January 23, 2003

French Jews leave with no regrets

[...]But nothing, it seems, can persuade Jonathan to stay in the country where he was born and grew up.

He is part of the growing exodus of French Jews leaving for Israel.

"As a Jew I don't see any future for me in France," he said. "Just put on a skull cap in the street and see the reaction you get. While Muslim girls can wear veils and no-one says a word."
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Indeed the violence in the Middle East was seen as one of the reasons for a series of attacks on French synagogues last year. With Europe's largest Arab and Jewish communities, France is ever sensitive to the possibility of violence far away being reflected close to home.

And now after a relatively calm few months the malaise is creeping back.

At the weekend's anti-war demonstrations it was noticeable how many protesters sang anti-Israeli songs, while just a few weeks ago a liberal Rabbi in Paris was stabbed and had his car set on fire for reasons which remain obscure.["Obscure" only to the BBC. The stabber was an Islamist who cried "Allah Akhubar! before he attacked the rabbi.--J.T.]
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I'm sad to say goodbye to my family and friends, but France, no. How can I be sad to leave a country which is without exaggeration, anti-Semitic?"[Jonathan Taieb said.]

France also demonstrated its great tolerance and inclusiveness for the world's murdering leaders by inviting Robert Mugabe, current leader of the reverse-KKK in Zimbabwe, over to play:
France defies UK over Mugabe

What I'd like to know is do the Froggies really think Mugabe's a super guy or did Jacques Chirac do it just to p*ss off Tony Blair again?
France is so deep in la merde that it doesn't matter anymore.
Vichy France had nothing on these mecs!