Jewish news outlet Haaretz reports that an insurance company has denied coverage for a Jewish kindergarten in the capital of Belgium due to the high risk of anti-Semitic attacks.

An insurance company has refused to renew the policy of a Jewish kindergarten in Brussels, claiming that the risk of doing so is too high, given the clear threat of anti-Semitic attacks. [...]

The refusal to insure the kindergarten comes less than a year after the terror attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum, in which a French jihadist opened fire at the museum entrance, killing four people including an Israeli couple. That attack in May 2014, followed by the January killings at the kosher supermarket in Paris, have prompted insurance companies to regard Jewish institutions as high risk.

The General Director of the European Jewish Association, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, responded to the "shameful" news:

“It is unfortunate to see that the insurance companies have realized what many European governments have not — Jewish institutions are a target for terrorist attacks and we need to make sure that they are protected by security forces," said Margolin.

“It is shameful that we reached such a state. At first they do not do enough to protect the Jewish institutions in Europe despite recurring requests and warnings,” he added. “Then the insurance companies use the excuse of the security situation as a way to avoid insuring kindergartens. This reality is surreal and cynical.”

In his coverage of the incident, The Weekly Standard's Geoffrey Norman suggests that such stories seem only more likely to increase with the West now negotiating with Israel's self-proclaimed mortal enemy:

This is the European reality as the world "negotiates" with a nation that has announced as a prime objective, the destruction of Israel.

Things may not be exactly the same, now, from the days when appeasement was considered prudent, even wise, and attacks on Jews were, more are less, routine. But neither are they all that different.

As many reports from the negotiations have made clear, the Obama administration is pulling out all the stops to nail down a nuclear deal with the anti-Israel Iranian government, in what the Washington Post calls the president's attempt to "bend the arc of human history." As the president's relationship with Israel continues to deteriorate, Israeli and European Jews see themselves as increasingly exposed—and, apparently, European insurance companies are beginning to agree.