The antisemitic sentiment already prevalent among French Jews will intensify in the wake of Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel last month.

Note how the decision of President Trump is the focus of the first paragraph, rather than “radical Islamists stuck a knife in my chest”; “every day we are attacked”; “I’m scared of going outside and showing my face. I’m forced to wear a cap every day to hide my kippah”; and according to the French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, “in our country, antisemitism is alive…it hides always behind new masks, attempts to justify itself through diverse reasons. This ideology of hate is here, it’s present and it’s making some French Jews to make ‘aliyah.'”

Jihadists and Islamic supremacists represent a systemic and organized face of anti-Semitism today as they seek to delegitimize and ultimately obliterate the Jewish state of Israel. With this in mind, a declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is just the latest pretext for their hatred and violence.

Donald Trump is not to blame for their actions. Instead, appeasers are to be blamed. Jihadists have stated and continue to state openly and precisely what their objectives and goals are. Appeasers choose not to believe them, despite overwhelming evidence everywhere. Jihadists have grown accustomed to appeasement, which has emboldened them, and they are now enraged because Trump decided to stand up to them rather than continuing the universal appeasement. Now they are making life unbearable for Jews in France and increasingly in Germany, while leaders tolerate the abuse.

“‘There will soon be no Jews in France’ as antisemitism escalates”, RT News, January 7, 2018: