#Crif - "Si le terrorisme vise tous les français, les juifs restent une cible privilégiée", selon Francis Kalifat

 

"Ce qui est important à savoir aujourd'hui, c'est que - même si les Juifs restent une cible - ils ne sont pas les seuls", a déclaré Francis Kalifat, Président du Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France, la plus grande organisation de défense juive de France.

 

The Jewish New Year is supposed to be a time of joy: apples and honey, family and faith.

 

But in France — home to Europe’s largest Jewish community — the High Holidays are also a time of metal detectors and full-body pat-downs, ID checks and security interviews on the streets outside synagogues.

 

In the France of 2016, this is the new normal. But contrary to widespread reports of a possible Jewish “exodus” from France to Israel, French Jews are still very much here, adjusting to a new, arbitrary terrorist threat that targets people not just because of their religion but even for the cafe terraces they choose.

 

“What’s important is to know that today — even if the Jews remain a target — they are not the only ones,” said Francis Kalifat, the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, France’s largest Jewish advocacy organization.

 

For years, anti-Semitic violence has been a mainstay in French headlines: stabbings, shootings, slurs. After the January 2015 attack at a kosher supermarket outside Paris, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, urged French Jews to move to Israel... Lire l'intégralité.