Fearing for lives, Jews in France flee

The Detroit News ^ | January 17 2003 | Jocelyn Gecker/AP

[knighthawk]

PARIS -- Jewish parents tell their sons not to wear yarmulkes. A rabbi is stabbed. Elderly women are frisked before entering synagogues -- just in case. As the stresses of being Jewish in France multiply, some feel it safer to hide their religion. Others have decided the only solution is to pack up and leave -- more than twice as many as a year earlier, according to statistics by the Jewish Agency.

[knighthawk]

Later that day, Farhi was preparing for Sabbath services when the synagogue doorbell rang. As he opened the door, he says, an attacker in a motorcycle helmet lunged forward with a knife, shouted "God is great!" in Arabic and fled.

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[knighthawk]

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[putupon]

Fearing for lives, Jews in France flee

A smart move, get out while the gettings good. Just wondering though, what was the average French Jew's opinion, support, whatever on all the "enlightened" Euro-leftist diversity, inclusiveness, etc. blather while the Mohammadan hordes were taking over?

[dennisw]

As he opened the door, he says, an attacker in a motorcycle helmet lunged forward with a knife, shouted "God is great!" in Arabic and fled.

They also scream Allah Akbar when they crash airplanes into our buildings. We or the Israelis should write Allah Akbar on the nuclear tipped cruise missile sent to Mecca.

 

[Sam Cree]

So, knighthawk, I guess most of these anti semitic incidents emanate from within the Muslim community?

[rmvh]

re your # 5

Straight question...no curve ball: Jews have been disliked and maligned in every country through the ages....Why?

Is it really because people feel threatened by their religious theology?..That seems unlikely

Where exactly does the problem lie?

[mdmathis6]

If Satan could have all descendents of Abraham thru Jacob be destroyed, it would prove that God could not keep his promise to Abraham that his line would be established for-ever...the Bible talks about the destruction of all creation and the cessation of God's authority should the descendents of Abraham perish...I'll find the reference shortly, it's in the old testament. That's why they have demonically been singled out for destruction thru-out history, as well as being the subject of various judgments that God has pronounced against them....but God will judge them, Christians are to pray for them and support them, as the blessed descendents of Abraham!

[Catspaw]

Last spring, President Jacques Chirac insisted there was no anti-Semitism in France

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

[Hank Kerchief]

But relations are tense between France's large Jewish and Muslim communities, and many fear a war in Iraq will trigger renewed violence.

There are 600,000 Jews and over 5,000,000 Muslims in France. The Jewish population, for the most part, is productive and a threat to no one. The Muslim population is is primarily a welfare drain on the French economy which is now driving out a much smaller productive segment of the population, anti-semitic, anti-culture, and very destructive. Guess which the French government is promoting and protecting. If the US keeps buying the PC multicultural slop our leaders, like GWB are putting out about Islam, we'll be next.

France Creates Muslim Council

How come there isn't a "Jewish Council"?

Hank

[Tijeras_Slim]

I guess most of these anti semitic incidents emanate from within the Muslim community?

The muslim community may be the seed of anti-semitism, but France provides a particularly fertile soil for it.

[Petronski]

Damn strange. I'm currently working on a book about the French Resistance and I have recently been studying the period surrounding 'le Debacle' in June 1940. They had such news stories then, too.

[agrace]

Thanks for this article, it is quite timely for me - last night my husband and I watched Victory (1980 movie with Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine about a soccer match between Allied POWs and Germany during WW2) and our ensuing conversation was about how Europe largely maintains the suicidal attitudes of pre-WW2, only this time the threat is Islam. He's reluctant to believe that Islam is that malevolent. I forwarded the link to him at work and I think I'll be sending him a few more of your finds in the future as well. Thanks for maintaining your ping list.

[philosofy123]

I dare to think that it is (the clash between Moslems and Jews in France) only temporary? Jews encountered lots of trouble with blacks in the eighties in Brooklyn N.Y., the crisis past. France has lots of Moslem youth, who are learning to hate Jews from the Saudi funded mosques. Once we cut the funding, and cool the Israeli-Arab tension, most of the violence will subside. French Jews are an integral part of the French society, they should never leave. France needs them. France should start deporting violent Moslems, and close mosques that preaches hate. These worthless Moslems, last week, placed explosives in one Paris’s most beautiful churches, Sacre Coeur. No one is suggesting that Catholic French people should run away to Rome?

Vive La France

[agrace]

Hey, basically what I said below your post. And since you are working on such a book, I have a question - can you recommend a good book account of WW2, events leading up to it and the war itself? Anyone else feel free to suggest resources also, thanks.

[facedown]

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[ricpic]

Clearly, with 9/11 we have entered "a time of troubles."

It is uncanny, the extent to which, anti-semitism rises, worldwide, in such periods.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Most people are unaware that over a century ago, it was not Germany, but France, that was arguably the most anti-semetic country in Europe. It was everywhere, of course, but in few other places was it so openly talked about and acted upon. L'affaire Dreyfus was just the one of many indicators of this. In many ways, France is simply coming full circle back to where they left off.

[nina0113]

The best I've ever seen is "Delivered From Evil" by Robert Leckie. It begins with the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, has mini-biographies of all the major players, lots of maps, great bibliography for further reading. The author served in the Pacific, and includes himself as "Lucky". One of my favorite stories is about the water-cooled machine guns running out of water, & the American in charge (I believe Manila John Basilone) said "P!ss on 'em!" - meaning it literally.