The French Jewish community has survived in that nation, often during difficult or indeed murderous times, for centuries. The Jewish community there has survived expulsions, legal handicaps, mass murder, the Revolution, Napoleon, the Dreyfus affair and the Nazi invasion of France. However, from where I’m sitting, it looks like it may not survive the problems that Islam has brought to France. French Jews and especially the French Jewish community may also not survive the civil disturbances that France may find itself dealing with should an open conflict break out between the Muslims and the rest of the French population. France’s Jews have often been the target of Islamic Jew haters especially during this early part of the 21st century and this increase in Islamic Jew hatred has been a horrendous pressure on France’s Jews.
The current Jewish population of France is approximately 480,000 and that figure doesn’t count non-Jewish relatives of French Jews. This looks like a relatively healthy figure for a minority population, it’s enough for a community to be relatively self sustaining, but it is a figure that is falling. At the moment It’s not a case of French Jews having to rush to get out, but there is a steady trickle of people who’ve had enough and want better for themselves and their families. A large number of French Jews are seeing the writing on the wall in France and are wondering whether or not it would be safer to be a Jew in Israel than in France? Some French Jews have already made that decision and have moved to Israel. When I was last in Tel Aviv a few years back, I was struck by just how ‘French’ parts of Tel Aviv had become and this is the result of previous waves of Jewish emigration to Israel.
Although there are French Jews who have moved to Israel for economic reasons, it should not be denied that the growth in Islam in France along with a rise in Islamic anti-Semitism is also a factor in emigration to Israel, or aliyah as it is termed in Hebrew. After all, who really wants to live in country that is deliberately importing, in ever greater numbers, those who want you dead?
A total of 13,313 French Jews moved to Israel between the years 2000 and 2009. The figure has been running about a 1,000 and 1,200 per year since then. However, should the security and Islam situation in France get any worse than it already is, it might mean an even greater number taking flight. Some years, namely 2014 have more emigrants to Israel than others, in that year for example 7,000 French Jews moved to Israel. According to figures published by The Jewish Press website, 200 French Jews came in one tranche this summer alone. These figures only relate to those French Jews making Aliyah to Israel it doesn’t cover French Jews who may move to other countries. There are also many French Jews coming to London as it is seen as being safer than France. Some Jewish movements are hiring extra Rabboinim and putting on services in French to cater for the influx of French Jews to the United Kingdom. It’s likely that the exodus of French Jews may be higher than the figures relating to Israel alone would suggest.
Despite being an avowed supporter of the State of Israel and a person who feels that it’s good that people move there to help build the nation, I have to admit that there is something both sad and sick-making about the number of French Jews leaving. It’s sad that they are leaving hundreds of years of history behind. It’s sick-making to think of why they are leaving. They are leaving because things are getting bad and are likely to get worse. They are leaving because foolish politicians invited into France the followers of Islam, one of the most anti-Semitic ideologies on the planet today. France seems to be unwittingly exchanging hundreds of thousands of hard working educated and socially useful Jews for an even greater number of criminally minded, unproductive, jihad obsessed, welfare claiming Muslims. It is an action that makes no sense.
It’s heartbreaking to think that the French Jewish community which managed to survive so much oppression and horror over the years and has been such a large part of France’s growth and success, could be wiped out or dispersed by a bunch of savages. France needs to do something about its Islamic savagery problem before such savagery destroys not only France’s Jewish citizens, but the entire nation.
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Large number of French Jews move to Israel
