Today’s Europe faces real and growing crises: war with Russia, rising tensions with China, and the unrelenting wave of Muslim immigration that is reshaping its cultural and political foundations. And yet, amid these existential challenges, much of Europe’s political class and public discourse are fixated on a single scapegoat: Israel.

Watching the protests fill European streets and listening to parliamentary debates, one might think the world’s sole villain is the Jewish state. The volume of rage, the vehemence of the accusations—it's as if eliminating Israel would suddenly resolve every problem plaguing the continent.

But that’s a dangerous delusion.