As a follow-up to my recent letter concerning the Holocaust and the slogan “never again,” I have been shocked by just how much Jew-hating is going on in France. According to my readings, it’s similar to what happened in Germany circa 1935-1945 — without the gas chambers.

The number of Jews fleeing from France is increasing by the tens of thousands yearly and emigrating to Israel because of also the sharp increase in violence toward the Jewish people by radical groups.

One person said that optimistic Jews stayed in Germany during the Nazi era figuring things would get better. Pessimistic Jews took the earliest boats out of Germany while they could. Only those who could afford to move themselves and their families escaped; the poor had no other choice but to remain and hope and pray things would get better.

Let’s hope and pray the same situation doesn’t happen in France for the poor.

I hope that when these Jews settle in Israel they remember why they left France and join with the majority of Jews living in Israel and fight to stop the bloodshed between Israelis and the Palestinians living on their border. Treatment of Palestinians isn’t much better than what happened in World War II to the Jews.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that these more recent immigrants will, along with the Jews currently in Israel, elect new leaders who will work for the people of Israel and Palestine and settle this too-long dispute.

Frank D. Slason

Somerville

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