For generations, Jewish travelers might have worried about packing the right adapter or memorizing a few phrases. Now, there’s a more sobering question: will I be safe? A new website aims to answer that, and its findings are grim.
Israeli high-tech entrepreneur Shay Yaish has launched Safe For Jews (SafeForJews.org), a platform that aggregates data to give destinations worldwide a safety score for Jewish and Israeli travelers. The site grew out of Yaish’s own search for a safe place to travel as an Israeli Jew, faced with what he calls “rising global antisemitism and scattered, hard-to-find information.”
The centerpiece is an interactive global map. Countries are color-coded from forest green (safe) to red (dangerous), with lime green for “caution” and orange for “warning.” According to American Thinker, which first reported on the site, the map shows “very few pockets of the world where Jews can feel safe.” Of roughly 195 countries tracked, only 25 are rated as actually safe for Jewish travelers.
How the data is collected
Yaish says the site is not based on travelers’ impressions. Instead, it pulls from a range of sources and applies artificial intelligence to assess danger levels. The platform collects information daily from more than 60,000 news sources worldwide, uses AI to classify how dangerous each event is, integrates the Israeli Emergency National Center’s official status for each country, performs in-depth Google searches for each location, and then summarizes the data to assign a severity level.
The website is a response to a wave of antisemitic incidents reported around the world, including in the United States. Yaish hopes it will help Jewish travelers “travel with confidence—knowing not just where to go, but where they will feel respected, secure, and at home.”
United States flagged yellow
One of the most striking findings is that the United States receives a lime-green “caution” rating. American Thinker attributes this to the prevalence of antisemitism in major cities and notes the mayor of New York City has been openly antisemitic. Canada is rated orange, with its leftist government and an “aggressive Muslim population” cited as contributing factors.
The map’s darker shades dominate much of the world. North Africa and the Muslim Middle East are largely orange or red. Most of Latin America is a danger zone, with Colombia singled out as a serious problem. Yet there are unexpected bright spots: Bolivia, Paraguay, El Salvador, much of the Caribbean, Cuba, and the Pacific Islands receive favorable ratings, according to the site.
In Europe, the picture is mixed. Western European countries like Spain, the UK, Germany, and Italy are flagged as dangerous, a development American Thinker attributes to the importation of “tens of millions of Muslims.” Portugal appears as a green haven on the continent’s far western edge. Meanwhile, several central and Eastern European nations that once had hostile histories with Jewish communities—Croatia, Kosovo, Slovakia, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, and Belarus—are rated relatively safe. The author of the American Thinker piece notes that such ratings may partly reflect the fact that few Jews remain in those countries, with Belarus having lost roughly 80-85% of its Jewish population in the Holocaust.
A tool for travelers and others
Yaish’s site is free to use and offers not just the map but also detailed country profiles, news feeds, and government advisories. For Jewish travelers, it offers a practical way to assess risk before booking a trip. For non-Jews, the site also serves as a consumer guide of sorts. As American Thinker notes, if you think it’s a bad idea to spend money in countries with rising antisemitism, you might check the site too.
The broader message is that antisemitism is a warning sign for society at large. As commentator Andrew Klavan put it, “antisemitism is the devil’s flagpole”—where it grows, everyone suffers.
The project comes at a time when antisemitic incidents are reported daily across the globe. For many Jews, the question is no longer just about what to see, but whether it’s safe to go at all. Safe For Jews offers a data-driven answer, and it makes for difficult reading.
Source: www.americanthinker.com — https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/antisemitism-is-so-rampant-there-s-now-a-website-tracking-dangerous-places-for-jewish-travelers/