European Leaders Reject Netanyahu calls for Jewish mass migration to Israel

[Fred Sanders]

http://www.demanjo.com/news/world/550290/leaders-reject-netanyahu-calls-for-jewish-mass-migration-to-israel.html


Leaders reject Netanyahu calls for Jewish mass migration to Israel

"European leaders have rejected calls by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, for Jews to migrate en masse to Israel, pledging to ensure their safety at home.

Following shootings in Copenhagen at the weekend, Netanyahu echoed remarks he made after the Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January, saying on Sunday: This wave of terror attacks can be expected to continue, including antisemitic and murderous attacks.

The French president, François Hollande, insisted on Monday that he would not allow people to believe that Jews no longer have a place in Europe.

Jews have their place in Europe and, in particular, in France, he said. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said her government would do everything possible to make sure Jewish sites were secure."

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"We know there are doubts, questions across the community," Hollande said. "I will not just let what was said in Israel pass, leading people to believe that Jews no longer have a place in Europe and in France, in particular."

Jews also “belong in Denmark, they are part of the Danish community and we wouldn’t be the same without the Jewish community in Denmark,” Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said.

On Sunday, hundreds of Jewish tombstones were found vandalized in eastern France, hours after a Danish Jew guarding a synagogue in Copenhagen was shot to death. Frenchmen have been accused of three deadly attacks on Jewish sites since 2012: one at a school in the southern city of Toulouse, another at a museum in Brussels and finally one at a kosher market in Paris last month. Twelve people died in total.

Hollande, speaking at the vandalized Jewish cemetery in the town of Sarre-Union on Tuesday, noted that anti-Semitism and acts against Muslims are both on the rise in France.

Hollande said anti-Semitic acts doubled in 2014 compared with 2013, and acts against Muslims in just the month after the attacks totaled the same as the entire previous year.

Those figures were underscored in a report on France released Tuesday by the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks. The upward trend was part of an overall rise in racism in France, which shows that acts of discrimination and hate speech are resisting government efforts to beat back persistent intolerance.

[elfin]

1. Israel's demographics are why Bebe is trumpeting this

Too many non-Jews in the region and increasing within Israel, threatening the hybrid form of government that while it has many essentials of democracy, is also a theocracy.

Unless there is a great influx of Jews, especially younger ones who will procreate, Israel faces an even more complicated future than its already complicated present.

[Egnever]

2. Agreed