The recent French elections and the far left victory is leading to nervousness among France’s Jews. Islamic antisemitism rose to alarming levels during the surge of Muslim migration to France in 2015 and the years thereafter. Open-door migration has come to define leftist politics.
Since 2020, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) has been “working on a plan to bring hundreds of thousands of French Jews to Israel.” The population of Jews in France is roughly 453,000.
WZO Vice-Chair Yaakov Hagoel said at that time: “Anti-Semitism is increasing and France is surrendering to jihad.”
And in 2018, Ricard Abitbol, President of the Confederation of Jews in France, declared: “In a few decades, there will be no Jews in France….We can be hurt by words, but we don’t mind, but when we are hurt by a knife, a gun, you can’t say I don’t mind.”
Since October 7, the Palestinian “resistance” has gone global, further threatening Jews everywhere. Palestinian propaganda is rife in the West, and fully protected by the woke ideology, in which Muslims are the perceived victims, despite a 1,400-year history that proves otherwise. The history of Israel’s founding shows the “resistance” is really about obliterating the state of Israel, which Islamic supremacists consider to be an affront to Islam.
Islam managed to conquer the entire Middle East via the sword, and hold it all with the exception of Israel. Yet it is the tiny state of Israel that suffers international persecution to this day. Leftist leaders have proven themselves to be biased against Israel and uncritically supportive of the Palestinian cause.
“Dan” in the story below has identified the role of the alliance between the left and “radical Muslims” in the escalation of antisemitism.
France and other European countries could well see an exodus to Israel in the coming years, which could mean a brain drain.
Traitorous Western globalist leaders, however, will continue to prosper on the backs of taxpayers.
“French-Israelis call on Jews to flee France and join them,” by Thomas Helm, The National, July 7, 2024:
As the line grew at a boarding gate in Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, Dan waited by a plug socket charging his phone until the last minute before joining the throng of mostly French Jews bound for Marseille.
Israel’s carrier, El Al, makes the trip five times a week. Marseille is home to France’s second-largest Jewish community, numbering about 80,000 people. After the US, France has the biggest Jewish community outside Israel.
Dan was going back to vote in France’s snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron in June.
The election, which held its second round on July 7, sparked huge debate among French-Israelis about the future of the Republic and more particularly about the future of French Jews, who say they desperately need the state to step up and tackle spiralling anti-Semitism.
Dan said he would be voting for the far right, something that would have been unthinkable not so long ago, having been established by openly antisemitic politicians.
Despite the far right’s history, Dan was certain about his choice. “There is an urgent need to stop the far left, which has allied itself with radical Muslims – if we don’t stop it France will become even more dangerous for Jews,” he said.
Other Israelis have given up on France entirely and are calling for all French Jews to migrate to Israel, despite the country being in the middle of a war with Hamas in Gaza and possibly facing another more devastating one with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.…
mgoldberg says
As a Jew, and one who does go to an observant shul, I disagree with such calls. Yes… if one wanted to make ‘Aliya’ to Israel, sure- go for it.
But to abandon any nation to these venal rats is wrong on so many levels. To abandon the freedoms and gifts that these lands gave to Jews- and yes I understand the limitations of that- is to negate their value. And the nations deserve to have their best people stand up and defend the liberties, laws and economies that gave them their lives. I am an American and I’m not abandoning America, even if I one day buy a home in Israel. If I was a brit, or Canadian, or French-whatever- I would stay and fight like hell against these mutts of hell, these doers of destruction of the Judeo-Christian civilization. We are only seeing what we naively brought with our ‘progressive’ surrenders. They can be reversed. All these window breaking thugs will enable many people to see and feel the hypocrisy of their demands and renew the spirit of the nations they’ve lived in.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I get your point, but that only makes sense when a majority of your countrymen (not referring to Israel here) agree w/ you. Had France elected the Popular Rally, or Britain elected Reform, it would have made sense for Jewish Frenchmen/Brits to remain in those countries and help their Gentile compatriots in fighting this jihadist scourge. But when both those countries have voted Left, it doesn’t make sense for Jews to remain, painting a target around themselves
As long as Jews are there, the local population, or a good portion of it at least, will say “They’re only going after Jews: why is it my problem?” Therefore, Jews leaving for Israel forces them to confront their jihadist threat earlier, rather than later, when the numbers are still not the majority everywhere. Let them battle it out, and if they prevail, even electorally in a future election, Jews can return and help them continue, or even escalate that resistance against the jihad
maria says
Yes, the situation is like in the 1939 when most local non-Jewish population didn´t care about the Jews.
And the same is now in France. They do not help the Jews and many especially young women are for the muslims and against the Jews.
They will see what will happen to them.
They will be killed or sex slaves for the muslims.
The Jews will be safe only in Israel.
Mick says
Re para 1, in WW2 the Arab and Berber Muslims of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, protected the Jews against persecution by the Vichy French and Nazis.
I know this from a family of Tunisian Jews, based now in Sarcelles, Paris.
See also wiki on Mohammed V of Morocco.
3 parts of the family moved ca 2010 to far north Israel and Ashdod. 2 have since been evacuated.
John Pepple says
It never should have gotten to this point. There have been all kinds of signs — such as the fatwa against Salman Rushdie — that Muslims were going to be a big problem for the West. But they have all been ignored by the elites, just as they ignored the signs of Biden’s mental decline.
Cia says
I disagree. It would take a revolution to uproot Islam from the non-Muslim world, and at this time it is unimaginable. But we’re now at the stage of widespread violence and pogroms against all kuffar, but especially Jews, all over the world. Why wait to leave France? Even when the National Rally wins, what is Le Pen’s plan to protect Jews? Nothing would work short of mass deportation of millions of Muslims, and I don’t see that happening. And the violence is in the blueprint of Islam, it’s not just extremists. No Muslim could protest it loudly, even if he didn’t actively participate.
somehistory says
Ezekiel prophesied that the Jews would flack back to the Land of Israel and that the Land would be attacked by the ‘hordes from the North,’ including and led by “Persia.”
Many Jews may see the need to return to Israel.
Ezekiel 38
“The army will be very large, with all the men holding battle-coverings and waving swords. 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Put will be with you, all with battlecoverings and head-coverings. 6 There will be Gomer with all its army, and Beth-togarmah from the farthest parts of the north with all its army. Many nations will be with you.
7 “Get ready and keep ready, you and all the armies gathered around you, and watch over them. 8 After many days you will be called. In future years you will come into the land where people have been gathered from many nations and have lived without fear of war. You will come to the mountains of Israel, which had been a waste land for a long time. But its people were brought out from the nations, and all of them are living without fear. 9 You and all your army will come up against them like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land. Many nations will be with you.”
Nabil Bissada says
The last election in France is the beginning of the end of Europe. I still couldn’t believe the rights of Marine Le Pen lost to the third.
If the left takes the power in France, it will be danger for the Jewish and the Christians, Catholic, Orthodox., Protestant, Baptiste, etc.
If Europe and the western countries do not wake up and understand the danger of the Muslims terrorists. Same as the Muslims countries understand the danger of the Muslims terrorists.
Europe and the western countries must deal with the Muslims terrorists by the same way Muslims countries deal with them.
We have to forget the democracy, human rights, and the freedom when we deal with Muslims terrorists. If we want to save our country and to have a secure life for us and for our next generation’s.
To whom it may concern from the western leaders.
Please understand the difference between dog, cat and snake till all are a pets
Mike says
Just a few decades ago, there were over 700,000 Jews in France, now there are barely 453,000. Pourquoi? (“Why?”)
Derek says
As it might have been expected, the French have always been quick to surrender their country and their freedom. They have done it again – the last time was in 1939 !!
Then they would expect the rest of the world to fight for them.
Pathetic. Classic Dhimmis.
Tony Rice says
Any country from which Jews leave, collapses financially, South Africa prime example
Mike says
Read the book “Hitler’s Gift.” Germany arguably lost World War 2 because of the Nazis’ anti-Semitism.
The Jews were only around one percent of the German population, yet they made up twenty percent of all the top scientists, physicists and mathematicians there.
James Lincoln says
The “real” French people need to know that the cavalry is not coming to save them.
They are on their own.
Rufolino says
Yes a tragic situation. A devastating election result.
It makes you lose hope, not only for the divine France which was once, for the visual arts, a cultural inspiration, but for all Europe.
Michael V. Wilson says
Just as the early Church had to be persecuted to drive them OUT of Israel in order to spread the Gospel to the whole world, so too, Jews have to be persecuted to drive them BACK to Israel in preparation for the End Times. God told us in the Bible this would happen.
Lady of the Lake says
They are jumping outta the frying pan into the fire