My shocking - well, I was totally 'gob-smacked'! - title is copied from the heading to an article at The Coffee House by Gavin Mortimer.
Anti-Semitic attacks in 2018 soared by 74 per cent on the previous year and the figures for the beginning of 2019 have revealed a 78 per cent increase on the same period in 2018.
In 2017 an elderly Jewish lady who had undergone constant verbal assaults from her Muslim neighbours was battered to death by a Muslim man, Kobili Traoré. The French, er, judicial system, er, sprang into action by showing the killer mercy and NOT charging him for murder:
Last month a court showed compassion to Traoré, declaring that he was ‘criminally irresponsible’ for his actions because he ‘was not aware’ of the adverse effects of regular cannabis smoking.
Yeeeeeeeeeees, quite, si tu le dis, if you say so! Alfred Dreyfus, you are not forgotten!
According to Mr. Mortimer:
There are 460,000 Jews left in France, and they desperately need more than just the occasional facile tweet from their president about how ‘Jews are and make France’. It happens after every new anti-Semitic outrage but virtue signalling is of no value.
The truth is that the French establishment is in denial, and has adopted the ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ approach. Yet evil there is. As one of the Halimi’s family’s lawyers put it this week, the leniency shown to Sarah’s killer ‘is a warning that society is becoming sick’. If this sickness isn’t treated then there will come a day in the not-too-distant future when there won’t be a Jew left in France.
There is something rotten in the State of France!
The health of a nation can be measured in the well being of its Jewish population. Their exodus-pun intended-should be a "canary in the coal mine" for any government.
Posted by: Whitewall | Saturday, 18 January 2020 at 18:46
Spot on, Whiters!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 18 January 2020 at 21:38
The French have a history of religious fanaticism. They slaughtered the Hugeanots and expelled tens of thousands. We can thank the Frogs for Nigel Farage. However the present day French elite and EU are more comfortable with Islamists who have been killing the French, Belgiums and Germans on a regular basis. Strange lot the French. Leaving the EU is timely for the British as we can control our borders.
Posted by: Glesga | Saturday, 18 January 2020 at 23:51
Europe and America were sane and enlightened places to the extent that their populations cared about the well-being of Jews. Mass immigration of Muslims who are hostile to Jews is a sign that people have ceased to care. Thank goodness Corbyn was given a good kicking in the election. It shows that decency still prevails.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Saturday, 18 January 2020 at 23:58
Probably not all that long if the "hairies" keep flooding the place. A central tenet of their belief system is the elimination of my co-religionists.
Where to go? The UK if you don't want to go far. Israel if you are happy to contribute to its survival. Oz has a thriving and well integrated Jewish community. Arguably our greatest General, John Monash, was Jewish, one Governor General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, and our current Federal Treasurer.
Not sure about Canada and the US especially Canada with its boy PM and recent court results involving extreme actions by "hairies".
Posted by: AussieD | Sunday, 19 January 2020 at 09:58