The largest Jewish community in Europe is shrinking as antisemitism, Islamist violence, and institutional denial drive thousands to question whether modern-day France is safe for Jews.
The French will rue this departure, which I heartily support. My dear departed husband Rabbi Mordecai Kieffer said that Europe does not deserve the Jews. He is correct. The French economy will suffer because of the Jews leaving. We have been kicked out of many countries, all of which suffered economically as a result. Look at Germany after WW II. Ruined. Wrecked. Had to be rescued by the Americans and their Marshall Plan. Have you noticed the outpouring of gratitude from the rulers of the European nations? Hopeless. I am amazed that people can’t see what has happened right before their eyes. Finally after paying an unspeakable price, the Jews were able to capture Israel/Judea again. Seven Arab nations attacked the next day. The Israelis were few. Many of them were refugees from the Shoah (Holocaust), frail and undernourished. They had very few weapons. It looked hopeless. Jews from the Diaspora rallied and did what they could, but against seven Arab nations? But, guess what? The Jews, the Israelis won the unprovoked war. This scenario has been repeated again and again ad nauseum. And who wins? Not easily or gladly. With misery, because the Israelis are forced to fight the Arabs, which means a lot of people are killed. Men, women and children. Israelis are decent people. The soldiers are husbands and fathers and sons and also wives, mothers and daughters. It causes the soldiers unending pain when they have to kill other people in order for Israel to survive. Jews have been through many centuries of suffering and oppression. That they have survived, when the ancient kingdoms and empires who reviled them have gone to dust, is a miracle. A miracle. And who or what ( depending upon your philosophy) is in charge of miracles? People have been trying to get rid of the Jews for thousands of years. Do you ever wonder why the Jews are still here? Read about the wonder that Judaism is. The way Jews have been obeying the Torah (Bible) and having a good time doing it even with all the suffering. We have something very precious. A holy Covenant with HaShem (God). We entered the Covenant at the foot of Mt Sinai in the desert when God gave us the Torah, which, by the way, contains 613 commandments. Some of which we can no longer obey because they have to do with the Holy Temple that the Romans destroyed in 70 AD when they kicked the Jews out of their homeland. However we do our best, at least a proportion of us do, to obey the ones that are left. Just fyi. I just wish that people would stop with this insane hatred of Jews. Please. What does it take?
A very interesting well written historical review, than you. Increasingly it seems moving to Israel is becoming the only viable way to be part of a positive society with a clear sense of identity as a homeland. The West has lost that and effectively excludes Jews from being part of a multicultural society.
I'll never forget that in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders, the French marched in the streets, wearing "Ju suis Charlie!" t-shirts, but I never saw one single person after the Jewish murders that followed wearing a Ju suis Juif T-shirt.
France is also the country that gave sanctuary to Yassir Arafat's family. They made their alliance with Muslims decades ago, partly to ensure plenty of oil from opec countries.
Now, there are "no-go" zones is Paris, ruled by islamists, where the police will neither patrol nor intervene.
Hopefully they will stop coming to Canada, now the worst Jew hating country in the English speaking world, where the Liberal government is complicit in the incitement of Jew hatred, with a huge uptick since the Irish Catholic Carney, became PM, who himself incites hatred, and has absolutely ignores the violence including arson, shootings, physical assaults, Jew hunts with machetes, while the police all look on as they are designated the bodyguards and buddies of the jihadists, and not the victims, the Jews. Courts have thrown out all but a single digit of the ones indeed arrested which is probably less than 1% of those breaking the hate crime laws. He has attempted to use the Jew hatred to unify the 2 million Muslims, most who have poured in since the Liberal came to power, seemingly mostly unvetted, despite coming from the worst radical areas of the ME and Asia, despite warnings from Canadian intelligence services. His famous statemet that he announced to the nation, was that "Muslim values are Canadian values". Yes, indeed, including I assume Sharia law, multiple wives, and all the rest. Why? He desperately needs them to vote as a bloc for the Liberal Party, which used to be centre and now has become France, Ireland, Spain and Italy all wrapped in one.
My eyes almost popped out of my head when I read that as well. Talk about going from the fry pan into the fire! Canada had already turned into something I couldn't recognize before 10/7 but now it's beyond the pale.
Before I read this essay, I had no idea of the historical dastardliness of the French. After all of the Jews are gone and the Islamists take over, the star and crescent will be flying from the Eiffel Tower and the pretty girls at the Moulin Rouge will be dancing in full length burkkahs. May they be happy with their choice.
The world’s favorite scapegoats continue to be persecuted while adherents of the most evil religion ever devised by man (or Satan) are allowed to mass migrate into the West. It official - the world has gone insane.
The French will rue this departure, which I heartily support. My dear departed husband Rabbi Mordecai Kieffer said that Europe does not deserve the Jews. He is correct. The French economy will suffer because of the Jews leaving. We have been kicked out of many countries, all of which suffered economically as a result. Look at Germany after WW II. Ruined. Wrecked. Had to be rescued by the Americans and their Marshall Plan. Have you noticed the outpouring of gratitude from the rulers of the European nations? Hopeless. I am amazed that people can’t see what has happened right before their eyes. Finally after paying an unspeakable price, the Jews were able to capture Israel/Judea again. Seven Arab nations attacked the next day. The Israelis were few. Many of them were refugees from the Shoah (Holocaust), frail and undernourished. They had very few weapons. It looked hopeless. Jews from the Diaspora rallied and did what they could, but against seven Arab nations? But, guess what? The Jews, the Israelis won the unprovoked war. This scenario has been repeated again and again ad nauseum. And who wins? Not easily or gladly. With misery, because the Israelis are forced to fight the Arabs, which means a lot of people are killed. Men, women and children. Israelis are decent people. The soldiers are husbands and fathers and sons and also wives, mothers and daughters. It causes the soldiers unending pain when they have to kill other people in order for Israel to survive. Jews have been through many centuries of suffering and oppression. That they have survived, when the ancient kingdoms and empires who reviled them have gone to dust, is a miracle. A miracle. And who or what ( depending upon your philosophy) is in charge of miracles? People have been trying to get rid of the Jews for thousands of years. Do you ever wonder why the Jews are still here? Read about the wonder that Judaism is. The way Jews have been obeying the Torah (Bible) and having a good time doing it even with all the suffering. We have something very precious. A holy Covenant with HaShem (God). We entered the Covenant at the foot of Mt Sinai in the desert when God gave us the Torah, which, by the way, contains 613 commandments. Some of which we can no longer obey because they have to do with the Holy Temple that the Romans destroyed in 70 AD when they kicked the Jews out of their homeland. However we do our best, at least a proportion of us do, to obey the ones that are left. Just fyi. I just wish that people would stop with this insane hatred of Jews. Please. What does it take?
A very interesting well written historical review, than you. Increasingly it seems moving to Israel is becoming the only viable way to be part of a positive society with a clear sense of identity as a homeland. The West has lost that and effectively excludes Jews from being part of a multicultural society.
It's over for France.
I'll never forget that in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders, the French marched in the streets, wearing "Ju suis Charlie!" t-shirts, but I never saw one single person after the Jewish murders that followed wearing a Ju suis Juif T-shirt.
France is also the country that gave sanctuary to Yassir Arafat's family. They made their alliance with Muslims decades ago, partly to ensure plenty of oil from opec countries.
Now, there are "no-go" zones is Paris, ruled by islamists, where the police will neither patrol nor intervene.
Hopefully they will stop coming to Canada, now the worst Jew hating country in the English speaking world, where the Liberal government is complicit in the incitement of Jew hatred, with a huge uptick since the Irish Catholic Carney, became PM, who himself incites hatred, and has absolutely ignores the violence including arson, shootings, physical assaults, Jew hunts with machetes, while the police all look on as they are designated the bodyguards and buddies of the jihadists, and not the victims, the Jews. Courts have thrown out all but a single digit of the ones indeed arrested which is probably less than 1% of those breaking the hate crime laws. He has attempted to use the Jew hatred to unify the 2 million Muslims, most who have poured in since the Liberal came to power, seemingly mostly unvetted, despite coming from the worst radical areas of the ME and Asia, despite warnings from Canadian intelligence services. His famous statemet that he announced to the nation, was that "Muslim values are Canadian values". Yes, indeed, including I assume Sharia law, multiple wives, and all the rest. Why? He desperately needs them to vote as a bloc for the Liberal Party, which used to be centre and now has become France, Ireland, Spain and Italy all wrapped in one.
My eyes almost popped out of my head when I read that as well. Talk about going from the fry pan into the fire! Canada had already turned into something I couldn't recognize before 10/7 but now it's beyond the pale.
Lately, it feels like the U.S. is fifteen-ish behind France in this regard
If you think it’s bad now, it will be far worse if Jean Luc Hitler Melanchon comes to power. He is genocidal and would nuke Israel
Before I read this essay, I had no idea of the historical dastardliness of the French. After all of the Jews are gone and the Islamists take over, the star and crescent will be flying from the Eiffel Tower and the pretty girls at the Moulin Rouge will be dancing in full length burkkahs. May they be happy with their choice.
Moving to Canada may not be the smartest move; however I don't know how Quebec is doing.
What a despicable
Scenario. I simply cannot understand it.
The world’s favorite scapegoats continue to be persecuted while adherents of the most evil religion ever devised by man (or Satan) are allowed to mass migrate into the West. It official - the world has gone insane.