It is not going to get better and it looks as though it is getting worse.

Giulio Meotti The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. More from the author ► The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.

Ipsos, the major institute of French surveys, released a shocking report entitled “Development of relations with the other in French society”. In this case the “other” is the French Jew. And the results are shocking.

The question asked was about the flight of French Jews (5,000 in 2016): 60 percent of respondents said they are “indifferent”, 7 percent are “happy” and only 30 percent are “disappointed”.

It is a sign of these dramatic times, the rising of the new French Socialists’ candidate, Benoît Hamon, the representative of a radical left which Malek Boutih, socialist MP of Essonne, called “Islamo-leftist”. The socialist candidate for the Elysee, Hamon, nourishes in fact important links with the galaxy of the Muslim Brotherhood, while his opponent, Manuel Valls, had promised to fight, at least rhet`orically, Islamic fundamentalism in the name of secularism. Hamon’s spokesman, Alexis Bachelay, who is also MP from Hauts-de-Seine, defined a recent project of the city of Paris called “Tel Aviv on the Seine” as “Pretoria-sur-Seine”, because Israel is like “South Africa before Mandela’s release.” Not satisfied with that, Hamon’s spokesman also said that the “Pretoria regime was perhaps sweeter than the extreme right ruling in Israel”.



Benoît Hamon himself labelled the support for the “Palestinian cause” as “the best way to conquer the electorate in our suburbs”.

Benoît Hamon himself labelled the support for the “Palestinian cause” as “the best way to conquer the electorate in our suburbs”. The inspiring ideologue of Hamon, the Belgian philosopher Chantal Mouffe, signed the cultural boycott of Israel. Another candidate for the Socialist primary, former Education Minister Vincent Peillon, recently compared anti-Semitism and “Islamophobia”, while the secretary of the Socialist Party, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, said: “There is the same desire to stigmatize. Under Vichy it was the Jews, now it is the Muslims”.

Meanwhile, a mosque in Roubaix, in the north of France, the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, will host Hani Ramadan, brother of the famous Tariq and who has repeatedly attacked the “Zionist power.”

The Jews of France can surely hear the echoes from Vichy, when France sinned the sin of indifference and the of active collaboration with the Nazis.

Meanwhile, 40,000 Jews have left France for Israel in the last ten years. One-tenth of the total. What are the other French Jews waiting for?