Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Darkness again falls on Europe: Jews fleeing France: Exodus up 400% in First Quarter of 2014
American Thinker ^ | 05/13/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/13/2014 6:59:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The number of Jews leaving France for Israel is up 400% in the first quarter of 2014, according to AFP. The largest remnant of Jews in Europe surviving the Holocaust is now under a new threat, one that echoes the last century’s, but with new faces and names.

The Jewish Agency for Israel, a global body responsible for the immigration and absorption of Jews into Israel, said 1,407 people left France for Israel between January and March against 353 people a year earlier.

"This phenomenon is speeding up" said Ariel Kandel, the head of the Jewish Agency's French chapter. (snip)

Kandel told AFP that the reasons for the hike in numbers were a "climate of anti-Semitism" and the prevailing gloomy economic situation in France.

The French news agency’s story does not mention the words “Muslim” or “immigrant,” but the anti-Semitism that matters today in France is far different from the imported Nazi variety or the traditional French disdain that ensnared Col. Dreyfuss.  Muslims, immigrants and their French-born children, principally from North Africa, are attacking Jews on the streets and making life unpleasant for anyone identifiably Jewish.

While France stagnates, weighed down by a welfare state and income taxes as high as 75%, Israel is booming, with a vibrant high technology economy. But it is almost certainly the violence and harassment that is driving French Jews out.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; jews
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-26 last
To: SeekAndFind

So Ukrainian fascists are in charge of France?


21 posted on 05/13/2014 8:16:13 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Nazi commanders did say they were stunned and surprised by the enthusiasm with which the occupied French carried out their “round up the Jews” orders.

Thanks again, great-grandfather, for leaving that goofy country.


22 posted on 05/13/2014 9:01:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

"There is no such thing as a good tax."

~Winston Churchill



please click the pic
donate today to the most conservative online site!


23 posted on 05/13/2014 9:02:21 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BlueDragon

http://domania.us/Oaccess/POTLATCH/SoundsOfSilence.html


24 posted on 05/13/2014 9:15:12 AM PDT by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Junk Silver

Clearly you need to look at French casualties in the Franco-Prussian war, World War 1, and World War 2. About 1 in 5 military age men in France were wounded or killed in World War 1.


25 posted on 05/13/2014 11:21:47 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................

26 posted on 05/15/2014 5:58:31 AM PDT by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-26 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson