{"id":23908,"date":"2015-07-29T18:05:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=23908"},"modified":"2015-07-23T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T14:54:19","slug":"23908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=23908","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

By Jeffrey Goldberg<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nFor half a century, memories of the Holocaust limited anti-Semitism on the Continent. That period has ended\u2014the recent fatal attacks in Paris and Copenhagen are merely the latest examples of rising violence against Jews. Renewed vitriol among right-wing fascists and new threats from radicalized Islamists have created a crisis, confronting Jews with an agonizing choice.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

All comes from the Jew; all returns to the Jew.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 \u00c9douard Drumont (1844\u20131917), founder of the Anti-Semitic League of France<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I. The Scourge of Our Time<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, the son of Holocaust survivors, is an accomplished, even gifted, pessimist. To his disciples, he is a Jewish Zola, accusing France\u2019s bien-pensant intellectual class of complicity in its own suicide. To his foes, he is a reactionary whose nostalgia for a fairy-tale French past is induced by an irrational fear of Muslims. Finkielkraut\u2019s cast of mind is generally dark, but when we met in Paris in early January, two days after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, he was positively grim.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy French identity is reinforced by the very large number of people who openly declare, often now with violence, their hostility to French values and culture,\u201d he said. \u201cI live in a strange place. There is so much guilt and so much worry.\u201d We were seated at a table in his apartment, near the Luxembourg Gardens. I had come to discuss with him the precarious future of French Jewry, but, as the hunt for the Charlie Hebdo killers seemed to be reaching its conclusion, we had become fixated on the television.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finkielkraut sees himself as an alienated man of the left. He says he loathes both radical Islamism and its most ferocious French critic, Marine Le Pen, the leader of France\u2019s extreme right-wing\u2014and once openly anti-Semitic\u2014National Front party. But he has lately come to find radical Islamism to be a more immediate, even existential, threat to France than the National Front. \u201cI don\u2019t trust Le Pen. I think there is real violence in her,\u201d he told me. \u201cBut she is so successful because there actually is a problem of Islam in France, and until now she has been the only one to dare say it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly, there was news: a kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, in eastern Paris, had come under attack. \u201cOf course,\u201d Finkielkraut said. \u201cThe Jews.\u201d Even before anti-Semitic riots broke out in France last summer, Finkielkraut had become preoccupied with the well-being of France\u2019s Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

We knew nothing about this new attack\u2014except that we already knew everything. \u201cPeople don\u2019t defend the Jews as we expected to be defended,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would be easier for the left to defend the Jews if the attackers were white and rightists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked him a very old Jewish question: Do you have a bag packed?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not leave,\u201d he said, \u201cbut maybe for our children or grandchildren there will be no choice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Reports suggested that a number of people were dead at the market. I said goodbye, and took the M\u00e9tro to Porte de Vincennes. Stations near the market were closed, so I walked through neighborhoods crowded with police. Sirens echoed through the streets. Teenagers gathered by the barricades, taking selfies. No one had much information. One young man, however, said of the victims, \u201cIt\u2019s just the Feuj.\u201d Feuj, an inversion of Juif\u2014\u201cJew\u201d\u2014is often used as a slur.<\/span><\/p>\n

I located an acquaintance, a man who volunteers with the Jewish Community Security Service, a national organization founded after a synagogue bombing in 1980, to protect Jewish institutions from anti-Semitic attack. \u201cSupermarkets now,\u201d he said bleakly. We made our way closer to the forward police line, and heard volleys of gunfire. The police had raided the market; the suspect, Amedy Coulibaly, we soon heard, was dead. So were four Jews he had murdered. They had been shopping for the Sabbath when he entered the market and started shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked Finkielkraut a very old Jewish question: Do you have a bag packed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

France\u2019s 475,000 Jews represent less than 1 percent of the country\u2019s population. Yet last year, according to the French Interior Ministry, 51 percent of all racist attacks targeted Jews. The statistics in other countries, including Great Britain, are similarly dismal. In 2014, Jews in Europe were murdered, raped, beaten, stalked, chased, harassed, spat on, and insulted for being Jewish. Sale Juif<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u2014\u201cdirty Jew\u201d\u2014rang in the streets, as did \u201cDeath to the Jews,\u201d and \u201cJews to the gas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The epithet dirty Jew<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, Zola wrote in \u201cJ\u2019Accuse \u2026!,\u201d was the \u201cscourge of our time.\u201d \u201cJ\u2019Accuse \u2026!\u201d was published in 1898.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in the Porte de Vincennes neighborhood of Paris in the aftermath of the January 9 attack that killed four Jews.<\/p>\n

Read more: Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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