The Jews of France have no future in their country because of Arab
immigration and deep-seated anti-Semitism, said Natan Sharansky, the
head of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Sharansky made the declaration on Monday in Paris, where he was
attending a Jewish Agency board of governors meeting held in the French
capital for the first time as a sign of solidarity with its Jews.
“We came here because there are historical processes here,” Sharansky
said of France, which for the past two years has been Israel’s largest
source of immigrants, with a record-setting 15,000 Jews settling there
during that period.
“There is no future for the Jews in France because of the Arabs, and
because of a very anti-Israel position in society, where new
anti-Semitism and ancient anti-Semitism converge,” he told JTA.
Since 2012, Islamists have killed eight Jews in two shooting attacks
that came amid hundreds of non-lethal violent assaults. A French citizen
with alleged ties to Islamist groups is standing trial in France for a
third shooting in 2014 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in which four
people died.
The violence is one of several factors behind the increase in Jewish
immigration to Israel, or aliyah, from France, Sharansky said, along
with French Jewry’s strong emotional attachment to Israel and France’s
stagnant economy.
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