Barricaded in Paris

Barricaded in Paris

By Mireille Silcoff (National Post):

French Jews are leaving the country in ever-growing numbers, fleeing a wave of anti-Semitism. They are moving to Israel, the United States, and increasingly, Montreal -- where the mostly English-speaking Jewish community is preparing for its greatest demographic change in decades. In the first of three stories, Mireille Silcoff examines the fear in France that is driving the emigration.

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Posted by Tim Dormain at January 1, 2006 03:23 PM

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1. george said:

In 2002, .. Le Monde published an article so searing in its anti-Jewish sentiment that a French court has since found its writers and editor guilty of "racial defamation," French President Jacques Chirac admonished a Jewish editor to "stop saying there is anti-Semitism in France. There is no anti-Semitism in France."
Even in the late fifties at school in fashionable 7th arrondissement, a stone throw from the eifel tower, i was regularly called "Sale Juif" by the other boys. In the playground kids would say " my dad told me not to play with Jews". Antisemetism starts at a young age in France. Now it has multiplied though uncontrolled islamic immigration.
The only respectable French jews are now those who constantly villify Israel, they are the only ones considered worthy of media interviews.
When we moved to London,england, all that vanished , i never heard the phrase "dirty jew" again.

Posted by: george on January 1, 2006 05:04 PM

2. george said:

Once , I was attacked by an egyptian boy and his cronies who kicked me and Jew baited me.
I fought back and a techer arrived on the scene , a frenchman.
He solved the problem by taking me away and locking me up in a classroom.
I still remember my indignation. The victim was being punished because it was easier to do that than punish the aggressors!
My Parents were summoned. THe frenchman told them that they could not guarantee my safety and they should move me to another school.
At that point, the Headmaster who was a retired American army soldier axploded and told the Frenchman to shut up. " We will make sure such bullying will never happen to your boy again" He said.
I kept that memory all these years as an example of the difference with which Americans and the french deal with problems of racism.

Posted by: george on January 1, 2006 05:17 PM

3. Tim said:

George: I (a gentile Christian) was brought up in Canada, Britain and the U.S. and I was never taught antisemitism. My children, now adults, are ardent pro-Israeli Christians - we homeschooled them :). When I read your comments I was angry at the way you were treated. I think things are geting bad in Britain, unfortunately. We will do our best as a family here i Canada to protect and defend the Jewish people.

Posted by: Tim on January 1, 2006 05:56 PM

4. Bill Levinson said:

"THe frenchman told them that they could not guarantee my safety and they should move me to another school. At that point, the Headmaster who was a retired American army soldier axploded and told the Frenchman to shut up. " We will make sure such bullying will never happen to your boy again" He said."


I'm sure the Frenchman cringed and melted into the ground at that point, which is what Frenchmen usually do when anyone stands up to them. In retrospect, they should have been allowed to get what was coming to them in 1914, with the Prussians holding their usual parade through the streets of Paris. England was on top of the world as long as it was fighting the French, by the way; it got an entire generation of its best men, including Rudyard Kipling's son, killed the instant it allied itself with them.


The French have ALWAYS collaborated with Islamofascists. It is well known that the Poles saved Vienna from a Turkish horde in 1683 but what is less known is that King Louis XIV put the Turks up to starting the war in the first place, and then tried to subvert the Sejm (Polish Parliament) to prevent a relief army from being sent. He obviously wanted to undermine his geopolitical rivals the Hapsburgs but he would have soon learned the meaning of "Allahu akbar" as soon as the horde reached his eastern borders.


We must remember, of course, that the Vichy French not only helped the Nazis deport and murder Jews and French Resistance fighters, they also turned their guns on English and American soldiers and sailors during the invasion of North Africa. Being French, of course, they didn't kill as many Allied soldiers as they might have had their gunnery been any good, and of course they threw down their weapons the instant things got a little warm. (They seem to take after Arabs in this manner, by the way.)


Now I have to go watch King Henry V (Sir Laurence Olivier AND Kenneth Branagh versions) again so I can see the French get what they have coming to them.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on January 1, 2006 06:46 PM

5. Big Joe said:

This sort of thing has been happening in Britain, too. In 2004 in fact, Britain had one of the highest number of
anti-Semitic incidents
in its history, and one
of the highest
in the world-- moreover, quite a few of these were very violent.

Italy has also been registering big increases in anti-Semitic incidents.

Unfortunately, lest we think that this resurgence of anti-Semitism is only a Western European thing, it's beginning to happen in the US too, and for many of the same reasons as it's hit France, where the idiotic authorities managed to introduce 6 million Muslims (and growing) in a population of maybe 55 million: High levels of Muslim immigration. The US Muslim population is now approx. 7-8 million, swollen both by immigrants as well as by high levels of conversion to Islam, especially by African-Americans. Though most don't take to the rhetoric of hate-spewers like Farrakhan, a fair number do, enough to make our situation ever more miserable. Even more white Americans are spouting the anti-Semitic nonsense-- I've been shocked at some of the things I've been overhearing in bars lately, and I'm not the only one. It's also happening in some unexpected places-- San Francisco of all cities has hosted some of the nastiest anti-Semitic graffiti in recent years. Turns out that the USA is not immune to the favorite pastime of gullible and easily stirred majorities everywhere-- bashing hard-working, well-off Jews as a convenient surrogate for other difficult problems. Now we're being blamed for the mess in Iraq (as though goyim like George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, and Dick Cheney had nothing to do with it). Hopefully Nefesh B' Nefesh will continue to have success bringing the Diaspora into Israel. It's the only place where we're truly secure in being Jews and maintaining our culture.

Posted by: Big Joe on January 1, 2006 07:37 PM

6. kuhnkat said:

Big Joe said:

"...(as though goyim like George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, and Dick Cheney had nothing to do with it)"

Don't you think it would be good to blame the freaking Arabs and Muslims for the problems THEY CAUSE????

Blaming our politicos, even MORONS like Clintoon, Kennedy, etc. is the same as blaming the Jews.

Big Joe also said:

"Hopefully Nefesh B' Nefesh will continue to have success bringing the Diaspora into Israel. It's the only place where we're truly secure in being Jews and maintaining our culture."

Ya better get a majority of people over there who are willing to FIGHT pretty quick. Lately it has been appeasement city, which will only get Israel wiped.

Posted by: kuhnkat on January 1, 2006 09:28 PM

7. Leonard said:

This resurgence of antisemitism in western europe was described by the UK Chief Rabbi as a Tsunami or tidal wave. It is no coincidence that the countries worst effected are those with rapidly expanding muslim populations such as France with 6-7 million arab migrants as was revealed in a recent EU survey which was subsequently covered up. The Jews in France are caught in the middle between the Far Right neo nazis of Le Pen and extremist arabs and their sympathisers in the Far Left Trotskist groups. These extremist left wing groups have managed to get their supporters into key positions in Western media where they can influence public opinion. In the UK you see examples of this left wing muslim extremist alliance in examples like London Mayor Ken Livingstone and his invitation & embrace of controversial cleric Quaradwi, and of the MP and former mouthpiece of Saddam Hussein - George Galloway. Ofcourse you have antisemitic scum and white supremascists in the USA like archers above & KKK Duke who are very much on the fringe in America with no real following, although Duke seems to be whipping it up in Ukraine through his antisemitic learning centre MAUP, and its also surprising that Canada allowed Zundel to get away with it for so long. I attended a Court hearing in Toronto 20 years ago when an attempt was made to deport him.

Posted by: Leonard on January 2, 2006 03:20 PM

8. kuhnkat said:

Here is a link that shows the percentage of Muslims to total population in most countries:

http://www.answers.com/topic/islam-by-country

Now France shows 7.5%. That isn't a lot of people unless they are ORGANISED. Finding out who is organising them should be the primary job of the French Intelligence. Also DOING something about it. As France seems to be in full APPEASEMENT mode I have to assume that the Politicos have been BOUGHT.

We know the media in all the western countries have been just by looking at what they do and don't report.

It isn't the numbers but the influence Petrodollars and the leverage being able to withold the oil gives them.

This pretty much explains the rest of the world also. When you economy depends on the availability of OIL and GAS you bend over fast.

If the Jews had that kind of leverage there wouldn't be a problem.

The solution?? Alternative energy, drilling all over the US, opening coal areas. Nuclear power wouldn't hurt either as it isn't dependent on the ME.
Anyone watching what Putin is trying to do to the Ukraine??

I think it is time to start exposing the money trails also. As shown by Fox News recently, if you own a chunk of a Media firm you CAN tell them how to spin. Just ask George Soros!!

Posted by: kuhnkat on January 3, 2006 12:28 AM

9. Leonard said:

Kuhnkat is absolutely right - what Putin is now trying to do in the Ukraine with gas the arabs have been doing for over 30 year with oil - blackmailing the West and gaining what leverage they can in their War against Israel. The West have been indirectly funding this War through their petro-dollars. The EU has pumped over 7 billion dollars to the Palestinians. Could you imagine them doing this to help the Kurds? Armenians? Rwandans?or Dharfur? I don't think so. Its all about economic leverage and the arab regimes know how to use it or abuse it to their advantage. Remember after the 1973 War when oil prices quadrupled - this triggered of a recession in the West that lasted over a decade.

Posted by: Leonard on January 3, 2006 06:44 AM

10. ackinghead said:

u guys full of sh!t

Posted by: ackinghead on January 3, 2006 05:15 PM

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