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France's Anti-Semitism


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The hate in France has grown to such an extreme that the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a first ever travel advisory for jews traveling to France.

TRAVEL ADVISORY

FRANCE - In the last 18 months there have been over 400 hate crimes against Jewish targets in France including, in recent days, arson attacks against synagogues, Jewish institutions, beatings of Jewish school children and pedestrians and other acts of threats and intimidation in Paris, Marseilles, Lyon and other communities. As a result, the Simon Wiesenthal Center urges Jewish travelers to France to exercise extreme caution while traveling to that country.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pr_item.cfm?ItemID=5470

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Well, I agree with Nuker for his point there. Jews weren't allowed into labor guilds for a while, so the only direction they could go towards was best encompassed by the titles of trade and philosophy. This has given established Jewish communities an emphasis towards to higher education and learning, and the great necessity for money. I know this from experience, in Chicago, the Jewish part of my family is all very well educated, possess respectable executive career positions, and are all very rich without exception.

I have little opinion to offer with regards to France, except that they tend towards the snobbish end of the spectrum and have completely forgotten how much they suffered in WW2, along with the fact that many countries dug them out.

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to go back to antisemitism or racism in general, Denmark has some of the most liberal laws on the issue. DNSP-Dansk Nationalsocialistisk Parti sounds a bit like Deutsche National Socialistische Arbeiter Partei no?

I won't say that antisimitism has flourished here but the general stand on the Israel conflict isn't in the Israeli governments favor, not even among the danish jews (except the ortodoks)

If you look at France's history you'll notice it had colonies, some of them with Islam as main religion. Some of these moved to France wich is perfectly fine. But with the conflict in Israel tension will get high and Islamic fundamentlists will want to get 'even' on the the jewish people for what they do (allthough they have nothing to do with it)

As I recall some of the same things happened in USA with Mosks and people from the middleeast after 9-11. Am I not right?

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As I recall some of the same things happened in USA with Mosks and people from the middleeast after 9-11. Am I not right?

that is true. it happened....then it stopped. France is nothing like this. It happens.....it continues to happen.....it simply continues to happen.

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Mainly because the landed tend to be those who have been settled there for a very long time, and Jews in Europe rarely fall into that category.

I can say feudal lords cheered on every peasant more. But Jews always were only in towns. It was a choice, not their only possible destiny.

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