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French Jews are fleeing the country amid growing fears of anti-Semitism, exacerbated by the latest terrorist attacks in Paris.
Every single French Jew I know has either left or is actively working out how to leave.
— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) January 9, 2015
Stephen Pollard, the editor of the Jewish newspaper said an exodus had begun, and “every single French Jew I know has either left or is actively working out how to leave”.
He added that the situation was “the largest emigration of Jews anywhere since the war”.
His comments in a series of tweets followed a bloody siege in a kosher supermarket in Paris, in which a terrorist took six people hostage in a standoff linked to the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which killed 12 people.
Pollard said Jews in Europe would this weekend be questioning whether they are safe after the attacks, amid a tide of rising anti-Semitism in the country.
France has one of the largest populations of Jews in the western world, but many now feel under threat, according to reports.
The European Jewish Congress and Tel Aviv University, found there were more violent anti-Semitic incidents in France in 2013 than any country in the world.
Agencies/Canadajournal
