Why 5,000 Jews emigrated from France to Israel last year

TheLocal.fr ^ | 9 January 2017 17:24 CET+01:00 | AFP

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Another 5,000 French Jews emigrated to Israel last year, figures showed Monday, continuing a trend that has seen tens of thousands quit the country after a series of attacks targeting the community.

The Jewish Agency of Israel issued the update as France marked two years since attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices and on a Jewish supermarket in Paris, where four shoppers were shot dead.

Daniel Benhaim, who heads the Israeli-backed group in France, said that insecurity had been a “catalyst” for many Jews who were already thinking of leaving.

The 5,000 departures in 2016 add to the record 7,900 who left in 2015 and 7,231 in 2014. In total, 40,000 French Jews have emigrated since 2006, according to figures seen by AFP. …

[rmlew]

Your response does not change the agenda of organizations.

Being called Jewish doesn't make them pro-Jewish. Do you think all the leftist "Christian" and communist front groups with the name Christian are Christian when they call for more Muslims to come to Europe?

I'm asking you to think rationally about this. I have faith that you can.

[Tours]

“Your response does not change the agenda of organizations.”

??? I never implied such. The vast majority of Jewish front organizations are hard core leftist. That’s just the way it is.

In point of fact, the Jewish left is one of the greatest, if not the greatest threat to my long term freedom and prosperity. For example, Justices Ginsberg, Breyer and Kagan present a far greater “Clear and Present Danger” to me than some low IQ, inbred, nut-job Jihadi holed up in a cave in Afghanistan.