Posted on 01/23/2015 2:25:45 PM PST by Kaslin
A widely distributed political cartoon by Ranan Lurie, published after the massacre of four Jews in a kosher supermarket in Paris, depicts a tiny shrub above ground, and just below the surface, supporting the plant, is a web of thick twisted roots spread in the design of the swastika.
These Nazi roots are more than a cartoonist's imagination, carefully tended by the anti-Semites of France, exposed when the French rounded up their Jews, men, women and children, and shipped them to the death camps of World War II. If the cartoonist had dug deeper, he could have drawn the roots supported by older tentacles of anti-Semitism, surviving from a crime that defined French prejudices long before the two world wars. Alfred Dreyfus was a thoroughly assimilated Jew, a captain in an elite regiment of the French Army who was falsely convicted of treason in 1894, almost solely simply because he was a Jew.
When the writer Emil Zola rose to the defense of Dreyfus in a newspaper article famously titled, "J'accuse," the newspaper sold 200,000 copies in a day. "J'accuse" was the literary equivalent of "Je suis Charlie." Zola had to flee the country, and many years passed before the innocence of Dreyfus was unequivocally established.
Anti-Semitism runs deep in France, and it's no coincidence that the Dreyfus case and the controversy inspired the founding document of Zionism, "The Jewish State," by Theodor Herzl, a reporter who covered the trial for a Viennese newspaper. Herzl, like Dreyfus, was a cultured and assimilated Jew, but he was persuaded that there was no room left for the Jews of Europe, however assimilated. He heard the chants in the streets of Paris after the trial, crying "Death to the Jews!" Herzl concluded that the only way for Jews to feel safe in the world was to live in a state they could call their own. The Holocaust would give further evidence.
Many Jews in France are coming anew to Theodore Herzl's conclusion, that they will feel safe only in Israel. Nearly 7,000 of them left for Israel before the recent murders, and another 10,000 are expected to leave before the end of this year. A new poll suggests that 74 percent of French Jews are considering leaving; Israel is the most likely destination.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Paris to join the unity march after the massacres, invited French Jews to Israel. "Israel," he said, "is your home."
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls disagreed, counting what France would lose. "Without its Jews, France would not be France," he said, and acknowledged that "anti-Zionism" is only a cover for anti-Semitism. France, he said, has a problem with both.
Germany counted a similar exodus in the years after Hitler imposed the Third Reich. Much of its cultural life was drained away. The catalogue of accomplished writers, artists, critics, composers, movie directors and scientists who fled to America in the 1930s is a revealing record of what Europe lost when these Jews went into exile. Albert Einstein was only the most famous of them. A new study by Stanford University found that U.S. patents increased by 31 percent in fields common to Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany. This had a rippling effect, attracting researchers to America for generations afterwards.
The Islamists, like the Nazis and the exploiters of Dreyfus before them, do not necessarily target specific Jews or Israelis, but project their hatreds onto the race.
A Jew by their perverted lights becomes a nasty metaphor for everything they hate. The radical Muslims refer to Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat as "a Jew," which he certainly is not, after he joined Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Israel for a search for peace that in 1978 earned both men the Nobel Peace Prize. As long ago as the eighth century, Sunnis denounced Shiites as "Jews in their midst," the evil lurking in all the "others."
The French government has promised to guard their Jews at synagogues, schools and "sensitive sites," but it's not at all clear that this, both well-meaning and welcome, will sustain the collective spirit that spread through Europe when millions of men and women marched across Paris and other cities to protest the Islamist terror. Orchestrated marches in reaction to tragedy can't sustain that spirit.
If Jews continue to leave France, emptying the country of a strong element of its character, it would, in the words of Claude Lanzmann, the French filmmaker of the Holocaust documentary "Shoah," award Hitler and his Nazis a "posthumous victory." Can that be possible seven decades after the world thought it had eradicated that vicious evil? The world is watching.
I care about America, and I know in this country, they come now for Christians, whether it’s Hollywood, schools, city hall.
I watched a show on the rise of the Nazi’s last night on PBS. It was stunningly like the rise of Islamic terrorists.
“They were expected to conform to a culture of brutality.”
I think we in the West have a hard time understanding that concept. But we’d better get it through our thick skulls — while we still have them attached to our necks.
Anyway, I highly recommend the PBS program. More about it here: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365396415/
The hour I watched last night was about the SS……perhaps no coincidence that the islamists call themselves ISIS.
Where will today's catalogue of accomplished U.S. Individuals flee to when the Socialist liberals complete their takeover of this country's government?
Excuse me for laughing but conflating Vichyite collaborators in WWII with Muslim Arab immigrants?
Please. This is stupid. As an example, does anyone think that the Front National likes mass Muslim immigration into France?
This is a pathetic attempt to equate the French Right wing with Nazis.
The Muslims are the problem. They were thrown out of France 1300 years ago and are not welcome back. The French Right is wholly in favor of drop kicking them back to the Middle East. It was the Socialists like Hollande, Royal and their Soixante Huitard idiot forebears that brought the savages into the Banlieus.
Miami
17,000 Jews this year. Sounds like Gaza would be a great home for them.
Just have to move some things around.
Intestinal worms.. hidden parasites..
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I wonder how many times Jewish people will be condemned to re-learn the lessons of the holocaust? Specifically that all of the good intentions in the world aren’t worth a pitcher of warm sh!t without the physical means of self defense at your disposal.
Jewish people in France remain disarmed and as such they are lambs waiting for the slaughter. The sooner they leave to safer locales where self defense is considered a human right, the better off they’ll be. It’ll take France all of five minutes to get over their departure, in much the same way it took France all of five minutes to get over their complicity and collaboration with the third reich in the 1940’s.
Je suis Charlie Martel.
Unless someone starts killing the antisemites of France, all this lovey-dovey talk isn’t going to change a damned thing.
A bunch of dead Islamists and French-collaborationists would be a sign of a reformation and house-cleaning. Anything else is just verbal bullshit (i.w. cowardice of the mouth).
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