Algemeiner Editor-in-Chief Dovid Efune on CNN. Photo: Screenshot.

The uptick in violence against Jews in Europe is a result of widespread demonization of the State of Israel, Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune said in an interview on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront on Sunday.

Commenting on video footage of an Israeli reporter who was harassed while roaming the streets of Paris wearing a kippa, Efune said, “It’s this demonization of the Jewish state, which translates into antisemitic acts, and it’s something that really needs to stop and it needs to be addressed.”

“It’s impossible to guard every single target,” he said, responding to a clip of Rob Wainright, Director of Europol, detailing the steps his organization is taking to protect Jewish targets. “You’d have to have bodyguards following around every conspicuous-looking Jew who’s walking in the streets of Europe. You cannot protect the Jewish community fully in that way. What is needed, and what is more necessary, is to go after the root causes and a lot of that stems from the indoctrination.”

The discussion on CNN follows deadly attacks on Jewish targets earlier this month and last month in France and Denmark. In Paris, four Jews were killed by an Islamist gunman as they shopped for food in a kosher supermarket right before shabbat, and in Copenhagen a Jewish security guard was shot dead outside a synagogue.

Watch the full clip of the interview below:

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