A BBC survey about the Jewish community in France: "Never again: Fear and Faith in Paris"

 

Like the article "London Becomes a Leading Destination for French Jews After Attacks" released April 22, 2016 in the International New York Times, the international medias are echoing the departure of Jews from France to other countries, in the first place to Israel, but also, closer to the continent, to England.

 

Starting with an empirical observation of the increasing number of francophones in synagogues and in jewish schools in London, the BBC decided to investigate about the fears of the Jewish community in France and its motivations to emigrate to England. The brittish chanel filmed the documentary "Never again : Fear and Faith in Paris", aired on April 26, 2016.

 

With a comparative perspective, the authors presented the situation of the French Jewish community and that of Britain. Their question was : in addition to the state of the economy, what could explain the feeling of well-being among French Jews living in England?

 

Without naivety or Manichaeism, this BBC documentary shows that in Britain too, anti-Semitism has increased these recent years, and Islamist radicalization is part of the phenomenas raising concern among French Jews. But confronted to the number of Jews who died in the last 10 years in France, simply because they were Jews, the common trend analyzes give way to this French reality that haunts the contemporary of all respondents, those who leave as well as those who choose to stay.

 

On the same subject : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/world/europe/london-france-jews-terrorism-anti-semitism.html?_r=0

 

Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0791psw/never-again-fear-and-faith-in-paris