As the migrating minority populations in the successor states grouped together, the new states increasingly considered them a threat. Anti-Semitism was rife across Eastern Europe, adding to the distrust of their Jewish population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylumIn any event, the right of asylum wasn’t much help to stateless people who didn’t get to England or the US. Arendt politely doesn’t mention that her new country, the US, turned away Jews seeking asylum during and after WWII. Migrants continue to enter Europe today.r I took the picture associated with this post at the Vienna train station in mid-September 2015.

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2024 12:37 UTC