MELANIE PHILIPS: A most powerful and disturbing piece by Professor Shmuel Trigano on the parlous state of French Jewry, subjected over the past few years to a shocking degree of physical and existential attack, poses an even bigger question mark over the fate of France itself. Here’s a sample of his argument:
The problem of French Jewry is related, of course, to the emergence on the political stage of a new population, including important sectors that carry a latent antisemitism which has been revived by militant fundamentalism. Because the new population is experiencing significant demographic growth, it is being courted by the political parties. French society seems then to have sacrificed the Jews in order not to alienate French Arabs and Muslims. A fatal choice has been made. French Jews at the crossroads (Read on)
Mark Alexander
