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French Jews targeted by Muslims, flock to Israel

Sep 29, 2016 6:20 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Why are Jews leaving France? Because “French Jews feel they can give their children a better future in Israel” and of course, the rise of anti-semitism……

Fears of anti-Semitism are rising again in Europe. They have been stoked in particular by a growing number of verbal and physical attacks on Jews not only in France, but also in Britain, Belgium and elsewhere in Europe….A report commissioned by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) confirmed what had been widely asserted by French commentators: the perpetrators of the attacks have overwhelmingly been Muslim youths.

Attacks by Muslims against Jews in France is a taboo subject, yet…..

France is the main target of repeated Islamist attacks…..Most of those attacks were committed by French Muslims: citizens on their way back from Syria.

As usual, politically correct politicians sell out the public…..

After each of these tragic episodes President François Hollande refused to name the enemy, refused to name Islamism — and especially refused to name French Islamists — as the enemy of French citizens…..

For Hollande, the enemy is an abstraction: “terrorism” or “fanatics”. Even when the president does dare to name “Islamism” as the enemy, he refuses to say he will close all Salafist mosques, prohibit the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist organizations in France, or ban veils for women in the street and at university.

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“French Jews feel they can give their children a better future in Israel”, by Michele Chabin, USA Today, September 29, 2016:

PARIS — Yael Haccoun and her family are Orthodox Jews from the working-class Paris suburb of Sarcelles, but they flew to Israel in late September to start a new life and escape the anti-Semitism around them.

“French people think that it’s natural when Jews are targeted” in terror attacks, said Haccoun, 33, as she waited with her husband and their three children here at the airport. “The fact that the army must protect Jewish schools and synagogues isn’t normal.”

She said her family watched in horror in July 2014 as a demonstration protesting Israel’s war with Hamas turned into an anti-Semitic rampage. Dozens of young men chanting “God is great” in Arabic and “death to the Jews” attacked Jewish-owned businesses with clubs and fire bombs.

The number of French Jews immigrating to Israel rose from 1,900 in 2011 to nearly 8,000 last year, said Jacques Canet, president of La Victoire, the great synagogue of Paris. He said the country’s 500,000 to 600,000 French Jews — the third largest Jewish population in the world — “feel threatened.”

“Increasingly, Jews in Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse, Sarcelles feel they can’t safely wear a kippah (yarmulke, or skull cap) outside their homes or send their children to public schools, where Muslim children bully Jewish children,” Canet said.

A poll by the French Institute of Public Opinion in January showed 43% of France’s Jewish Community are considering a move to Israel, and 51% said they have “been threatened” because they are Jewish.

Those with enough money have moved to more upscale areas within France or to Canada, England or the United States, Canet said. The wealthy, staunch Zionists and those who can’t afford to send their children to private Jewish schools go to Israel.

Moshe Sabbag, rabbi of La Victoire, believes “100%” of France’s Jews are thinking of moving, but that prospect is daunting. The majority of France’s Jews immigrated to France in the 1950s and 1960s from North African Muslim countries.

French Jews “love France, they love French culture, they want to stay,” Sabbag said just before leading Friday night services at the synagogue. “But Jews were targeted during huge demonstrations against the 2014 Gaza war. They were killed in Toulouse and Hypercacher,” he said, referring to the 2012 attack on a Jewish school that killed four people and the 2015 attack on a kosher Paris supermarket that left four dead. Muslim extremists carried out both attacks.

Although 2015 was a record year for French immigration to Israel, the numbers this year are lower. As of August 2016, 40% fewer Jews had arrived, compared to the same period last year, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Dov Maimon, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, a think tank, said there are a number of reasons for the decline.

“First, Jews in France are feeling more secure because the (French) prime minister has beefed up security around Jewish institutions, while the increase in terror attacks this winter in Israel may have scared off some people. It may also be that the most ideologically driven Jews have already immigrated,” Maimon said.

The biggest factor, Maimon said, “is that the Israeli prime minister promised French Jews he would take care of them if they came to Israel. They believed Israel would provide them with jobs and housing, but France is a welfare state. Israel is not.”

He pointed out that 100 French immigrant families have returned to France so far this year.

Despite some governmental and agency assistance, “they didn’t find jobs, their kids didn’t learn Hebrew, and French Jews still in France say, ‘I don’t want to be like them.’”

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein believes the assistance is making a difference. Eckstein, founder of the International Fellowship for Christians and Jews, said his group provided plane tickets, $1,000 and other services to 700 new French immigrants during the past two years, including 70 people on the Haccouns’ flight.

“Our volunteers meet every person who arrives. We help them find a place to live and a school for their children. We help them write a resume and pay for day care so they can look for a job,” Eckstein said.

In the Sarcelles suburb, Rabbi Yaakov Bitton, head of an Orthodox Jewish elementary school, asked his students to raise their hands if their families planned to move to Israel. Almost every child did.

“Twenty years ago there were 30,000 Jews in Sarcelles. Today there are 15,000,” Bitton said.

Despite the exodus, Bitton’s son Mendel, who is also a rabbi, is building a yeshiva in the town. “We believe that there is a future for Jews here,” Mendel Bitton said….

 

 

 

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  1. mortimer says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    France is letting down its Jewish citizens and doesn’t deserve to have them.

    • Praeceptor Maximus says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 5:55 am

      Agree.

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 1:33 pm

      Right you are! Repeat of nazi era?! France should just wave that white flag and turn over the once proud nation to islam. The flag of surrender is the one they fly most often. My uncle is inscribed at the DC Holicaust Memorial as a Righteous Gentile. He would so disappointed to see this

    • Angemon says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 5:08 pm

      Indeed.

  2. marc says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    I’m an Englishman who brought my (Jewish) family to Canada ten years ago, a French friend from Nantes who I have worked with for years who once said “you are making too much of this, it will get better”, just got his Canadian permanent residence and will be living here next week.

    Jews are just leaving Europe, and the flow is rapidly increasing, i think for many israel is a first choice. Ironically, currently the number of Jews in the UK has not dropped so much, as the huge numbers that have left have been replaced by missguided European Jews who think “at least the UK will be OK”.

    If you check the CST figures, they track violent anti-semitic events in the UK, a Jew is ten times more likley to be attacked by a muslim (aka asian) who are 4% of the population than by indigenous Brits.

    I dont know of any similar organisation to the CST in other European countries, but with the increasing numbers of muslim immigrants, we can only assume that day to day mostly unreported violent attacks such as CST monitors are also growing across the continent.

    https://cst.org.uk/data/file/4/f/Incidents_Report_-_Jan-June_2016.1470133952.pdf

    • citycat says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 4:43 am

      Also, just a thought, there is a fair percentage of the English that have Jewish ancestry, who don’t normally mention it, but recently some are coming out in sympathy. I don’t know what is the percentage but i’ve noticed that commonly there is one or more in any small group. Maybe one in ten, hard to say. Ok

  3. abad says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    Tragic.

    And the European Muslims – just like their mirror image Nazis – are behind it all.

    If anything it is the Muslims in Europe who should be leaving that continent, NOT the Jews.

    Muslims

    • Tatyana Solovey says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 4:15 am

      Amen

    • Charli Main says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 5:01 am

      Why should the Muslims leave Europe.??? Don´t you know, that like Palestine, Europe is THEIR LAND. Time for Europeans to stop illegally occupying Muslim land. Europeans get out of Dar al Islam.!!!! ( Sarcasm, of course)

  4. Mark A says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    With what is happening in France and the demographic projection for France’s future, it’s hardly surprising that French Jews are voting with their feet and leaving for Israel.

  5. Blangwort says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    Their choices are bleak. They can choose to vote with their feet and their wallets, or they can take a chance by staying and losing everything.

    It’s really not that hard to see why this is happening.

  6. Matthieu Baudin says

    Sep 29, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    …“The fact that the army must protect Jewish schools and synagogues isn’t normal.”…

    In fact Ethnic Jews living in European countries are analogous to the ‘canaries in the mine’ of times past; what we see happening to Jewish People, the heightened day to day anxiety, the need for armed security for civic institutions and public events – all this alerts us to the fact that the present times aren’t at all normal and that the Jihad being waged upon us is like a poisonous gas reaching out to cripple all of us.

  7. Makenomistake says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 3:31 am

    France is already doomed under the weight of the political correctness and islam,which has taken wonderful advantages of the former. If the French Jews now leave their country ,then it will lose a community that could have helped it in the time of need.
    Do the political elites understand this ???
    Or ,are they sold to the Soudis ??
    Men(and women) go out of their minds before being destroyed .

  8. chevalier de st george says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 5:06 am

    the arab genocide of middle easterb jews must see will europe be next?
    SILENT EXODUS by Pierre Rehov
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/09/french-jews-targeted-by-muslims-flock-to-israel

  9. Robert DuPaul says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 5:41 am

    It’s going to be hard for Israel to absorb a large influx of Jewish people from Europe being such a small nation and with president Obama being focused on helping Muslim refugees and ignoring the Christian refugees and Jewish imagrant s , Looks like things are not going to be improving in the future !

  10. chevalier de st george says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 5:58 am

    sorry!
    SILENT EXODUS by Pierre Rehov

    • jude says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 9:27 pm

      Very good video. Thanks.

  11. eur says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 6:17 am

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submission_(novel) by Michel Houellebecq

  12. Guy Jones says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 6:27 am

    France’s huge loss will be Israel’s gain.

    While French Jews take their talents to add to Israel’s already immense cultural, technological, commercial and intellectual prowess, France will be left with parasitic, supremacist and belligerent Muslim jackboots who are content to live off of state welfare (viewed as the dhimmi’s payment of the jizya tax to his Muslim betters), commit acts of terrorism and violence and generally behave like conquering hordes imposing their fascist ideology upon the host.

    • eur says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 6:53 am

      When the Muslims conquered Constantinople in 1453, many Byzantines intellectuals, thinkers, philosophers, painters, sculptors, scientists fled to Florence, Rome, Milan … and all this hodgepodge was the origin of humanism, renaissance. illustration … Sapere Aude!!!. Meanwhile .. Byzantium, Constantinople … became Instanbul => an infected well. Who won and who lost?

      Islam destroyed classical civilization and their remains present civilization emerged. Islam destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire and is about to destroy Western civilization (heir to the Western Roman Empire)

      • Allan says

        Sep 30, 2016 at 2:11 pm

        I concur with your assessment, given contempoary trends. Hence, my frequent remark that Roma sarà una città islamica.

  13. Marty says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 7:39 am

    I wish they’d come to the UK.
    We only have 250,000, & Jews are clean living & hard working.
    With the obvious exceptions — there are undesirables in all communities.
    I remember when Brent was a “Jewish area” ie about 15% Jewish.
    It was clean & prosperous.
    Today it is at least 50% mohammedan & no longer an English town,
    despite being the home of British football.

    • Charli Main says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 1:24 pm

      Every area of Britain´s cities, that has become infested with Muslims, is turned into a shithole—-a copy of the home country shithole they ran away from. Wallowing in shyte is the Muslims natural habitat.

  14. Alex says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 8:03 am

    Well it only falls into the benefits of Israel and the disadvantage of Europe , imagine how many scientist , Entrepreneur and jewish scholars will leave France and be replaced mainly by towel heads… way to go france !!

    • eur says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 8:21 am

      Jew entrepreneur = new technology , Aerospace Engineering …

      VS

      mohammedan entrepreneur = fruit vendor

      I do not like any religion, I am secular, have criticized Israel’s actions many times … but that does not mean it is evident that Islam and Islamic society sucks. Islam is fascism is intolerance, it is all the worse.

  15. Janwaar Bibi says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 8:39 am

    Nevertheless, Jewish organizations in the US and UK are pressuring their governments to take more Muslim immigrants (or “refugees” to use the fashionable term) into these relatively safe countries. In the US, the Anti-Defamation League reflexively supports every demand by Muslims and carefully avoids calling attention to Islamic extremism.

    The question is this – given what has happened to religious minorities in every country with a large Islamic population, why do diaspora Jews make common cause with Muslims in every country with a Christian majority?

    • Kay says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 9:00 am

      I wonder the same thing. It seems they have bought into the false equivalency of Muslim refugees and the Jews persecuted in WWII. Probably they’ve also bought into the false characterization of any against jihad as being bigots.

      Western Jews are likely as ignorant of the takeover of countries by Muslims as the rest of Americans are.
      Anti-semitism remains undiscussed, often because it is disguised as anti-Zionism.

      Or perhaps they have so much faith in God or in democracy that they don’t think there’s a problem.

    • marc says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 9:13 am

      @Janwaar Bibi
      “why do diaspora Jews make common cause with Muslims in every country with a Christian majority?”

      it does seem like that, but having lived in a couple of Jewish communities in the West, the only vocal groups to get any air time by the media are leftist organisations, so that’s all you hear about, bod.org.uk always quoted in the news, but aish.com is far more representative but their rarely heard from. personally I was involved with betar.org.uk which has no missunderstanding of the musim threat.

      • Kay says

        Sep 30, 2016 at 9:19 am

        Good to know.

  16. dave says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 11:05 am

    French speaking areas of Canada may well be a more welcoming and accommodating place for French Jews than Israel, since the selfish Israelis prevent French professionals from entering the labor market.

    • marc says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 11:25 am

      I think thats a bit unfair, it’s just language issues, an English speaking Jew will have the same issue in Quebec. I spent 6 months in Hulda, a French speaking community near Rehovot, cutting edge innovation going on there, I couldn’t “get in” with them purely due to my French and Hebrew lacking.
      Not putting off any Jews from coming to Canada though, the more the better, especially French, they’re a great lot.

  17. JIMJFOX says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    Islam= Naziism Mk2. This time the Jews see the writing on the wall and try to avoid the Second Holocaust.
    Lessons of history and all that…

    • Allan says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 2:17 pm

      Not Mendel, and he’s acting as if he has so much capital that he can afford to tie up a bundle of it in illiquid assets.

      “Mendel, who is also a rabbi, is building a yeshiva”.

  18. Ron says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    It is only government leaders who promote open borders and ignore the downside of unregulated immigration. Sadly, no one is held accountable for what happens then.

    Replacing Jews with Muslims has to be nuttiest idea since the electric fork.

    • Allan says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 2:19 pm

      What evidence supports your intetesting claim that “it is only government leaders who promote open borders and ignore the downside of unregulated immigration”?

    • Janwaar Bibi says

      Sep 30, 2016 at 6:43 pm

      Both the left and the right are promoting open borders. The Wall Street Journal has argued for decades in favor of a five word constitutional amendment that says “There shall be open borders.” On the left, you have Soros and left-wing organization pouring millions of dollars into promoting “refugee” migration. I agree that ordinary people in the West hate what is happening to their countries but it is important to recognize that the elites on both sides of the political spectrum want open borders and they will accomplish this unless they are stopped.

  19. Nick says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    I do not blame that the French Jews are leaving France. France has become a very dangerous country for French Jews, because there are too many evil Muslims in France who hate Jews. God of Heaven will always bless and protect Israel and may God of Heaven protect the Jews everywhere.

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