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Published on 6 April 2016

French jewish official : jewish parents pulling children out of public schools to protect them from muslims

"Jewish parents are very worried and questioning the future of their children in this country".

By Lea Speyer, published in the Algemeiner April 5, 2016
 
The number of Jews enrolled in France’s public school system has decreased significantly as parents seek to protect their children from Muslim students, a French Jewish security official told international channel VICE News on Tuesday.
 
Robert Ejness, director general of CRIF, French Jewry’s umbrella organization, said that Jewish parents are "very worried and questioning the future of their children in this country."
 
Ejness explained : "This is an unstable situation that we’ve not known in the past. In 1970, only 7,000 French kids went to Jewish schools. Today, it’s 35,000 and 35,000 are going to Christian schools…One of the issues is the integration of the Muslim population…that has arrived in France in the last 20-30 years which has not been integrated, which has refused also to be integrated in the French system"... Read more.