Payback time in France?
You will recall that I reported on some discomfort among French Jews over the election of Francois Hollande as President on Sunday. Here's the flip side: 93% of French Muslims voted for Hollande. According to a poll by OpinionWay and Fiducial for Le Figaro, 93% of Muslims voted for Hollande. 7% voted for Sarkozy. The poll was conducted May 6th among 1000 voters.A lot of French Jews are very nervous about Hollande.
According to the polling agency, there are about 2 million Muslim voters. 59% of Muslims voted for Hollande in the first round. 23% voted for Jean-Luc Melenchon (Left Front) and 7% voted for François Bayrou (Democratic Movement). Sarkozy got 4% of the Muslim vote in the first round.
In Israel, the city of Netanya has the largest community of French nationals. Many expressed concern that Hollande will "Care for the Muslims, because they supported him."What could go wrong?
"Hollande is not good for the Jews or for Israel," said Lorence Partush, adding that many Jews in France will now have an excuse to make aliyah, because "he loves Muslims."
"We are worried about the Jews who live in France. The world should be worried about them too," said Collette, another Netanya resident who moved to Israel from France.
"Hollande is a danger to the Jewish community in France. We lived there for over 40 years, but those were different times. Now its difficult for us," she added.
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The Jewish community in France expressed mixed emotions about Hollande as well.
The European Jewish Congress congratulated him: "Our recent meeting with Mr. Hollande was very constructive and touched on many areas of concern to the Jewish community," EJC President Moshe Kantor said in a statement.
"I believe we have a sympathetic ear in the new French leadership and we look forward to continuing this relationship with the new president."
But Richard Prasquier, who heads the umbrella group of French Jewry, said he was concerned that Hollande's election would lead to "a rise in the anti-Israel left."
"Some of the parties Hollande is likely to partner with for his coalition are not friends of Israel," he told the Jewish Press in New York.
Labels: France, Francois Hollande
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:57 PM
7 Comments:
So the new president of a sh*tty little country like Fwance is not good for Israel?
C'est la vie!
Go stew, France. Long overdue.
I can't find the URL now, but I recently read that the number of French Jews making aliya to Israel is growing greatly these last couple of years. French Jews are finding that Muslim immigrants are making about all major cities a hostile environment and potentially very dangerous. The recent murders in Toulouse were not an isolated event but the worst of a trend.
Government response is generally more denial and appeasement of Muslims, as in most of the EUSSR. That European societies and European governments are allowing this to happen, and grow, is a disgraceful rejection of lessons from the Holocaust. Speaking of which, the British Govt has taken previously mandatory education about the Holocaust out of the school curricula, due to the strong objections of Muslim denialist immigrants.
You are a liar CaptH, I can easily debunk your garbage, creep
If you really are that stupid, it explains why your country is now 3rd world.
What they say about American ignorance (barring the small left wing elite) is true. You're a stunning example of village bumpkin
"Chayma said...
You are a liar CaptH, I can easily debunk your garbage, creep"
He is not a liar and you would better recite the "Shema" for your own atonement .... :lol:
Trumpledor, you mean 'the Shahda', but fear not, I'm not lying..CaptH is, he lied about the anti semitism in Europe being Muslim led, and he lied about the British curriculum capping Holocaust studies, that was a lie spread by liars like him which all the MSM in Britian responded to with the truth.
This is not the first time this liar has published utter garbage here, i've rebutted his nonsense belfore, and he skulks away, never responds, never retracts like a gentleman, but like a lowlife, keeps quite and disappears, which proves he is a liar.
The Toulouse killings and the false specter of European anti-Semitism
by Alex Kane on March 26, 2012
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/the-toulouse-killings-and-the-false-specter-of-european-anti-semitism.html
Danon and Katz may very well know that there is no danger of anti-Jewish pogroms erupting in Europe. But they won’t admit it, because that would undermine a different struggle, what they see as the demographic struggle in Israel/Palestine.
An ulterior motive for the calls for Jews to move to Israel exists. The motive is the fear of Israeli Jews losing their edge in numbers over Palestinians in the territory between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea. This is the “demographic threat” one hears so much talk about. Both Katz and Danon talk of it.
In a New York Times Op-Ed, Danon advocated for the annexing of the West Bank by Israel, but emphasized that in his plan, “Palestinians would not have the option to become Israeli citizens, therefore averting the threat to the Jewish and democratic status of Israel by a growing Palestinian population.” Likewise, Katz has warned that African refugees coming to Israel pose a “demographic threat.”
So Africans and Palestinians need not apply. But French Jews? Come along.
It's important to realize that Danon and Katz are not primarily concerned with the safety of Europe’s Jews. Their knee jerk reactions to the killings in France were not concerned with the facts. So it's not a leap to suggest that the specter of European anti-Semitism is raised in the service of consolidating a Jewish majority so that Israel will always be a “Jewish” state.
Here's an update:
May 7, 2012
"(JTA) -- Some 5,000 French Jews participated in an aliyah fair in Paris.
The fair, organized and run by the Jewish Agency, took place Sunday as French voters went to the polls and elected Francois Hollande as their new president, beating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, considered the favored choice in the Jewish community.
“I cannot recall having seen such a massive number of people interested in aliyah since the days when lines of people stretched out of the Israeli embassy in Moscow,” said Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, who attended the fair. The annual fair usually attracts about 2,000 visitors, according to the Jewish Agency.
The French Jewish community is the largest in Europe, with some 500,000 members, according to the Jewish Agency."
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