With French Jews Under Constant Antisemitic Threat, 38% Consider Making Aliyah

France has been admitting hundreds of thousands of Muslims annually as “refugees,” though they are, in fact, no longer threatened by violence in their home countries. They arrive as economic migrants, expecting to fatten on all the benefits that the generous French state provides, including free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances (and Muslims have large families), unemployment benefits (even without a record of employment), and more. And this growing Muslim population presents a direct threat to the security and wellbeing of French Jews. More than one out of four French Jews say they have been harassed or attacked in the last year. Sixty-eight percent of them say they no longer feel safe in France. Thirty-eight percent of them — 200,000 — say they are contemplating making Aliyah to Israel. Half of French Jews now hide their identity. More on this frightening situation can be found here.

Having opened their gates to refugees fleeing the violence in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, many European nations are now flooded with unemployed Muslims, threatening the stability of their host countries.

The demographic changes taking place in capital cities and exclusively Muslim-populated areas, the rise of global Islamic radicalism, and the terrible disaster that befell Israel on October 7, have resulted in right-wing parties’ victories in European countries.

In Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, and Finland the Right has significantly increased its electoral power.

In the elections to the French Parliament, however, stinging losses were felt by the far-Right National Union party led by Marine Le Pen, who spearheads the opposition to Muslim immigration to France. Following very favorable preliminary results, she went on to garner a mere 143 seats and was unable to form a government….

Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National came in third in the recent elections for the French Parliament, in part because the hard-left La France Insoumise and Macron’s Renaissance Party agreed to help each other by withdrawing their own candidates in districts where the other party had a better chance of defeating the candidate of the Rassemblement National. And alas, the strategy worked.

The statements of the extreme Left, led by [Jean-Luc] Mélenchon, who may become an important element in the next government, should worry Israel and the Jews of France.

Mélenchon has never acknowledged the October 7 massacre by Hamas, refuses to condemn the terrorist organization and has accused Israel of genocide.

He supports fellow La France Insoumise party member, French Syrian-Palestinian Rima Hassan, who is in the business of spreading extreme conspiracy theories regarding Israel….

Rima Hassan, the Franco-Palestinian who is Mélenchon’s close adviser, has made outrageous claims of IDF barbarity and “war crimes,” and in June, she claimed that the IDF had “trained dogs to rape” Palestinian prisoners. This preposterous charge did not bother Mélenchon, who passed over Hassan’s remark in silence, and continues to rely on her for advice about Israel and the Palestinians.

The French newspaper Le Parisien announced this week that France would soon take in citizens from Gaza.

Two hundred Gazan refugees had already arrived in France in February….

These “Gazan refugees” — with many more to come — will bring with them to France a deep hatred for Jews, and no doubt many will take part with other Muslims already in the Hexagon in attacking — what fun! — French Jews; such attacks have already increased by 284%, that is, by nearly three times, in the past year. Apparently the French state feels no responsibility to make French Jews safe; it is actively encouraging Gazan “refugees” — who virulently hate Israelis and Jews — to settle in France.

French security services recently arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of planning a series of terrorist attacks at the Paris Olympics….

The Shin Bet heads the Israeli delegation’s security system and began to raise its level of preparedness a few months ago.

The number of Israeli security guards is expected to be high, and there will be additional operational and intelligence cooperation with authorized local security forces….

Security is mainly focused on Olympic delegation members (athletes and staff) but the Shin Bet is also taking into account the thousands of Israeli spectators who will be arriving in Paris….

The Shin Bet recommends that Israelis stay away from hot spots.

It sounds as if the entire Olympic Village, where the athletes and trainers live, and the stadiums and other sites where the various competitions take place, are all “hot spots.” So are the streets of Paris, where roaming gangs of Muslims will be looking for Israelis to attack. The Israeli visitors to the Games are nowhere going to be assured of safety. Nor will French Jews.

Should French Jews be encouraged to make Aliyah? By leaving, they damage the morale of those Jews who remain in France, leading to a stream becoming a torrent. The political power of French Jews decreases pari passu as their numbers decrease. And Israel needs that demographic presence in order to fight, inside France, for policies favorable, or a least not more unfavorable, to the Jewish state.

Imagine, as a thought experiment , that all of Europe’s Jews were to make Aliyah. That would ensure that every country in Europe would have no domestic opposition to anti-Israel policies; the abandonment of Israel by Europe would be complete. It’s better for Israel if the Jews of Europe remain where they are, defending Israel on the battlefield of public opinion, and preventing, whenever they can, the likes of the antisemite Jean-Luc Mélenchon, from coming to power.