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Do Jews have a future in France? This is what the Jews of France are discussing, with ever greater anxiety after the wave of antisemitic incidents that have surged since the war in Gaza began. A majority of them — 52% — say they are contemplating leaving France, and making aliyah to Israel. More on the latest antisemitic attack, this one on a kosher restaurant, can be found here: “‘They Are Death Threats’: Kosher Restaurant in France Vandalized With Anti-Israel Graffiti,” Algemeiner, September 5, 2024:
A kosher restaurant in France was defaced early Tuesday morning with red paint and tagged with the message “Free Gaza,” continuing the historic surge in antisemitism that has devastated the French Jewish community since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war last fall.
The O’Laffa restaurant, which opened a little over a year ago, was targeted in Villeurbanne, near Lyon in eastern France. According to French media, the manager of the kosher establishment was preparing to file a complaint with authorities over the incident.
“These are not just tags but significant damage that reflects a very deep hatred,” Cindy Fevre, 34, told Le Figaro. “When you discover this, you ask yourself a million questions. Should you stay or leave? These red marks represent blood stains. It’s very serious; they are death threats.”
The restaurant’s windows and sign were also damaged in the vandalism.
Seeing the damage was both shocking and angering for Fevre, who noted to Le Figaro that she employs a Muslim employee and added, “In my restaurant, the door is open to everyone.”
The defacing of O’Laffa came as France has experienced a record surge of antisemitism in the wake of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, amid the ensuing war in Gaza….
“It seems France has no future for Jews,” Rabbi Moshe Sebbag of Paris’ Grand Synagogue told the Times of Israel following the ascension of the New Popular Front (NFP), a coalition of far-left parties. “We fear for the future of our children.”
The largest member of the NFP is the far-left La France Insoumise (“France Unbowed”) party, whose leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon, has been lambasted by French Jews as a threat to their community as well as those who support Israel.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is an out-and-out antisemite. He has accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing,” of committing a “genocide” and a “massacre” in Gaza,” has accused Jewish ministers of pushing a Jewish agenda, and has refused to condemn Hamas as a “terrorist” organization.
Each antisemitic attack, like that which just took place against a tiny kosher restaurant in a suburb outside Lyon, increases the anxiety of French Jews. And more of them now ask themselves, as the Muslim population inexorably rises, what will the country be like for them in five years? In ten? Do the Jews of France have a future in France?
Before Jews depart the Ranine Entity, they should turn up the heat to the max…..so that the frogs boil to death. ~
When will they learn to close their Boarders and return these maniacs to where they came from?
Jews do not have a future in France, if they don’t fight back. The French eagerly participated in deporting Jews to Germany in WWII.
There was a period several years ago when Muslim attacks increased and an emigration movement to Israel ramped up, sort of. The attacks are only getting worse.
Fight back or emigrate to Israel.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/if_you_want_to_see_where_america_is_heading_look_to_1453.html
I think that French shopkeepers and businesses need to band together to deal with this menace, so that, if one person’s business is harmed or threatened, the others rally round to help, and to demonstrate that their friends can’t be picked off as easily as that. Predators always look for people who appear vulnerable – the answer is to do what one Canadian Jewish community did when one of their children was bullied at school by Muslim children, and have a 150 strong escort turn out to walk the young man to school.