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Source: http://www.azure.org.il/magazine/magazine.asp?id=250
Is There a Future for French Jewry?
(Azure-Shalem Center) Shmuel Trigano - Contrary to much of what is said today about anti-Jewish sentiment in France, its roots are to be found not in any specific Israeli policy with respect to the Palestinians. Rather, they lie deep within the French body politic. Political Zionism was itself conceived in Paris. As a young reporter covering the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, Theodor Herzl saw clearly how untenable was the condition of the Jew in modern Europe. Although Jews have been citizens of France for two centuries, in much of today's France, association with the Jewish community has become a basis for exclusion, and Zionism an unforgivable sin.