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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (52824)	7/5/2004 6:42:22 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793782

In Europe This Week EURSOC Two 05 July, 2004 Are France's Jews fleeing? Things must be bad in Paris if large numbers of Jews are leaving France for the relative safety of Israel. According to the most official-looking figures available, the number of Jews emigrating from France to Israel has doubled in the past couple of years. Around 2000 French Jews left in 2003. Many refugees cite increased attacks by Jew-haters in France's large housing estates, where Muslims and Jews often live side by side. It has become commonplace for religious Jews to cover their kipa skullcaps with baseball caps to avoid unwelcome attention. In some areas, Synagogues are so well-fortified they look more like Northern Irish police stations than places of worship. More often than not, attacks on Jews are blamed on Israel actions against Palestinians. Commentators point to the large number of Arab-language satellite channels which broadcast anti-Israel propaganda to France's North African communities. French TV doesn't help either - it's hugely biased against Israel, leading one migrant to move to Israel in the hope of setting up his own web-based news channel in French to try to correct the balance. The Herald Tribune suggests that the current wave of migration is a flow, rather than a flood. Equally, it interviews one Israeli immigration committee member who claims that she does not expect "all hell to break loose" in France. We hope she's right - but only last year, an enormous anti-Israel march passed by EURSOC's Paris offices. Your reporter walked along the sidestreets to avoid the display. Groups of riot cops were clustered around certain streets, paying little attention to the marchers. When I asked a riot cop why they were gathered in these areas and not lining the route, he told me that they were protecting the synagogues in the neighbourhood. eursoc.com