Information on the hair-raising rise in antisemitic acts and attitudes in France can be found here: “Half of French People Adhere to Over 6 Antisemitic Prejudices, 12% Happy to See Jews Leave Country: Survey,” Algemeiner, November 22, 2024:
Last month, a man wearing a sports jersey with the words “Anti-Jew” written in French was photographed riding the Paris metro, prompting an investigation by law enforcement and outcry from Jewish leaders who lamented what they described as public indifference to surging antisemitism in France.
Days earlier, a visibly Jewish teenager was assaulted by two youths as he was leaving a metro station in the northwest suburbs of Paris.
Both “youths” were Muslims.
That incident followed three men brutally attacking a Jewish woman at the entrance to her home in Paris on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities. The victim stated that the assailants threatened her with a box knife, made antisemitic threats, and mentioned the events of last Oct. 7.
The perpetrators of the attack on the Jewish woman in her home were also Muslims.
In September, a kosher restaurant in Villeurbanne, near the eastern city of Lyon, was defaced with red paint and tagged with the message “Free Gaza.”
The incident came days after French police arrested a 33-year-old Algerian man suspected of trying to set a synagogue ablaze in the southern French city of la Grande-Motte.
Two months earlier, an elderly Jewish woman was attacked in a Paris suburb by two assailants who punched her in the face, pushed her to the ground, and kicked her while hurling antisemitic slurs, including “dirty Jew, this is what you deserve.”
The attackers in all of these cases have been Muslims.
In another egregious attack that garnered international headlines, a 12-year-old Jewish girl was raped by three Muslim boys in a different Paris suburb on June 15. The child told investigators that the assailants called her a “dirty Jew” and hurled other antisemitic comments at her during the attack. In response to the incident, French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the “scourge of antisemitism” plaguing his country.
Macron can denounce the ”scourge of antisemitism” all he wants, but he does not do what is necessary to bring this “scourge” under control. This would include ending all immigration by Muslims and the prompt deportation of any Muslims who are in France illegally, or if legally in the country, they have committed crimes for which they could be deported, and, by agreement with authorities in their countries of origin,, be imprisoned in their own countries rather than in France. Macron should monitor all the mosques and close all those where “radical” — i.e., undiluted — Islam is preached, and deport any imams who inveigh against the Jews. The punishment for hate crimes — in France more than two-thirds of such crimes are antisemitic in nature — should be made much more severe. A sentence of ten years would instill fear in those who have until now been targeting Jews under the assumption that, if caught, they will be imprisoned for only a year or two.
Around the same time in June, an Israeli family visiting Paris was denied service at a hotel after an attendant noticed their Israeli passports….
The hotel attendant was a Muslim.
The elephant in the room is France’s Muslim population. Muslims now make up 10% of the total French population. They make up even more — 15% — of the 18-to-35 year old population. All believing Muslims can be described as antisemitic. So the 17% of “French” people — Muslim and non-Muslim — under the age of 35 who believe that France would be better off without its Jews, turns out to be explicable as a Muslim matter. For fully 15% of those 17% are Muslims, and only 2% of the non-Muslim French under the age of 35 believe that France would be better off with out its Jews. It is the same with the other statistics — you have to calculate the number of Muslims included in the opinion polls of the “French” to see what is really going on. Keep in mind that while Muslims make up 10% of the total population, their percentage of the population rises the younger the cohort. Muslims are united in their low opinion of Jews and their desire to see them leave France.
One more example. Among France’s general population, 12 percent of people say they are happy to see Jews leave the country, up from just 6 percent in 2020. But 10% of that general population consists of Muslims. So again, only 2% of the non-Muslim population say they would be happy if Jews left France.
The only poll that can offer a true picture of antisemitic attitudes is one that breaks down the population being queried between Muslims and non-Muslims. While the Muslims are almost entirely opposed to the Jewish presence in France, and harbor every antisemitic stereotype, the percentage of non-Muslims opposed to the Jews turns out to be far less than what is being reported for the population as a whole.
There is still a problem of antisemitism in France, but it is no longer mainly a French problem. It is, rather, a problem with the Muslims who now live in France, carrying the virus of antisemitism with them and spreading it, whenever they can, to non-Muslims, making the lives of French Jews much more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than would be the case without that large-scale presence of Muslims. Do the people of France want to retain their Jewish population, or are they prepared, by continuing to admit Muslim immigrants and failing to deport those Muslims who commit crimes or have been in the country illegally, to see French Jews, who have contributed so much to French culture and society, deciding to leave for Israel or North America?
That, in truth, is the “Great Replacement” that counts the most — not white people replaced by black and brown people, in America, but Muslims replacing Jews in the countries of Western Europe.
John1 says
I wonder what percent of the population would be happy if all Muslims left France?
Greyhound Fancier says
100% perhaps? And, when’s the last time you heard of a Jewish person vandalizing a church or attacking a priest?
skeptiker says
Die Muslime werden langsam zu einem gefährlichen Problem für den Westen. Wenn erst einmal der Kipppunkt überschritten wurde , kommt eine Lawine ins Rollen, die in ihrer Zerstörungskraft kaum noch aufzuhalten ist. Wenn Muslime 1 bis 2% der Bevölkerung ausmachen, sind sie eine Bereicherung und passen sich den Gesetzen und der Kultur des Gastlandes an. Die muslimischen Migranten sind die einzigen, die in jedem Land Probleme mit der Integration haben. Alle anderen Einwanderer integrieren sich problemlos und leisten ihren Beitrag für das Wohlergehen des Landes. Sie sind dankbar für die Chancen die ihnen geboten werden. Der Islam verbietet ja ausdrücklich eine Assimilierung und bestraft jeden gnadenlos mit dem Tod, der sich dem widersetzt. Die Lösung kann nur eine radikale Abkehr von dieser Ideologie sein und die Zuwanderung aus diesen Ländern unbedingt begrenzen oder einstellen. Jede Anzeichen von Radikalität, egal ob in den Moscheen oder in den Schulen müssen konsequent geahndet und bekämpft werden. Null-Toleranz-Politik wäre dringend angebracht.
James Lincoln says
Macron actually knows the source of anti-Semitism.
But France has painted itself into a corner – and Macron feels that he cannot state the truth about the effects of mass muslim migration.