Posted on 11/23/2015 7:32:38 PM PST by Nachum
Birthright Israel, the charity founded in 1999 to bring young Jews on trips to Israel, has witnessed an unprecedented increase in participation among French citizens over the past two years.
The Observer has learned that 2500 French Jews will have visited Israel as part of the program this year—more than double the 1100 who went last year and a stunning 2400% increase over the 98 who visited as program participants in 2013.
The gains come amid a string of high-profile attacks by radical Islamists in France, many targeting Jewish institutions. In March 2012, three linked shootings in Toulouse and Montauban targeted French military personnel as well as four people at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school, where a self-identified mujaheed who claimed ties to al-Qaeda killed a rabbi who shielded his two sons from attack and then shot one of the boys as he crawled away, and then shot an 8-year-old girl at point blank range while he held her by her braids. Early this year, the office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was attacked as 11 people were killed by gunmen identifying themselves as Al-Qaeda while their accomplice, who identified with ISIS, took hostages in a kosher market and killed four of them before being killed himself.
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That's all?
I think all Jews are going to want to leave these countries or institutions that cater to 3rd World types. Same with college campuses.
Great idea .... I would say adieu too.....
Click bait
“Bolt for” has different connotations than “visit.”
Wonder if they will take Westerners who will revoke their American/Euro citizenship.
I “could” consider it, if the pendulum does not swing back HARD and SOON.
Birthright Israel is not “bolting” for Israel. It’s just a 10 day trip—and a free one at that. Surprised more people don’t take advantage of it.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans killed and maimed in two world wars, including members of my family as well as virtually every FReeper and for what? So these chicken sh!t Euro-weenies can let hordes of hostile, malevolent worthless Saracen bastards lay waste to it all? Less Parisians were killed on the day Paris was liberated in August 1944 than were slaughtered a week ago. Good God Almighty.
"Bolt for" has different connotations than "visit."
Yep. The increase is probably due to increased funds available. Birthright is not an emigration organization.
Do you mean like Avis?
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/11/should-a-jew-rent-from-avis.php
Here’s hoping more come to the US instead.
Yes, what other explanation could there possibly be?
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"In Western Europe, no nation has seen the climate for Jews deteriorate more than France."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-new-anti-semitism-rising-in-france/2014/06/19/1da8ae34-1a71-4f50-893a-9842af51e3ce_story.html
Any Jew living in Europe after WWII is nuts.
This is what happens when the political leader of this stupid country start saying Israel was a mistake or is not a real country. The arrogance’s wage is that of poetic justice of seeing France getting deserted, slaughtered like sheeps and overwhelmed with migrants and islamic births.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Gee. I wonder why. It can’t be all that random violence in France, can it?
I’ve heard that there’s a $5,000 tax on renouncing US citizenship, and that unless you do, you still have to file US tax returns while abroad. One of these days, I may even file a 1040 or three. It’s been a while. Definitely, I am voting in all US elections. They mess with me, I’ll mess with them.
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