‘They Spit When I Walked in the Street’: The ‘New Anti-Semitism’ in France

Another horror story about Jews living in Islamized France. Every day it is becoming more apparent that life for French Jews is untenable. The French government says that they want their Jews to stay in France. However, they are unwilling and incapable of confronting France’s growing Muslim population, because of the political consequences such a stance would bring them.

For example, in a city such as Marseilles, which is close to 40% Muslim, can one expect Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin to have a strong stance against Muslim anti-Semitism? Absolutely not. How can Gaudin condemn much of Marseilles’ Muslim community for its anti-Semitism? He can’t. He would never be reelected. The French Muslim population’s massive voting power is what is preventing most French politicians (including President Macron) from condemning French Muslims for their violent Jew-hatred.

What is shocking is that much of the U.S Jewish leadership is condemning President Trump for his travel ban, which includes several Muslim/Jihad countries. One must question their sanity and agenda, since most of them know the consequences that mass Muslim immigration has had on France’s Jews. U.S Jews should be supporting the good President wholeheartedly, since he is preventing (or at least reducing) this horror from reaching the United States.

Israel must also do a better job of integrating French Jews (especially with medical degrees) into Israeli society. Many French degrees are not recognized in Israel. French Jews are being forced to deal with unacceptable levels of bureaucracy, (although improvements are slowly being made) before their professional credentials are recognized. This is causing many Jews to postpone their immigration to Israel and instead remain in France. It is outrageous for Israel to put French Jewish immigrants through such an ordeal. Most French Jews are very Zionist, and want to immigrate to Israel. The Israeli government must make it easier for French Jews to do just that.

“‘They Spit When I Walked in the Street’: The ‘New Anti-Semitism’ in France,” by Adam Nossiter, New York Times, July 27, 2018:

PARIS — The solemn boulevards and quiet side streets of the 17th Arrondissement in Paris suggest Jewish life in France is vibrant: There is a new profusion of kosher groceries and restaurants, and about 15 synagogues, up from only a handful two decades ago.

But for residents like Joanna Galilli, this area in northwestern Paris represents a tactical retreat. It has become a haven for many Jews who say they have faced harassment in areas with growing Muslim populations. Ms. Galilli, 28, moved to the neighborhood this year from a Parisian suburb where “anti-Semitism is pretty high,” she said, “and you feel it enormously.”

“They spit when I walked in the street,” she said, describing reactions when she wore a Star of David.

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France has a painful history of anti-Semitism, with its worst hours coming in the 1930s and during the German occupation in World War II. But in recent months, an impassioned debate has erupted over how to address what commentators are calling the “new anti-Semitism,” as Jewish groups and academic researchers trace a wave of anti-Semitic acts to France’s growing Muslim population.

Nearly 40 percent of violent acts classified as racially or religiously motivated were committed against Jews in 2017, though Jews make up less than 1 percent of France’s population. Anti-Semitic acts increased by 20 percent from 2016, a rise the Interior Ministry called “preoccupying.”

In 2011, the French government stopped categorizing those deemed responsible for anti-Semitic acts, making it more difficult to trace the origins. But before then, Muslims had been the largest group identified as perpetrators, according to research by a leading academic. Often the spikes in violence coincided with flare-ups in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, according to researchers….