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February 10, 2020

While Some Jews Flee France, Others Flee the French Idea

For French Muslims, anti-Semitism has become social and political “cement.”

Following an Islamic State terrorist’s attack on a French kosher supermarket in 2015, Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that if his Jewish compatriots were to leave the country en masse, “France would not be France.” Yet there are no sign things are getting better, with 2018 seeing a 74-percent increase in assaults on Jews since the previous year. Jews also continue to leave the country, though the numbers are down since the 2014 high-water mark. But, writes Robert Zaretsky, citing a recent study, the statistics don’t tell the whole story:

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