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A small number of events does not mean they are unsafe. Your example resulted in no deaths nor injuries and occurred 9 years ago.
I would agree that antisemitism is on the rise and attacks such as these are becoming slightly more common, as well as more day to day confrontations, but I don't think it's significant enough to say "Europe is unsafe for Jews". It is concerning, and needs to be monitored, but by and large the region is not unsafe.
How do you define safe? The Jewish student union at Vienna university needs police guards every time they have a get together since they have received so many threats. Police guarding when they have a movie night. That is absolutely insane. With the police guards they are quite safe yes. But if the environment they live in requires them to take precautions like this, is that environment really safe?
If you have to hide your Jewish identity when you are out and about in public to be safe. Is your environment really safe? If you have to inform the police anytime you have even a private Jewish community event to be safe? Is your environment really a safe one? I would argue no, if you have to go to these lengths for your safety you are not in a safe location. Arguing otherwise would be like saying a certain location is safe for women because despite there being full of rapists on the streets at night the women can simply stay inside at night or be escorted by a man. That's not true safety.
Having police or security is different to needing them.
You say they need police "every time", and yet the event you seem to be referring to was a one off screening of the Eurovision final. Israel's participation in Eurovision has been highly controversial in recent years, so having a showing openly in support of them is of course going to be controversial as well. Not that the threats were warranted, but they should have been expected and they refused to take any measures themselves to address the risk they courted, hence the university following their duty of care and requiring additional security from the police.
I imagine most Jewish people in Europe feel about the same as most Russians in Europe feel about their cultural identity. Tolerated to an extent, but held under suspicion when expressed, due to a potential allegiance with a violent state. I imagine they feel like many Germans felt in the 1950s onwards.