President Hollande to Congress of Jewish communities in France: ‘the future of French Jews is in France’   by: Shari Ryness

Predsjednik Hollande na Kongresu židovskih zajednica u Francuskoj: "Budućnost francuskih Židova je u Francuskoj".

PARIS (EJP) --- French President Francois Hollande sought to reassure French Jews of their secure future in the Republic as he made the keynote address to the Second Congress of Jewish Communities in France Sunday. ...

Paris(EJP) Francuski predsjednik Hollande je nastojao uvjeriti francuske Židove u njihovu sigurnu budućnost u Republici , prilikom svog govora  u nedjelju na Drugom kongresu židovskih zajednica. U govoru delegatima Pariza, on je posvjedočio da država nastavlja sa naporima u borbi protiv antisemitizma, zbog toga što zna kako se francuski Židovi brinu za svoju sigurnost nakon što je ubijeno troje djece i roditelj kod škole u Toulousu. Zaključio je da će Židovska zajednica od 600.000 članova nastaviti živjeti jer "Francuska je jača nego mržnja koja nas nastoji razdvojiti"...

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His words also recalled Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial call to French Jews on a state visit to Paris last November, when the Israeli leader provoked the ire of the French President by saying “come to Israel and make Israel your home”. Whilst conceding he understood Netanyahu’s sentiment in positioning Israel as home to all Jews wishing to relocate, Hollande responded that “the place for Jews in France, if they should so choose, is to be in France, it’s to work in France, to live in France, in total security. And that is my goal”....

“When a citizen’s security is called into question because he’s Jewish, all of France is under attack. Because here in France the principle we have long held dear, is that of secularism. We don’t distinguish between citizens according to their religion. We protect everyone,”..

Briefly referencing the Iranian nuclear threat, which Israel fears in turn will continue to harbour threats for its own existence, he warned that “it is not only Israel that is threatened but the entire region would be upset by this possible accession, not only the Middle East but Europe”, ..

Rounding out his address, he sought to assuage the concerns of French Jews about their future place in France, as he concluded: 

“The Republic needs all of you, what you bring through your mind business, your commitment, your efforts, your talents, your merits. And you need the Republic and France because without it, you would not be what you are."

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A Jewish family from a suburb east of the capital was victim to to a sustained violent attack on June 18 by a group armed with iron bars and baseball bats and shouting Nazi insults.

The attack occurred in the late afternoon in Lesigny after the family’s young son asked a motorcyclist to slow down in an area containing a small street and where children were crossing.

The man returned with five colleagues armed with the iron bars and basebats, shouting a host of pro-Hitler and anti-semitic insults and attacking the family.