Once upon a time it was noteworthy that Jews in Eastern Europe felt safer than Jews in Western Europe. Now it is a mundane fact. In the time it went from noteworthy to mundane, October 7 happened. And from October 7 to now, the collapse of Jewish security in Britain proved not only that Eastern European Jews were justified in feeling safer but that Western Europe’s once-earned sense of democratic superiority is fading. It also provides a fair amount of evidence that different countries’ public