I can partly confirm this.. News from around Europe show huge protests, even violent aimed towards Israeli embassies.
Err.... First off, protests that become huge in nature have a tendency regardless of where you are in the world, to turn violent, especially if there are elements among the protesters who's goal is to create such violence (anarchists and other nutjobs), and if the local law enforcement is trigger happy.
And one thing for sure in Europe (vs the US) is that we have a large anarchist movement in many countries that love large protests, because it means they can promote their violent anarchist views to the fullest. Look at May day "riots" targeting US owned property in many European countries.. totally promoted and done by anarchist groups.
And also, protesting near or next to Israeli and American embassies triggers all sorts of security crap that forces local law enforcement to forcing people away when crowds get to big, which they often do not want to do... and then the fun starts.
Secondly, the same amount of "huge protests, even violent" protests have happened against the US, EU, UK, random nation abusing its populace, random organisation that someone is pissed it. Farmer protests, that block roads, and dump produce in front of random political establishment... they are just if not more violent than these protests.
When the US invaded Iraq, there were huge protests in front of the US embassy, UK embassies, and other embassies participating in the invasion. Some were "violent" when some idiot started throwing stuff or the local police got bored and wanted to "move" people and they resisted.
In other related activities I have seen "extremists" calling for a European military intervention in Israel, acting on behalf of Palestine..
They have been calling for that since forever. Nothing new there. Has nothing to do with anti-semitism in Europe. Just one part of the populace that have a different view on the situation and see Israel as the one to blame for everything.. you know the opposite of what most of the US populace and these boards see of the situation. I have not seen many calling American's for Islamophobes and racist ... although one could easily argue this based on the way critical views of Israel are viewed..
Shameful increase in antisemitism which is clearly becoming more visible.
While anti-semitism is shamefull as much as any other minority bashing, dont confuse legit protest against the state of Israel for what said state is doing, with racist anti-semitism of idiot morons who hate jews. Are there jew haters among the protests? You bet, but does that make it an anti-semitistic protest? Hell no. If so, then any white man protesting Obama would be a racist black hater, and every man protesting a woman would be a chauvinistic woman hater.
Some in the media and especially the US media always promote the idea (direct or indirect) with the full backing of the state of Israel, that any protest or critical mention of Israel has to be the work of anti-semites that hate Israel and dont forget to mention the holocaust!!!..
It is time to look past the cloak of being a Jew, or Muslim or Christian and look at the political realities of the situation, but as long as both sides use religion in their political manoeuvring then it will never happen.
But again, dont mix up legit protests against the actions of the State of Israel with anti-semitism.
