Famed French-Jewish philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut, is now afraid to leave his home. At a recent rally in Paris, the Jewish intellectual was approached by some of the marchers, who yelled at him: “F*** off, you dirty piece of s*** Zionist”. Another one, a Salafist, shouted: “France belongs to us (Muslims)! You racist! You hater! You’re going to die!”
The Atlantic 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’s 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’s cast of mind is generally dark, but when we met in Paris in early January, two days after the Charlie Hebdomassacre, he was positively grim.
“My 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,” he said. “I live in a strange place. There is so much guilt and so much worry.” 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.
France’s 475,000 Jews (down from more than 500,000 just a few years ago) represent less than 1 percent of the country’s population. Yet last year, according to the French Interior Ministry, a majority of all racist attacks targeted Jews.
But what makes this new era of anti-Semitic violence in Europe different from previous ones is that traditional Western patterns of anti-Semitic thought have now merged with a potent strain of Muslim Judeophobia. Violence against Jews in Western Europe today, according to those who track it, appears to come mainly from Muslims, who in France, the epicenter of Europe’s Jewish crisis, outnumber Jews 10 to 1.
INN The recent rally in Paris was not the first time he was attacked. In 2016, Finkielkraut was violently ejected from a public gathering in Paris. He was heckled by protesters shouting “fascist” and “racist” at a rally organized by the Nuit Debout, or White Night.
When the world-renowned intellectual and philosopher Finkielkraut gave his last lesson at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, at his arrival a group of students throwing cakes at him. In another previous video, Finkielkraut is filmed walking near the Seine. From the other side of the river, a person yells at him “s***”!”
And many from the French Left blamed the Jewish philosopher himself. “Alain Finkielkraut spread hatred in France, against young people in the suburbs, against Muslims, against national education,” tweeted Thomas Guénolé, a political scientist close to leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The lawyer close to former president Hollande, Jean-Pierre Mignard, said that “Finkielkraut is an apologist for the conflict.”
Finkielkraut is not the first public intellectual fearing for his life in France. After addressing the question of Islamic intimidation in a newspaper article in Le Figaro, Robert Redeker became a ghost with no public address and protected by the police. Eric Zemmour, another Jewish conservative intellectual, is also protected by the police.
There are an estimated 15,000 Salafists among France’s seven million Muslims. Their preachers call for a civil war. Islamists are free to openly incite their communities against France, where today many things are disappearing: thousands of Jews and all Jewish symbols from many cities and banlieue, subjects such as the Crusades and Holocaust at public schools, women from certain Islamicized cafes, cartoonists after the massacre atCharlie Hebdo and now Finkielkraut fearing for his life.
In a recent essay, Michel Gurfinkiel described the “the passing of France as a distinct country, or at least as the Western, Judeo-Christian nation it had hitherto been presumed to be. Regarding France in 2019, it can no longer be denied that a momentous and hazardous transformation, a ‘Great Switch’, is in the making”. It is the Islamization of the French public sphere.
In case you missed it, here is the interview with Katie Hopkins about Jews fleeing France because of Muslims.
Charles Black says
If only the French had the opportunity to vote in Le Pen to throw out the invaders. Oh wait they threw that opportunity away never mind.
Crusader Tough says
Le Pen needs to become the leader of France.
Hartmut says
It is not time to leave but to fight back. This, however, is easier said than done with repressive administrations and law enforcement widely exculpating invading criminals and at the same time incriminating anyone revolting against just that practice.
Andrew says
I know a French woman that lives in the centre of Paris, her female friend who lives around the corner is now in fear of her life as she walks out her door African men on the street call her a whore and tell her they will rape her, she is 70 years old, my friend has also had Africans shout at her as she walks down the street and is now in fear of what may happen to her one evening as she comes out her front door, and so now she either has a friend pick her up or calls a taxi and makes sure the driver is not a muslim.
This is just two examples of French women living in Paris for the last 50 years and are now in fear of walking the streets of what they always called home.
BareNakedIslam says
I hope the French are proud of themselves for allowing this to happen.
Az gal says
Soon, not just the Jews, but Christains & all others will be afraid in Western Europe to leave their houses as well, if not already. Thanks to their new Muslum masters.
Linda Rivera says
France does NOT belong to Muslims.
France belongs to the HOLY ONE of Israel, our Precious, Majestic, Awesome Creator, Pure Holy and Absolutely Good, who dwells in unapproachable light. The total opposite of the Muslim god.
Linda Rivera says
Sahih Bukhari (52:177) – Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”
Was it not enough for ruthless European and British leaders that God hater Hitler and his God hater Nazis savagely slaughtered six million Jews in the Holocaust, that they colonized our nations with Muslims whose BLOODTHIRSTY QURAN WAR BOOK commands Muslims to murder every Jew?
God promised to give us justice: Bible, Proverbs 12:14 “The deeds of a man’s hands will return to him.”
God will give back to the Evil Ones the terrible things they did to others.
Bible, Romans 12:19
“VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.
Linda Rivera says
IIan Halimi’s suffering in France caused me extreme distress.
I will never forget IIan Halimi.
Dear Precious Ilan Halimi: The police did not inform the public about your abduction; preventing an alerted public from helping locate you. Preventing millions around the world praying for you.
Apparently, the police did not trace the phone calls and emails your captors made to your family-it was reported in the communications, your captors referred repeatedly to your Judaism, and recited verses from the Koran as you screamed in agony.
Dear Ilan, you will never experience the undying love of a wife, the young woman who would have been your life-long partner…
You will never know the children you would have had –- come running towards you with out flung arms, “Abba, daddy, I picked these flowers just for you!”
You were going to make aliyah, for G-D said in the Bible, Ezekiel 36:28: “You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers.”
Jews gave the world so much: Civilization – knowledge
of the One true G-D, the Bible, G-D’s laws that protect!
And huge numbers of discoveries in medicine, science and agriculture, etc. way beyond the Jews’ small numbers upon this earth! Fulfillments of G-D’s Biblical promise…
PRECIOUS Ilan, We Will NEVER FORGET YOU!
The Biblical promise, that through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all the nations would be blessed!
Ilan, a light went out in the world when you left it! G-D promised in the Bible, a future world where the violent, evil ones will never again hurt another human being. We will see you, then, Ilan.
Until then, precious Ilan, we will never forget you.
Cleavis Nowell (@CleavisNowell) says
Better for France to be occupied by Russia or China than hyena sharia islamists.
Underzog says
Off topic: resquiscat in pace, Grumpy. We love you and miss you:
BareNakedIslam says
Zog, I moved this to the Main page. Thanks.
Lee Sargeant says
Too bad so many Jews wait until things get so bad that they are either afraid, or ready to move away. One day there will be nowhere to runaway to.
BareNakedIslam says
Lee, the 1940’s is not ancient history. Yet leftist Jews seem to have forgotten it.
GORNISH-HELFEN says
Lee Sargeant,
Eretz Yisrael will absorb all French Jews. I exhort the French Jews not to wait for the last train to leave Paris. It not only can happen there, it is happening. The Jews of pre Shoah Europe were of two types. Those who saw the signs and even post German occupancy, got out with forged papers on the last trains out of Poland. My ex’s mother was one who fled with forged documents. A Pole attempted to ‘turn her in”. She said that the way they knew you were Jewish was by the fear in your eyes. She was luckily stone-faced. She made it out to Khazakstan. French Jews, I implore you, GET OUT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, WHAT KIND OF LIFE IS THAT YOU ARE LIVING. iSRAEL SHOULD BE YOUR DESTINATION, THE SOONER THE BETTER. DO NOT WAIT FOR THE LAST TRAIN TO LEAVE PARIS, GO NOW, PLEASE, DO IT FOR YOUR CHILDREN, AND G RANDCHILDREN, REMEMBER THE SHOAH.