Opinion: Why the Jews are leaving France

Various pundits are trying to explain why the Jews are leaving France.  After all, the French government is doing all it can to protect them.


Here's a few reasons:

1. The mainstream popularity of Dieudonné, the antisemitic comedian, creator of the Quenelle. His performances are packed.  His audience voting for antisemitism.
   
   This year he called on non-Jews to revolt and mobilize against Jewish occupation and subjugation in France.
   
2. French politicians glorify Palestinian terrorists who murdered Jews - Bezons conferred honorary citizenship on  Ihrima Majdi Al Rimawi, who murdered Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi.  Aubervilliers named Marwan Barghouti an honorary citizen, despite that he fact that he's currently serving life-sentences for murdering Jews.  Valenton named a street after Barghouti.  And this is just a partial list.
   
   CRIF, the Jewish umbrella organization, warned the French parliament that voting for a Palestinian state will increase antisemitism in France.  They were roundly ignored.
   
3. The media and the police are quick to deny antisemitic motives for antisemitic crimes - they denied Ilan Halimi's murder was antisemitic, and they denied the recent robbery and rape of a Jewish couple was antisemitic.  
   
4. Even when the crime is deemed antisemitic, the judicial system doesn't deal harshly with the perpetrators.
   
5. Public apathy to this summer's antisemitic "pro-Palestinian" demonstrations, with calls to "slaughter the Jews" and "death to the Jews".  When synagogues were attacked, one politician even justified it.
   
6. When pro-Israel activists are attacked in a university, the university decides to eject the victims, not deal with the violent attackers.  French universities support the Palestinian cause.  The Sorbonne, for example, runs a student exchange programme with Bir Zeit university (breeding ground of terrorism) but not with Israel universities.
   
7. French Muslims are responsible for the murders of Jews in Toulouse (2012), Brussels (2014) and Paris (2015).  France is exporting its antisemitic violence abroad.  

Here's what I wrote earlier this year:

The European Left and Right talk about their love for the Jews, and how they want to prevent another Holocaust.  But then they turn around and pass laws denying Jews the right to live a Jewish life in  Europe.  Top people in government tell the Jews that if you want to live in Europe you've got to drop all those barbaric rituals such as circumcision and kosher slaughter.  You don't really need to wear a kippah or cover your hair.  That's passe.

It's not antisemitism, it's concern for human rights and animal rights.

A journalist can write an article denying Jews the right to their own homeland, accusing them of ethnically cleaning Palestinians, and it will be published in top newspapers around the Western world.

An academic can boycott his Israeli colleagues, just because they're Israeli.

It's not antisemitism, it's anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel.

Anti-racism activists take over Holocaust memorials to accuse Israel of committing a new Holocaust, this time time against the Palestinians.

It's not antisemitism, it's human rights.

A man like Dieudonné can become a top comedian in France with a show which accuses the Jews of committing genocide and of crying 'Holocaust' whenever somebody criticizes them for it.

It's not antisemitism, it's comedy and it's anti-system. 

But the problem is that all those "it's not antisemitisms" are exactly what leads Jews today to fear for their future in  Europe.  It's not a Muslim who gets hold of a gun, it's the Europeans who then pretend it's not a real problem, but an 'incident'.