Mosiac Magazine The ever-increasing Islamization of Europe added to the presence os anti-Semitism is, I believe, akin to the Nazification of the 1930's as it relates to the future of European Jews. TD
"Michel Gurfinkiel is in the tradition of the great French essayists who put the issues of the day squarely before the public. It is a bold thing to do, especially when the subject under discussion is the fate of the Jews.
"Since 2000 in France alone, as Gurfinkiel notes, 7,650 anti-Semitic incidents ranging from petty insults to brutal racist murders have been reported, and this statistic ignores many more incidents that are known to have occurred but
were not reported to the authorities. Things have come to the point where the chief rabbi of France advises Jews not to wear a kippah (right) in the street because it makes them recognizable as Jews. “Never” has dropped out of the slogan of solidarity, leaving “Again” to stand on its own."
Author Pryce-Jones makes a case I find fascinating: that Europe has rejected the concept of nation-states (the Euro being evidence of that) and the sense of nationhood in Israel is anathema to them. All this while- conversely -making Palestine a nation-state the Holy Grail of liberal nations. Looking into the future:
"If Jews do indeed abandon Europe, it will be to escape a situation in which their very identity is increasingly treated as a matter of suspicion and political contention. Should an emigration en masse come to be a reality, Gurfinkiel concludes, it would constitute “a profound blow to the collective psyche of the Jewish people” as well as a shattering judgment on the “so-called European idea.” In the absence of living Jews, Europeans will have nothing but Holocaust museums and memorials on which to base the moral reckoning of their past."
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"Michel Gurfinkiel is in the tradition of the great French essayists who put the issues of the day squarely before the public. It is a bold thing to do, especially when the subject under discussion is the fate of the Jews.
"Since 2000 in France alone, as Gurfinkiel notes, 7,650 anti-Semitic incidents ranging from petty insults to brutal racist murders have been reported, and this statistic ignores many more incidents that are known to have occurred but Author Pryce-Jones makes a case I find fascinating: that Europe has rejected the concept of nation-states (the Euro being evidence of that) and the sense of nationhood in Israel is anathema to them. All this while- conversely -making Palestine a nation-state the Holy Grail of liberal nations. Looking into the future:
"If Jews do indeed abandon Europe, it will be to escape a situation in which their very identity is increasingly treated as a matter of suspicion and political contention. Should an emigration en masse come to be a reality, Gurfinkiel concludes, it would constitute “a profound blow to the collective psyche of the Jewish people” as well as a shattering judgment on the “so-called European idea.” In the absence of living Jews, Europeans will have nothing but Holocaust museums and memorials on which to base the moral reckoning of their past."
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