities were slaughtered, women raped, children enslaved, and survivors intimidated as inferior peoples or dhimmi and forced to flee. Those acts of violence and threats to Jews have continued to this day.