Posted on 03/20/2007 1:12:29 PM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) More than 7,000 French Jews have signed a petition asking for political asylum in the United States because of anti-Semitism in France. The petition makes pointed reference to the murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was kidnapped and tortured to death last year by an anti-Semitic gang, and says that "following the barbarous murder of a young Jew because he was Jewish, in the context of the rise in anti-Semitic acts committed by Islamic fundamentalists, numerous members of the community no longer feel safe in France."
The petition was sent to the U.S. Congress and asks it to enact a law according French Jews refugee status.
Some French Jewish leaders were outraged: "This petition is bizarre, stupid and out of place," said Chaim Musicant, director of CRIF, the umbrella organization of secular French Jewish groups.
If murders and severe beatings combined with the riots over the last year are not enough, what makes you think this petition will 'jolt' the French?
I fear nothing less than the failure of the grape crop will jolt the French.
If they really want to be welcomed here, they'll have to go to Mexico and swim to the USA.
I will welcome any Jew who wants to come to the United States. I just hope most will understand our history and our culture. (not the filth and false degraded culture that liberals are creating).
More than 7,000 French Jews have signed a petition asking for political asylum in the United States because of anti-Semitism in France.
Exsqueeze me? Political asylum here?? Sorry, we're full up - try Israel.
After all, that WAS part of the purpose of forming that country now wasn't it. To have a homeland to escape anti-Semitism world wide.
Or just crash the border. Either way, if they come from down south, they'll get the red carpet treatment.
Bienvenue!
As you enter you can pass by the Statue of Liberty,
your gift to the US.
Let them in, even though they are French.
This poses a fascinating paradox. We must pick sides.
I too, hope Congress has the courage to support the Jews, but I think they're motivated more by fear than courage.
Quite possibly many of them speak English better than many of us.
France, it seems to me, is looking to appease the radicals and run off its educated. Let me see, keep the uneducated trouble makers or the educated Jews that can help the country grow. Oh the French do have hard decisions to make. And the French consider themselves to the upper crust of the world...oh please!
"After all, that WAS part of the purpose of forming that country now wasn't it. To have a homeland to escape anti-Semitism world wide."
Should Catholics seeking political asylum be forced to move to the Vatican then?
Ping
"I hope congress approves this. Last time (1939) they didn't."
Refresh my memory - in 1939, Israel did not exist, right? Then why are not French Jews seeking refuge in the Jewish state of Israel instead of the US?
I'd love the congress to officially accommodate these Jews, if only to show up Bush for uselessly sucking in thousands more hostile Saudi sandfleas.
But you have a really good point there.
They could seek refuge in Israel but why would we refuse them here? I don't think they have cut off heads in France for a few hundred years now.
Because Israel is closer to Iran then the US???
Just a guess on my part
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