French Israelis are calling on French Jews to emigrate to Israel. A chaotic election This weekend’s elections have given a coalition of far-left anti-Semitic parties and Islamists control of France.
French Israelis openly argue that Jews would be safer in Israel during the war than if they remained in France for any length of time.
National on sunday talked Jews returned to France to vote in elections called by President Emmanuel Macron that some saw as a last resort to stave off the anti-Semitic open-border left, but which ultimately proved a long shot, while others said it was time for Jews to leave France.
Dan said he plans to vote for a far-right party, founded by openly anti-Semitic politicians, something that would have been unthinkable not so long ago.
Despite his history with the far-right, Dann was confident in his choice: “We need to urgently stop the far-left in alliance with radical Islamists, otherwise France will become an even more dangerous country for Jews,” he said.
Even though Israel is in the midst of a war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and faces the possibility of an even more devastating war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, some Israelis have given up on France altogether and are calling on all French Jews to emigrate to Israel.
Sharen Haskel, an Israeli politician who grew up in France, has become a leading voice urging her fellow French Jews to seek safety in Israel. Said He argued last week that the October 7 massacre should have served as “a wake-up call for all French people”, unleashing a mix of left-wing anti-Semitism and radical Islamism that had long been simmering across the Western world.
“Anti-Semitism has been growing in France for a long time. Since October 7 it has become intolerable and the French government has ignored and tolerated the growth of the blood libel against Israel. As a result, the Jewish community is suffering violence, rape and murder,” Haskell said after her grandmother, who lives in France, was assaulted by two Arab men.
“As she was on her way to a blood test, two Muslim men attacked her from behind, pulled her to the ground, kicked her, and broke her teeth. They then spat on her, called her a dirty Jew, and ran away,” Haskell said. National on sunday.
“This is an international issue. Jews have to hide their identities so they won’t be attacked,” she said.
“I call on all Western Jews, from France to the United States, to come to Israel. They should come to their cultural, ancestral and historical homeland. We will not be at the mercy of any hostile people or governments. The world has become a dangerous place for Jewish people. They can no longer worship or walk freely and their businesses are under attack all over the world,” she warned.
The same phone issued Avigdor Lieberman, a former deputy prime minister of Israel and leader of the conservative Yisrael Beitenu party.
“I call on French Jews to leave France and emigrate to the State of Israel. There is no time left,” Lieberman said Sunday.
‘No future’: French Jews express fear after far-left election victoryhttps://t.co/sudcFEkD1F
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Other French Jews National They believe that anti-Semitism in France flared up after the October 7 attacks due to biased reporting by the French media about Israel’s military operation against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. They feel that the current crisis is different from past outbreaks of violent anti-Semitism and are not convinced that the situation will improve significantly even after the end of the Gaza war.
“It seems there is no future for Jews in France,” said Rabbi Moshe Sebag of the Victoires Synagogue. Said of The Israel Times (TOI) As the election results were announced on Sunday, Sebag was among the French Jewish leaders who suggested that it was time to consider emigrate to Israel.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left Indomitable France party, Kingmaker The French politician has called Jews an “arrogant minority” and praised anti-Israel protesters.
Looming over the horrors facing French Jews is the horrific gang rape of a 12-year-old girl in June. Assaulted The attack was carried out by anti-Semitic gangs, who appear to have deliberately imitated the Hamas atrocity of October 7. The gang reportedly decided to attack her after learning that she was hiding her Jewish identity to avoid being accused of being “anti-Palestinian” at school.
“There are parallels between the acts committed by Hamas terrorists on the kibbutz and the suffering our daughter endured below us in Courbevoie,” the girl’s parents said in their first statement since the attack.
The victim’s parents also criticised Mr Mélenchon for downplaying the rise in anti-Semitism in France, saying their daughter “could feel it firsthand at school” before the attack.
Haskell said Sunday that parents worried about their children’s future in the new France should plan to emigrate to Israel.
“Many French Jews will wait until the end of the war to emigrate to Israel, but they understand that emigrate is necessary to raise their children safely, to not fear for their identity and to live as the person they were born to be,” she said, promising that Israel was ready to deal with waves of Jews fleeing Europe.
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French Jews were conflicted during the election because many Jews disliked Marine Le Pen and her right-wing party. Said It would be foolish for Jews to succumb to the deception that Le Pen would make them believe they are his friends. Some Jews who are returning home for the election National They felt uneasy about voting for the right, no matter how hellish their future looked under an alliance of leftists and Islamists.
“All the Jews I know agree that, of course, they will never vote for an Unbowed France, and they will never vote for Marine Le Pen,” the well-known author Bernard-Henri Lévy said before the election.
French Jewish voters, and their professed friends, might have been more serious about realizing that a narrow victory for Le Pen would have produced a government at odds with the French media and political establishment, one that would face fierce opposition and constant reminders that its narrow victory did not confer any great “mandate.”Such a government might have tried to keep Jewish voters on its side.
Meanwhile, the far-left and Islamist alliance threatened to burn down the city if they lost, and if they won, Burned down the city In any case, this is a display of their power, and a clear terrorist warning to all who might oppose them. Mélenchon and his cohorts have no sense of obligation to those who did not support them, or that they have limited powers that they must exercise with due respect for their opponents, or that they owe any gratitude to Jewish voters who chose “none of the above” instead of voting for the right.
