My contribution to the Moment's symposium on antisemitism.
Summary :
For three generations, French Jews have enjoyed a golden age spanning the second half of the 20th century, but the landscape has changed dramatically in the last few years.
The expression of anti-Semitic views, to- tally unacceptable until a few years ago, is now commonplace. This revival is due to a fusion of native—but
until now mostly dormant—anti-Semitism with a virulent form common amongst Muslim immigrants.
There is a strange phenomenon of politically extremist ideologues teaming up with Muslims, who now account for 10 per- cent of France’s population of 66 million. These immigrants exhibited a naivete? on arrival—they did not under- stand that it was unacceptable or politically incorrect to be anti-Semitic. And they express this in violent ways.
The Symposium has been published as an e-book :
http://info.momentmag.com/ebook_anti-semitism_ty?submissionGuid=3331937c-2c5f-4195-ac0c-2c33b4dc1cb6