Jews, France Is Not Yours!

ב' לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ד

Arutz 7: 'Jews, Out of France!'
Chilling video shows hundreds of anti-Semites on the march in Paris, illustrating the frightening rise of anti-Semitism in France.

Ari Soffer, 1/29/2014

It is nothing short of chilling.

A video, taken on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, shows masses of French protesters marching down a Paris thoroughfare chanting openly anti-Semitic slogans and calling on Jews to get out of France.

Chants include "Jews, France is not yours!" "Jews out of France" and "The story of the gas chambers is bull***!" At one point, in a show of raw, seething hatred, the crowd simply spits out the word "Jew, Jew, Jew!"

Many of the marchers can be seen giving the "quenelle" inverted Nazi salute popularized by anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonne. The gesture is seen as a way for anti-Semites to give a Nazi salute without incurring the wrath of authorities - although one demonstrator can be seen giving a full-on Nazi salute as well. (time marker 00:25)



It was part of a "Day of Anger" called by anti-government activists in protest of a variety of "anti-establishment" causes. French police estimated that around 17,000 people had attended the march, and said that 250 had been arrested. Police told AFP news agency that 19 police officers were injured in clashes with demonstrators, one seriously.

Despite claims by Dieudonne and some of his supporters that it is simply an innocent "up yours" or "anti-establishment" gesture, it has been adopted by a vast range of anti-Semites, from the far-right to Muslim extremists, many of whom post online pictures of themselves making the salute in front of sensitive sites such as Holocaust memorials, synagogues, and even the school in Toulouse at which an Islamist gunman murdered a rabbi and three Jewish children.

Dieudonne himself has a long history of anti-Semitic comments and shows, including a recent video in which he implies the Jewish victims of the Holocaust may themselves be to blame for their own genocide.

Apart from the quenelle gestures, the marchers can clearly be heard singing a song mocking the Holocaust composed by Dieudonne, entitled "Shoananas". The song is yet another masterful attempt by Dieudonne to trivialize and legitimize anti-Semitism; it is a play on the Hebrew word for the Holocaust (Shoah) and the French word for pineapple (ananas).

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Regardless of the supposed motivations for the initiation of such an event, it still elucidates very well three main themes, recurring over and over in our recent history:

1. Esau (West/Christians) hates Ya'aqov; Yishma'el (Arabs/Muslims) hates Ya'aqov (Rashb"i),...still.

2. We care too much when the goyim (non-Jews) express hatred toward us; we care too much when the goyim express love, or even lack of hate, for us, such as Canadian PM Stephen Harper, Fundamentalist Christians, even celebrities like Madonna, Alicia Keys, and Scarlett Johannson.

3. We are still too invested in Galuth (exile).

Jew-hatred is wrong. However, it does not mean that there is not an important lesson or two to be learned from it, such as "Juif, la France n'est pas a toi!" (Jews, France is not Yours!).

The various news media still present the "exodus" from France as some kin dof tragedy.

But, the reality is that French Jews have been waking up to the reality, that Israeli is their only true Homeland, not France, not Morocco, not Tunisia, not Algeria, and not Montréal.

It would nice if Jews residing in other foreign countries, like the U. S. and Canada would take this example to heart. The problem is that they still do not see those countries as being foreign.