Israel must stop encouraging French Jews to emigrate

[oberliner]

It’s a fine line - and we Israelis have been stomping right over it.

It’s the distinction between generously offering Israel as a refuge for traumatized French Jews - and insensitive self-serving opportunism that infantilizes and undermines Diaspora Jewry.

The numbers don’t lie. Thousands of French families have decided that the time has come to leave their country. Some - though not all - have decided to make Israel their destination. But immigration anywhere is a painful and personal decision that takes a tremendous numbers of factors into account - economic, family relationships, cultural self-confidence, career opportunities. It isn’t a sudden and impulsive decision one makes on the basis of an incident, no matter how horrific. And it certainly isn’t something you do because the politicians leading that country instruct you to do it.

That is exactly what Israeli leaders are doing.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/routine-emergencies/.premium-1.636482

[sadoldgirl]

1. Since I have I rather high opinion

of the French Jewish population, I hope they stay,
and keep on fighting with the rest of France against
any kind of discrimination or attack.

We know, how we have been manipulated into the fear attitude
by the Republicans, which only led to something like the illegal
actions of the NSA, CIA, etc.

I hope that all of the European countries will not follow in
our footsteps, and instead come together, no matter what
race, ethnicity,or belief. France could and should lead
the way.

[Israeli]

2. Agree with.....

" That is exactly what Israeli leaders are doing. "

and here is why .....

The real reason Bibi wants French Jews to move to Israel

By calling on France’s Jews to move to Israel, Netanyahu is promoting a worldview in which there is no national conflict, no occupation and no Palestinian people. There are only Jews and radical Muslims.

http://972mag.com/the-real-reason-bibi-wants-french-jews-to-move-to-israel/101201/

Muslim presence in Europe, and the never-ending discussions surrounding its potential dangers, play right into the hands of Netanyahu, who seeks to strengthen the simplistic worldview that puts Jews in the position of eternal victim – whether of new-old anti-Semitism or radical Islam. Strengthening this perspective serves Netanyahu in two ways: when he speaks directly to the Jews of France (the prime minister is surely not blind to the political potential of securing their votes as future citizens of his country), as well as in the local context. There is nothing more effective for Bibi than lumping together all the Jews in the world and presenting them as a united front against “the threat of radical Islam,” thus conflating Islamic State, Hamas and Iran. This helps Netanyahu promote a worldview in which there is no national conflict, no occupation, no Palestinian people and no blatant disregard for human rights. There are only Jews and Muslims. Turns out we look a lot better fighting a religious war than we do running an occupation.

[LeftishBrit]

3. I fully agree

though it should be noted that there are worse and commoner things than the over-encouragement of immigration, i.e. the fanatical xenophobia of many countries that makes it almost impossible for refugees to immigrate.