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Posted on 07/07/2024 8:36:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
French Jews fear they may have “no future” in the country after the far-left’s victories in the parliamentary elections over the weekend.
As Breitbart News reported, French President Emmanuel Macron’s alliance with the New Popular Front delivered a victory over the Marine Le Penn’s populist right, which has sparked concerns about rising antisemitism.
Moshe Sebbag, a rabbi for the Synagogue de la Victoire, told the Times of Israel that “it seems France has no future for Jews” while advising young Jews in the country to leave for Israel.
“But people my age, who are 50, 60, we’ve made our life here and we fear for the future of our children,” he said.
While Moshe Sebbag certainly did not welcome the New Popular Front victories, he ultimately lamented about the mainstreaming of antisemitism in general.
French-Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy said this weekend’s victories mark a rise in the “new antisemitism.”
“The left is once again kidnapped by the infamous Melenchon. Divisive language. Hate of the republic on the lips. Around him right now are some incarnations of the new antisemitism. A chilling moment. A stain: Continue to fight against these people,” French-Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote on X.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the France Unbowed far-left party, or LFI, previously called French Jews “an arrogant minority that lectures to the rest” and is even “on record in an earlier speech as celebrating anti-Israel protesters days after some of them stormed a synagogue, condemning in that speech only French Jews who demonstrated to show solidarity with Israel,” according to the outlet.
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It’s France... who gives a shxt. They can rot like Ukraine.
Good. Y’all have been sitting on your butts for years and sending money to the wrong sorts. This will be a “reap the whirlwind” time for you.
Didn’t your ancestors warn you about trying to pay off Nazis? Doesn’t work. There is never enough money.
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Gee, a large contingent of Jews worldwide support socialism and Marxism. Now the conservative Jews are speaking out.
There were Jews in Nazi Germany that supported Hitler.
So strange to hear Jews fear the far left.
Jean-Luc Melenchon yesterday called for ARABIC to be made an official language in France
so leave and take your money with you
The name “New Popular Front” is scary
Splitters!
Thought the headlines were the right was going to prevail. Guess that was wrong, again.
You are 100% correct.
It will be interesting to see how the Olympics in Paris play out in a couple of weeks given the election outcome.
From what I saw another commenter say last week, I think there are two parts to that. The conservatives won prime minister or president or whatever they have. Since they have a parliamentary system, they elect the rest of the government separately and evidently the current PM or whatever can schedule it. By scheduling it immediately he made it almost impossible to form a coalition and evidently the Commies had a coalition ready to go.
I don't have it 100%, but I think that's the general idea; their parliamentary system has variables our representative republic does not and so things happen that don't make sense to us.
This explains it better.
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