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300 French personalities sign manifesto against 'new anti-Semitism'
TheLocal.fr ^ | 22 April 2018 09:11 CEST+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 04/22/2018 9:25:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai

More than 300 French dignitaries and stars have signed a manifesto denouncing a “new anti-Semitism” marked by “Islamist radicalization” after a string of killings of Jews, to be published in Le Figaro newspaper Sunday.

The country’s half-a-million-plus Jewish community is the largest in Europe, but has been hit by a wave of emigration to Israel in the past two decades, partly due to the emergence of virulent anti-Semitism in predominantly immigrant neighborhoods.

“We demand that the fight against this democratic failure that is anti-Semitism becomes a national cause before it’s too late. Before France is no longer France,” reads the manifesto co-signed by politicians from the left and right, including ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and celebrities like actor Gérard Depardieu.

The signatories condemned what they called a “quiet ethnic purging” driven by rising Islamist radicalism particularly in working-class neighborhoods.

They also accused the media of remaining silent on the matter. “In our recent history, 11 Jews have been assassinated — and some tortured — by radical Islamists because they were Jewish,” the declaration said. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; eussr; france; rop

1 posted on 04/22/2018 9:25:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

This is good. It’s about time France acknowledged this bigotry. Protection of the Jews will be the line in the sand in the fight against the Islamists.


2 posted on 04/22/2018 9:37:53 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Olog-hai
I wonder if Hollywood has 300 such brave souls.
3 posted on 04/22/2018 9:38:01 PM PDT by donna (John McCain dispatched a trusted aide across the Atlantic to get dirty dossier from ex-spy.)
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To: Olog-hai
“We demand that the fight against this democratic failure that is anti-Semitism becomes a national cause before it’s too late.

OK, there, its fixed.

-OR-

Maybe now you need to do something, like send the anti-semites back to where they came from.

4 posted on 04/23/2018 5:57:17 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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