In France, denouncing anti-Semitism is risky

 

In Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission” novel, the main character François continues his slow and inevitable decline towards nihilism, interrupted by occasional sexual dalliances with a Jewish student, Myriam. But France becomes dangerous to the Jews and Myriam finally moves to Israel.

 

This will soon be the fate of all of French Jewry, because in Paris it has become risky and dangerous even to denounce anti-Semitism.

 

Transmission “Répliques” on France 2. The guest is the historian of Moroccan origin, Georges Bensoussan, editorial director of Mémorial de la Shoah and the Revue d’histoire de la Shoah, one of the greatest scholars of anti-Semitism. There is talk about failed integration in the suburbs: “There will be no integration until we rid ourselves of this atavistic anti-Semitism”, says Bensoussan. And he quotes a sociologist, the Algerian Smain Laacher, who said that the Arab families in France, even if no one wants to say it out loud, “get anti-Semitism from their mothers’ milk”.

 

Georges Bensoussan was quickly overwhelmed by accusations and controversies. The Movement against Racism and for Friendship among Peoples, which has already succeeded in putting writers such as Oriana Fallaci and Michel Houellebecq on trial, has announced that it will drag Bensoussan to court for incitement to racial hatred and asked the leaders of the Memorial to distance themselves from this editorial director who promoted a “biological racism”... Read more.