Barricaded in Paris

[steevo]

The Jews have been paying a price the establishment media don't care to make known.

In France in particular (tho not exclusively) anti-semitism has been on the rise. In the past 4 years they have seen a 100% increase in immigration to Israel. In French speaking Canada, Quebec, tho still small in numbers, rise in immigration from France is 700%, increasing yearly. Many thousands are arriving from France to the US, in particular Florida.

Paris was burning for two weeks this month. But Jewish Paris has been burning for five years -- a steady, fiery precursor that went largely ignored by the French authorities. The rise of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 sparked a wave of mainly Muslim-led, anti-Jewish violence in France that has since brought forth thousands of hateful acts aimed at French Jews and their places of business, study, recreation, prayer and burial.

Jew-baiting is but one bit of the ethnic disaster occurring in France today, but it is a telling bit: chiefly a case of entrenched European anti-Semitism against Arabs -- who, let's not forget, are Semites, too -- helping kindle a violent anti-Semitism against Jews.
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In 2002, the same year Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme right Front National party came second in the general election, the same year hundreds of anti-Semitic crimes were recorded, the same year 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."

Author Salomon Malka, a Jewish community leader and director of one of the Jewish radio stations in Paris, says a president who says "no anti-Semitism" when synagogues are being bombed is a president saying "not France's problem" when it comes to its Jews.

"There is a tendency in thought here that much of what happens between a Jew and a Muslim is a Middle Eastern problem -- not a European one," he says.

"This is impossible for a French Jew.
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"Today is tolerable," he says, noting there has been an earnest, if rather ineffectual, clampdown on anti-Semitic violence on the part of French authorities this year.

"But our future here is hard to envision, even if [we are] just looking at demographics." There are 500,000 to 600,000 Jews living in France, and the population is dwindling. "There are six million Muslims," he says, "and their population is growing." Mr. Malka says even though most Muslims in France are moderate, "for Jews this is still not a comfortable situation, even from the standpoint of politics. For politicians, it's plain where the votes are."

"Sometimes it's best," says Mr. Barthel, "to just look clearly and say, 'OK, it's been nice in the past, but now it's time to move on.'

"In the span of history," he adds, "this is a not an altogether unfamiliar situation for us."

www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d81b7fd5-743a-4534-b5ec-eed3251d0b2e&page=1

[Teddy Bear]

Melanie Phillips has something to add on the subject.
The French insurrection

[steevo]

He is quite telling, a mass deception alright. Violence will increase as a consequence of uncompromising intellectual intolerance. You should read some of our Democrat/Leftist blogs... scary hatred, as if just around the corner we may be in for ideological killings. The wishing and voicing it is collective now, more blatant than ever.

Melanie Phillips is good Teddy.