Posted on 01/27/2005 5:46:24 AM PST by SJackson
PARIS — For the past four years — as friends erased "Dirty Jew" graffiti from their office plaques and her French-born daughter puzzled over "go back where you belong" comments from strangers on the street — Evelyne Chiche has spent a piece of each day wondering if she was living in the wrong country.
This spring, the 62-year-old Jewish radio host plans to move to Miami. "I think it's important for my grandchildren here that I move, to provide them with a safe place should they need to get away," she said, waiting until a nearby businessman left the restaurant before talking about being Jewish. "France has changed."
Today, 27 world leaders — a king and queen, presidents and prime ministers — will gather in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where 1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.
But as the world focuses on the past, an increasing number of European Jews are concerned, to quote Sammy Ghozlan, a retired Calais police chief who now investigates anti-Semitic crimes, that "After decades of peace, the old taboos against anti-Semitism are broken. There is no future here for a Jew." Nobody maintains that Europe is again suffering the kind of hatred that gave rise to Auschwitz and other death camps that claimed 6 million Jews in Adolf Hitler's mad rush to his "final solution" to the "Jewish problem."
But the rise in anti-Semitism, chronicled in upward trend lines of European reports on attacks and threats against Jews, has prompted open concern in a continent whose history, from the Spanish Inquisition and medieval ghettos to the Dreyfuss affair and Hitler's rise, is riven with attacks on Jews.
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Well this is an opportunity for the US to gain by welcoming any Jewish people that wish to come here as refugees from anti-semitism in Europe.
Why would anyone want to live in a moral pig-stye like Europe anyway?
It's all about the proliferation of Islam in Europe. The jihadis are the new Nazis.
Plus of course, they hate a strong Israel.
Before long FR forum will become an anti-semitism forum. The original intent of FR was "conservatism" not anti anything, not saddle clubs, not vanities, on and on. Breaking news is not the place for such.
But it certainly seems to have started. Horrors like this take time to grow, chaotic people need to be immersed slowly into the mindset that will ultimately permit another Auswchitz. Europe's need for strong and moral leadership is so acute it actually hurts.
Take it up with management.
Yes, it is demonic. But a secularized society willfully blinds itself to that truth, and that is precisely what the demons need.
With respects, Madame Chiche, "France has changed back."
I totally agree. I was watching a special on Auschwitz last night on *GASP* PBS. The first segment dealt with deporation of Jewish children to Poland. Most of the first ones killed in those camps came from France.
One of the guys they interviewed, can't remember if he was a deported Jew or if he was a reporter or something like that, said that he was utterly appalled by the behavior of the French government! I was yelling at the TV screen: "Why should that surpirse you!! The French instinct of self preservation is very strong!! They would do ANYTHING to placate ANYONE who marched over them."
And reading this article looks, sounds and feels just like the France they showed last night in the program.
May I suggest that those that seem so interested in such news request an anti-semitism section where it can be posted.
May I suggest you just not read threads you are not interested in?
Are the words Ku Klux Klan familiar to anyone here? What about the Aryan Nation? Or the National Alliance? Hammerskin Nation? The World Church of the Creator? The Liberty Lobby? They all have (at least) three things in common. 1: They are all avowedly anti-Semitic. 2: They are all avowedly Christian. 3: They were all founded in the USA.
Let's put it another way: Did you hear the one about the desecration of over 200 Jewish graves in Cincinnati in a series of attacks last August? What about the arson attack on the Holocaust Museum in Indiana? Or the one about the swastikas daubed onto synagogues in Erie PA, Reno Nevada, Brooklyn, Denver, Rhode Island, Texas, Palm Beach ... (I'm not going to list them all, but you get the picture)?
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4464_12.htm
"The number of incidents of vandalism against Jewish community institutions, synagogues and property increased substantially in 2003. The activity comprised a total of 628 acts of vandalism, an 18 percent increase over the 531 acts reported in 2002."
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2002-3/usa.htm
"The number of antisemitic incidents in 2002 in the United States increased by eight percent from 2001. More dramatic was the 24 percent jump in antisemitic incidents on American college campuses – the third consecutive annual increase."
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4454_12.htm
"ADL Poll: One in Four Americans Believe Jews Were Responsible for the Death of Christ." "The number of Americans who accept the canard that "the Jews killed Christ" has remained virtually unchanged over a span of four decades."
Now hold onto your hats. I'm not being anti-American here, I'm just trying to add a little perspective to yet another "Isn't Europe Just Awful?" thread. I'm acutely aware of the fact that anti-Semitism is a graver problem over here than over there, both historically and contemporarily, but just for once, look at the bigger picture. Anti-Semitism is an international problem, not exclusively European. But you'd never get that idea from reading FR. The sanctimonious finger-pointing that goes on in this forum whenever anti-Semitism is raised is totally counterproductive. If you really cared about the issue, and weren't just trying to score cheap nationalistic points, you'd understand that. It's not about who is more anti-Semitic than who. That's the politics of six year-olds. This is an issue we should unite against, instead of playing childish games of one-upmanship.
OK, flame away.
Let's trade some muslims for Jews, then everybody's happy.
Were I a French Jew, I'd be packing my bags NOW.
This is intended as a "conservative" forum, and this section is for breaking news. Not for daily anti-semitism flag flying, not for vanities, not for prayer requests, on and on personal interest items.
Why does talk of anti-Semitism bother you so?
Don't you realize that in matters of liberty, Jews are often the canaries in the coal mine: thugs target Jews because they are such a small minority and the learned hatred of them is deep and powerful. But in the greater sense, in the long run, we are talking about liberty....even YOUR liberty.
You can understand a government by watching how it treats the weakest, or most isolated, of its citizens.
If you can't understand how the return of anti-Semitism and the rise of mohammedanism in Europe effects the us all, you should be reading more of these threads, not complaining about them.
If you don't like threads about anti-Semitism, I'd suggest you stop reading them.
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