tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post112261526668988064..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: Sharon urges all French Jews to "rush to start packing [their] bags"Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1122655532543042572005-07-29T12:45:00.000-04:002005-07-29T12:45:00.000-04:00I heard one french commentator that said that allo...I heard one french commentator that said that allowing mass immigration of muslims into France was the biggest post-war mistake france made.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1122649751082449632005-07-29T11:09:00.000-04:002005-07-29T11:09:00.000-04:00Anonymous: Herzl would've said less. But the exist...Anonymous: Herzl would've said less. But the existence of antisemitism--even antisemitic violence, in the form of attacks on those perceived as Jewish--in parts of Europe and elsewhere where no Jews are living suggests that France wouldn't necessarily shape up if it no longer had Jews living there. Also, if all French Jews left, it would just confirm antisemites' suspicions that these Jews were never really French to begin with.<BR/><BR/>Victor: Whatever positive influence French Jews have on France, is it worth more than the one they might have on Israel?Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1122644886517996562005-07-29T09:48:00.000-04:002005-07-29T09:48:00.000-04:00French Jews were very active in the democratizatio...French Jews were very active in the democratization and secularization of France throughout the nineteenth century. The Paris synagogues were schools of republicanism and the Jewish community as a whole was one of the Third Republic's most loyal sources of support. <BR/><BR/>Of course, France on 2005 is no longer fraught with the conflicts over its own religious identity that were so dominant in 1905; she is no longuer—and no longer wishes to be—<EM>la fille aineé de l'Eglise</EM>. But I cannot help but think that the loss of those religious republican voices that remain in France (mostly liberal Jews and heirs of the Huguenots) would give new hope to those nostalgic for the old ultramontanism.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10315032509590000148noreply@blogger.com