Yeah, anti-semitism as an organized activity isn’t a thing. I mean, there’s a little bit of what I’d call residual stereotyping and the resulting distrust that sometimes rears its head, but there’s no real concept of “us and them” anywhere I’ve lived.
By that, I mean that Jewish people in large Texas cities are not remarkable in any way- about all you’ll run across is to drive by a synagogue, or notice that a grocery store has a large Kosher section, but other than that, the Jewish community is well integrated into the population. Being Jewish isn’t looked at as really anything different than being Presbyterian or Baptist or something like that. Being an avowed atheist would probably get you more grief, I suspect.
I mean, I used to work for a guy who was a Reform Jew, and with the exception of his last name and that he always took off a few days in September and in the spring, you wouldn’t have really known that he was a Jew. Or a guy who lived in the dorm with me in college- he was Jewish and not particularly circumspect about it, and the absolute worst that happened is that his Animal House-style nickname (everyone ended up with a vaguely awful one) was “Matzo-Ball”. Another guy I knew only suffered friendly harassment from his gentile friends when he ate things like cheeseburgers and bacon.
While Jews don’t have to worry about pogroms in Israel, the whole nation seems a little risky and unstable. As am American Jew, I feel safer here. The only antisemitic acts I know of perpetrated against me in my life have been one racial slur when I was in elementary school, and one swastika drawn on my car by some kid wiping away road salt with his finger.
There may be other countries equally safe. Japan certainly has an extremely low crime rate of any sort. The Australian Jews I’ve met certainly have never mentioned any fear of antisemitism. But the risk of being Jewish in the US is low enough that we are basically comparing background crime rates when comparing to other countries, not antisemitism.
Texas has a significant Jewish population at about 160,000 - 200,000 people (about the same as all of Germany). They are interesting because many of them are quite proud true Texans with long lineages there and Jewish. I am friends with of a few of them of even had a step-grandmother once that is one. New York, California and Florida have many more at 1.8 million, 1.2 million and 640,000 people respectively.
That is thing that I truly don’t understand. The vast majority of Jews in the world already live in the U.S. and Israel. Which country has more isn’t easy to know for sure but collectively they already have about 12 million+ of the less than 14 million Jews in the entire world. The entire European Union only has about 1.1 million Jews or, to put it another way, fewer than the states of New York and California alone spread among 28 countries.
I have real trouble understanding why a generally successful population that only makes up a tiny fraction of a percent of the remaining countries is the sustained focus of so much interest let alone hatred. I am not free from certain types of prejudice in general myself but Jews have never been included in those or for anyone I know even growing up in a tiny Southern town. They have never done anything to me besides providing hilarious comedy, top quality medical care, scientific breakthroughs, sound financial advice and a lot of decent entertainment. I kid but not really. To my American brain, the stereotypes are there like they are for any group but they are almost all positive.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has some interest in the subject. This page is devoted to US antisemitism, but contains prominent links to reports of global antisemitism. http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/united-states/
The OP addressed physical risk, and that question has been mostly answered. Separately, the ADL conducted a survey of antisemitic attitudes and ranked countries accordingly. http://global100.adl.org/
Middle Eastern countries unsurprisingly have the highest rates with the West Bank, Iraq, Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Kuwait heading the list.
The lowest rates were in Denmark, the US, the UK, Vietnam, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the Philippines: lowest of all was Laos.
In Asia, South Korea appears to have more antisemitic attitudes than China, Japan and Russia for reasons that are unclear to me. It appears to be a regional outliers. Indonesia is close to South Korea, but its high Muslim population may explain part of that.
Amsterdam might be good. History means that antisemitism is severely frowned upon. Anne Frank’s house will serve as a reminder to anyone tempted.
Plus there is a significant Jewish community and a lot of Jewish history.
It also had Jewish mayor until about five years ago.
I’m Dutch, though not from Amsterdam or Jewish, so perhaps my opinion is a little on the idealistic side, but it seems as good a place as I can think of.
