French Islamization and Britain's Jewish Fallout

Over the last few years, the largest Jewish community in Europe and the largest Muslim community in Europe, both resident in France, the former well integrated over hundreds of years of proud citizenship, the latter ghettoized, deliberately self-segregated, resentful and unemployed in their inability to accept French values, have resulted in French Jews experiencing a tsunami of anti-Semitism and violent attacks, threats and terrorism from the much larger Muslim community.

Two men perform a quenelle in western France in 2014. Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images

Even while France half-heartedly acknowledged the growing incidences of anti-Semitism, impossible to overlook by their very vicious reality where marchers with placards insinuating that a new Holocaust is set to take place, where synagogues are fire-bombed, where innocent French Jews are abducted and tortured, or homes invaded and rapes take place, above all, where Jewish schools are attacked and schoolchildren slaughtered, Jews in France have felt unprotected and vulnerable.

The latest attack on a Paris suburb kosher market where an Islamist claiming affiliation with ISIS murdered four French Jews will now ensure that more of the Jewish community will be prepared to pack up and leave their cherished France for more secure climes abroad; from Israel to Britain, the United States to Canada. "If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France", declared French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

"The French Republic will be judged a failure", he lamented. Quite so. France has been transformed by its ten-percent population absorption of Muslims. French society is no longer what it once was. Violence has become more prevalent, and the threats against the Jewish population of the country have steadily increased, one atrocity after another. Despite which, official France bridles when an Israeli prime minister speaks persuasively to French Jews to make aliyah to Israel.

Many plan to depart France, leaving their hearts behind in their French homeland, but convinced there is no future in France for their children. Many go to Britain. Small comfort they will find there. One in two Brits embrace anti-Semitism, according to recent surveys. A poll of several thousand Jewish Brits conducted by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism found 45 percent feared no future in Britain while 58% were convinced there is no long-term future in Europe at all.

Footballer Nicholas Anelka, pictured, was fined £80,000 last year for making an anti-Semitic gesture 

As Europe has become more Islam-centric and hosts ever burgeoning Muslim populations, it becomes far less feasible for Jews to live there. Jews do not threaten Muslims, nor do they seek to slander them, nor physically harm them. But the reverse cannot be said to be true, and Jews are increasingly victimized by the hatred and bigotry of Europe's growing Muslim demographic. In addition to which there is fertile ground in Europe beyond Muslims for growing anti-Semitism.

Other polls simply confirm that anti-Semitism is on a growth-spurge in Britain. "Britain is at a tipping point. Unless anti-Semitism is met with zero tolerance, it will grow and British Jews will increasingly question their place in their own country." One-fourth of British Jews surveyed by the CAA claimed they had been considering leaving Britain in the last two years. 2014 rendered the greatest number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded by police since such records were kept 30 years ago.

Jewish organisations in Britain have called for a zero tolerance approach to anti-semitism

London's metropolitan police official figures show anti-Semitic crimes have more than doubled between November 2013 and 2014, in comparison to a year earlier. One might call that the writing on the wall. And it's a warning that Jews do not feel they can be oblivious to. Much depends on the actions they choose to take to seek safe haven.

In French Jews migrating to England for safety, one is reminded of Spanish Jews and conversos leaving the scene of the Spanish Inquisition for safety in Portugal -- until the Inquisition caught up with them there, too.