Things have only gotten worse': French Jews are fleeing their country

[Alan]

Growing up in Paris, Esther Coscas felt safe. Her home was in the heart of “Little Jerusalem,” a neighborhood in the suburb of Sarcelles dotted with kosher restaurants and shops bearing Hebrew names. Jews and Arabs lived side by side. While there was occasional friction, Coscas, who is Jewish, never feared for her life.

That changed in the summer of 2014, when pro-Palestinian demonstrations disintegrated into attacks on the Jewish community. Chanting “Death to the Jews,” protestors smashed windows and burned Jewish businesses, barricading congregants inside a synagogue and attempting to burn it down. Coscas, now 30, had just become a mother. She began to fear for her family’s future in France. Her siblings had already moved to Israel, but she wanted to stay near her parents.

Then, a year ago, the cloud of anti-Semitism came so close to home that she could no longer avoid it. Her best friend, who lived on the same street, was attacked on her way home by a group of young men who called her a dirty Jew and punched her in the face, breaking her nose. That night, Coscas knew that she would be moving.

Facing record levels of anti-Semitism, many French Jews are joining an exodus to Israel. A third of all the French Jews who’ve emigrated to Israel since its establishment in 1948 have done so in the last 10 years, according to data from the Jewish Agency, which facilitates Jewish immigration to Israel. The 1950 Law of Return enables any Jew from around the world to become an Israeli citizen entitled to numerous government benefits, including financial aid, tax breaks, free Hebrew courses, and a free flight to Israel. In 2015 alone, nearly 8,000 French Jews made what is known as Aliyah—ascent to the Holy Land—the largest number from any Western nation in a single year.

Why French Jews are leaving France

Facing record levels of anti-Semitism, members of Europe's largest Jewish population seek a new life in Israel—and face new challenges.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[Ninja'd]

It's 1940 all over again.

 

[satanboy]

It's 1940 all over again.

Can't be, I can see colour outside.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Before the Holocaust, it was widely believed that the French were the most anti-Semitic nation in Europe (e.g. Dreyfus Affair)

 

[jack_spratt]

Strong irony

 

[TheJman]

History repeats itself...

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Is it the typical antisemitism or intolerant and violent muslims, or both ..... article is not 100% clear. Either way, safer to gtfo

 

[surface]

Is it the typical antisemitism or intolerant and violent muslims, or both ..... article is not 100% clear. Either way, safer to gtfo

Wasn't this caused by pro-palestine protestors in France? Below is the charter of Hamas.

The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (the Boxthorn tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews. (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).Sahih Muslim, 41:6985, see also Sahih Muslim, 41:6981, Sahih Muslim, 41:6982, Sahih Muslim, 41:6983, Sahih Muslim, 41:6984, Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:56:791,(Sahih al-Bukhari, 4:52:177)

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Wasn't this caused by pro-palestine protestors in France? Below is the charter of Hamas.

It does mention them bastards yeah but it then goes on to say - Her best friend, who lived on the same street, was attacked on her way home by a group of young men who called her a dirty Jew and punched her in the face, breaking her nose - which could be the same bastards but could also easily be neo-nazi types because France has those swine too. Horrible situation regardless, I was just curiously wondering I suppose.

 

[Nanfeishen]

Is it the typical antisemitism or intolerant and violent muslims, or both ..... article is not 100% clear. Either way, safer to gtfo

Driven by intolerant and violent Muslims
The OP refers to the 2014 Sarcelle riots

Since the beginning of the 21st century, antisemitism in France has found new sources of recruitment from certain leftist groups and in the identification of a significant proportion of the Muslim immigrant population with the Palestinian cause on the one hand and with radical Islamism on the other

2014 Sarcelles riots - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Bewlen]

Strangely no condemnation of these actions from our government. Not a peep.

 

[The Trutherizer]

Wasn't this caused by pro-palestine protestors in France? Below is the charter of Hamas.

That's their charter?! What? Are they infants?

 

[surface]

That's their charter?! What? Are they infants?

I do not know of infants that blow people. Maybe I am in wrong circle.

 

[The Trutherizer]

I do not know of infants that blow people. Maybe I am in wrong circle.

I get what you're saying. Still. It sounds like it was drafted about 2000 years ago. Just surprised.

 

[surface]

I get what you're saying. Still. It sounds like it was drafted about 2000 years ago. Just surprised.

yeah. 2000 years ago stuff was similar to 1400 years ago stuff. I am never surprised at this.

 

[bwana]

I do not know of infants that blow people. Maybe I am in wrong circle.

You'd be in the wrong circle if you did.

 

[C4Cat]

Before the Holocaust, it was widely believed that the French were the most anti-Semitic nation in Europe (e.g. Dreyfus Affair)

May have been believed but who knows - the world turned their backs on the Jews, for the most part (e.g. Évian Conference)

 

[Mekon]

Anyone read the "The Strange Death Of Europe" ??
The idiotic liberal left are responsible for the decline of Europe. Merkel, Macron, May, Löfven are traitors to the west.

 

[rietrot]

Thank Soros for shipping all the refugees in.

 

[C4Cat]

Anyone read the "The Strange Death Of Europe" ??
The idiotic liberal left are responsible for the decline of Europe. Merkel, Macron, May, Löfven are traitors to the west.

It looks like a good book actually (I just bought the audible version, so will give it a go). Like all books though, and history in general, it will present an incomplete story of Europe and the reasons why Europe is as it is today.

When talking about the 'decline' of Europe, what are you talking about exactly? Decline from when? It's more peaceful in Europe now than in previous times and Europe is thriving economically with the EU as a whole being the second wealthiest and second largest economy in the world - so from which point has it declined?