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