France Descending Into Muslim State Where Jews Are Not Welcome. Can Expulsion Of Jews And Christians Be Far Behind?

Special Report: France a Powderkeg of Anti-Semitic Incitement and Violence

By Ahuva Balofsky July 24, 2014 , 10:37 am

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“He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him. When he speaketh fair, believe him not; for there are seven abominations in his heart. Though his hatred be concealed with deceit, his wickedness shall be revealed before the congregation. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.” (Proverbs 26:24-27)

Pro-Palestinian protests in Paris turn violent. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

Antisemitism in France has reach an all time high, with several frightening incidents taking place over the past few weeks.  Home to both the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in Europe, the country has become a powderkeg of incitement and violence.

Pictured is David, a 59-year-old Jewish teacher, who was severely beaten in Paris. The attackers drew a swastika on David’s chest. (Photo: David via The Algemeiner)

Since the start of Operation Protective Edge just over two weeks ago, France has seen several pro-Palestinian rallies turn violently ugly.  Just over a week ago, Jewish worshippers were trapped inside a Paris synagogue as demonstrators hurled projectiles and invectives at them.  In all, nine synagogues have been targeted in France over the course of the conflict.

The most recent attack took place in Sarcelles, a Paris neighborhood with significant Jewish and Muslim populations, also known as “little Jerusalem”.  When the rioters were unable to reach the Grand Synagogue in the neighborhood, they turned their rage on local shops and establishments known to be owned by Jews, including a kosher grocery and a pharmacy. Groups of youth lit smoke bombs and firecrackers. They also burned two cars and threw a firebomb at a smaller synagogue nearby.

Note that this violence was planned; Britain’s Daily Mail reported that organizers called on supporters to join “a raid on the Jewish district”, saying: “Come equipped  with hammers, fire extinguishers and batons.” The events unfolding and methods used by the anti-Semitic protesters are horrifyingly reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

Anti-Semitic violence has reached a point where French officials have banned protests in certain neighborhoods, citing security concerns.  The ban did not stop protesters from gathering in Barbes, in northern Paris, where they threw stones at police who tried to contain them.  17 officers were injured in the melee.  Israeli flags were burned by the demonstrators, who also carried a banner which read “Isra-hell”.

French leaders have roundly condemned the violence and hatred spreading through the streets.  French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called antisemitism “our common enemy” in a recent op-ed for The New York Times.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls spoke of a “new form of antisemitism spreading on the Internet, on social media, in our working-class areas, among young people who are often directionless, who have no awareness of history, who hide their hatred of the Jews behind a mask of anti-Zionism and behind the hatred of the Israeli state.”

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver pose with a family of immigrants from France that arrived in Israel this evening. (Photo: David Salem)

He was speaking at an event commemorating the 1942 round-up of Jews in Paris by the Nazis.  On Sunday, Valls defended the ban on anti-Israel demonstrations, saying, “What happened again yesterday in Paris — unacceptable unrest — justifies all the more the brave choice by the Interior Ministry to ban a demonstration.”

More and more, local Jews are relying on France’s Jewish Defense League (LDJ).  As one Jewish barber told JTA, “The Arabs own the streets now. We need make them lose the appetite for messing with us if we’re to survive here. LDJ is our Iron Dome.”  Serge Najar, a local Jewish community leader, concurred.  “The cops are here now, but it’ll be just us and the Arabs tomorrow.”

Roger Cukierman, of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, pointed out that we are dealing with classic anti-Semitism, not the more politically correct anti-Zionism, as is often claimed.  “They are not shouting ‘Death to the Israelis’ on the streets of Paris. They are screaming ‘Death to the Jews’.”

In the face of such animosity, many French Jews are choosing to leave.  Aliyah rates from France in 2014 are higher than they have been since 1948, according to the Jewish Agency.  In fact, ‘’If aliyah predictions for 2014 are met,1 percent of French Jews will have moved to Israel this year,’’ said Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Executive for the organization. “Within a single year, and for the first time in history, a Jewish community in the West is sending a full percent of its Jews to build their lives in the State of Israel. We await you in Israel with open arms.”

Anti-Israel The 21st Century Anti-Semitism. It Is The Sign Of The Future Where The World HATES Israel!

Misplaced Outrage

Posted by: Sarah N. Stern May 28, 2014 , 12:38 pm

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This month the entire world was transfixed by the heinous kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian, Christian school girls by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram, who were then forced to convert to Islam; And then this week we watched as a Sudanese Court handed out the death sentence to 27 year old Meriam YehyaI Ibrahim, for the crime of apostasy. Meriam, who is pregnant and has a 20 month old baby whom she shares her prison cell with, had a Muslim father who had left her when she was 6 years old to be raised by her Christian mother. However, since Islam has patrilineal descent, the court in Khartoum felt the sentence was totally legitimate. She is also being sentenced to 100 lashes before her execution for the “crime” of marrying a Christian man.

Where is the outrage?

If you look at college campuses throughout the United States this spring, you see plenty of outrage.  A familiar meme is being replicated from Harvard to University of California at Los Angeles. The outrage is being directed against the one state in the Middle East, where the prayer of the muezzin is heard several times a day throughout the streets of Jerusalem calling Muslims to worship in their mosques, where Muslims have unhampered access to their holy sites, where Christians freely go about worshiping in their churches and Jews in their synagogues: the tiny democratic state of Israel.

This outrage takes on many forms.  This semester, students who were contemplating serving on the student government of UCLA are being asked to sign a pledge drafted by the Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Armenian Students Association that they will not participate in certain sponsored or free trips to Israel. The statement is ironically titled “The Statement on Undergraduate Students Association Council Ethics.” The administration of UCLA has decided not to take a stand, but “to leave the matter to the students”.

Also this spring, Jewish students from New York University received mock “eviction” notices, slid under the doors by Students for Justice in Palestine, with the threat that “If you do not vacate the premise by midnight on 25 April, 2014, we reserve the right to destroy all remaining belongings. We cannot be held responsible for property or persons remaining inside the premises.”

This past March and April American campuses were ignited by the hate infested activities of the annual “Israel Apartheid Week.”  This is when student radicals on campuses from Berkeley to Brandeis and scores of points in between single out Israel for “boycott, divestment and sanctions” in an effort to isolate and destroy the Jewish state. This yearly “hate fest” was the brain child of Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti who admits that he wants to replace Israel with “Palestine, from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) Sea.”

The famous Soviet dissident and now Chair of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, called the American college campus “islands of anti-Semitism within the United States, and expressed the fear that the next generation of American Jews are becoming “the new Jews of silence.”

Life on college campuses or Jewish students across the United States can be extremely difficult. Many have expressed the feelings that they have been intimidated and made to feel fearful, both inside the classroom and on the college campus.

Some of this could have been avoided had university presidents, faculty members, directors of Hillel houses and students been made aware of the fact that under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Jewish students are a “protected minority” and universities have the obligation to protect them from anti-Semitic harassment and discrimination.

This ruling came about by the United States Department of Civil Rights Office of Education in October of 2010. It was based on a briefing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights on November 18, 2005, which I had been privileged to have participated in, along with the late Gary Tobin of the Institute for Jewish Community Research and Susan Tuchman from the ZOA.

It means that federal funding can be revoked if the rights and protections of Jewish students are violated.

Meanwhile, the irony is that while Israel is the sole nation in the Middle East where religious minorities are given total freedom; where during the war in Croatia-Bosnian conflict in the 1990’s, hundreds of Muslims were given political asylum; where right now there are IDF (Israeli Defense Force) units in the Golan Heights giving sorely needed medical assistance to Syrian Muslims who are fighting both against  the regime of  Bashir Assad and in favor of it; where there are Muslim students who are volunteering to serve in the IDF; where Arabs and Muslims openly serve in the Israeli Knesset, where recently “Miss Israel” has been an Israeli Arab; where in every hospital Muslims, Christians and Jews receive the same sophisticated level of medical care; only Israel is considered the anathema of nations.

Only this little island of freedom in the atavistic, primitive and tribal region of the world that is the  Middle East is held up to unparalleled scrutiny and criticism.

Going back to Natan Sharansky: He defines two forms of anti-Semitism: The old 20^th century anti-Semitism is against individual Jews and the Jewish people: the new 21^st century anti-Semitism is against the collective state of the Jews: Israel.