Saturday, July 01, 2006

News From France

My friend Sahbra forwarded this email to me with information about anti-Semitism in France from this site. I cannot verify it, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s true and thought you would all find it frightening. I know I do. Not surprised mind you, but scary nonetheless.

Once again, the real news is conveniently not being reported as it should. At present, in my Hebrew class, there is a woman who recently made aliya from Paris with her family. I have spoken with her about anti-Semitism in France and she confirmed that it is very, very serious and getting worse every week. She and her family fled Paris and came to Israel, fearing for their lives - literally. This is first hand, my friends.

To give you an idea of what's going on in France where there are now between 5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000 Jews, here is an email that came from another Jew still in France. Please read! Will the world say nothing - again - as it did in Hitler's time?

He writes, "I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on all my e-mail lists. I will not sit back and do nothing." Nowhere have the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France:

In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in Creteil - all recently.

A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew" was painted. In Bundy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months.

According to the Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days. Wake up, world! Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews."

A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20s were beaten up by five men in Villeurbanne, France. The woman was pregnant; a Jewish school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France. This was in the past week.

So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity, to do, at least, these three simple things:

First, care enough to stay informed. Don't ever let yourself become deluded into thinking that this is not your fight. I remind you of what Pastor Neimoller said in World War II: First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

Second, boycott France and French products. Only the Arab countries are more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than just oil and hatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes. Boycott their clothes and their foodstuffs. Boycott their movies. Definitely boycott their shores. If we are resolved we can exert amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know about the French, we most certainly know that they are like a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of well-directed pressure.

Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your co-workers. Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let them know that you and the people that you care about need their help. The number one best selling book in France is "September 11: The Frightening Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.

Is it any wonder that Aliya from France to Israel has increased dramatically?

7 Comments:

At 3:21 AM, Blogger Dan Zaremba said...

Yep Esther.
Here is some more:

http://www.israelrestored.com/docs/canary_in_europe.htm

 
At 4:41 AM, Blogger Always On Watch said...

Time warp? As in the 1930s?

 
At 1:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's also been an increase of those in England making aliyah.

I posted a couple of months ago for others to sign a petition to lift the quotas and let more French Jews come into the US. I see if I can find it and post the link here.

 
At 1:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here's the link for the petition

 
At 2:37 PM, Blogger Sergeant America said...

As a non-Jew ... (I almost typed Goy), I believe that there is anti-Semitism in every nation.

I am suspicious of any email that includes the phrase "... send this along to your family, your friends, and your co-workers." (But that's just me.)

The TRUTH sans opinion, speculation and outright lies will always be the best way to inform those who are in need.

Each has to determine how to react in response to the facts, TRUTH and results as they apply to this "sickness" occuring within the World in which we live?

 
At 9:32 AM, Blogger birdwoman said...

Is it the Fwench who are anti-semitic, or the immigrants from Arab and African countries?

I realize the frogs are doing nothing to protect their native Jews, but boycotting french products would make it worse, not better, if it is the immigrants. It will put more stress on the economy which is already strained.

If it is indeed native french, then boycotts will do no good. It's too ingrained. If the news doesn't cover it, then the only hope is for the Jews to leave.

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At 9:08 PM, Blogger Esther said...

Thanks Felis. I'll definitely check that out.

AOW, sadly yes.

Thanks for the link, Seawitch!

Sarge, that's why I put the disclaimer.....I'm wary of those phrases too.

BW, great questions posed. And yes, I'm usually wary of boycotts on the French for the reason that it's usually the Jewish businesses we end up hurting.

 

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