Not long ago, it was reported in the media that a Jewish boy, son of a prominent French rabbi, was assaulted in a Paris train station by an anti-Semitic youth. The story was touted as proof that French Jews live in constant danger, particularly from their Muslim neighbors. President Nicolas Sarkozy was compelled to apologize publicly to the Jewish community, and promised that there would be no more such incidents. France is home to about eight million Muslims and only half a million Jews. According to the media, anti-Semitic incidents in France rose between 2008 and 2009 by 75% - from 475 to 832.

However, Rabbi Yirmiyahu Menachem Cohen, chief rabbi of Paris for the last four years, declared in an interview with the Brooklyn-based Yiddish newspaper Der Blatt that these stories were completely unfounded. He personally spoke with the rabbi whose son was supposedly beaten, and learned that the "anti-Semitic assault" was nothing more than a brush with a drunken man, which left his son without a single scratch.

Furthermore, Rabbi Cohen said he has never encountered any anti-Semitic violence in France. He uses the subway system every day without incident. Paris is home to a community of about 200,000 Jews, of whom about 200 pray in Rabbi Cohen's synagogue. Rabbi Cohen believes that the rumors about rising anti-Semitism in France were deliberately spread by pro-Israeli media outlets, in the hopes of spurring more Jews to leave France and settle in the State of Israel.

According to Rabbi Cohen, most of the Jews in Paris are of Sephardic descent, and, ironically, many of them are former Israelis who left behind the Zionist "paradise" to seek a better life in France.

Rabbi Yoel Klein, spokesman for Jewish Response, remarked that the word anti-Semitism is not really an accurate term for hatred of Jews. Actually, Semites include many non-Jewish peoples as well: all those descended from Shem, son of Noah, comprising about one-third of the world. Arabs, who trace their ancestry to Ishmael, son of Abraham, are certainly Semites. Similarly, the descendents of Esau, brother of the patriarch Jacob, are Semites. According to Jewish tradition, Esau's descendents today, the Edomites, are the Italians living in and around Rome.

Historically, Jews never had a war against Ishmael, and during the Jewish exile, violence against Jews was almost non-existent in the Muslim lands. For two thousand years, the Arab countries were a safe haven and shelter for Jews. Similarly, Italians have no history of hating Jews. As early as Talmudic times, the Babylonian rabbis expressed their preference to live under Esau's empire (Rome) - see Talmud, Gittin 17a. It was Germany, known in Hebrew as Ashkenaz, one of the sons of Japheth, Noah's other son, which perpetrated the Holocaust. Germany's ally, Italy, played no role.

However, Rabbi Klein continued, the word anti-Semitism may indeed be a good description of the propaganda being spread today regarding French Jewry. Those who claim that Muslims hate Jews and that French Jews are in danger are really attacking all Semites - both Muslim and Jewish Semites. They are unjustly accusing the Muslims of persecuting their Jewish neighbors, and they are frightening Jews into moving to the State of Israel - where they will certainly be in truly great danger.

This is part of a long-term Zionist scheme to empty out the world of its Jews, and bring them all to the State of Israel. To this end, Zionists seek to provoke agitation and anti-Semitism in every land where Jews live. The Zionist founder Theodor Herzl was the first to put this plan into writing: "It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . . this will assist in realization of our plans. . The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends (Diary, Part I, pp. 16).

In the 1920's, the Zionists began writing that Jews have no place in Germany. Although this was not the position of the majority of German Jews, who opposed Zionism and were loyal Germans, the media gave the Zionist view great publicity, influencing Nazi ideology and policy.

After World War II, the Zionists targeted the surviving Jews of Europe for immigration. They intervened in America to make sure these Jews had nowhere to go but Palestine.

After establishing their state in 1948, they set their sights on Sephardic Jewry - the Jews living in Arab countries. They fooled some of them, such as the Yemenite Jews, into leaving their homes by encouraging the belief that the age of the messiah had arrived. Others, such as Iraqis Jews, were frightened into fleeing their homelands by bombs secretly placed by Zionist agents in the synagogues. Today, almost no Jews remain in Arab lands where there were once millions.

In the 1970's, the Zionists began to target Russian Jewry. In the decades that followed, more than a million Russian Jews settled in the State of Israel.

Starting ten years ago, the Zionists saw that it did not serve their political interests to have Jews in France, so they decided to burn a fire under their feet to get them to leave. The Zionists need their intelligence, their property and their blood to contribute to the their war against the Arabs. Ariel Sharon made a special trip to France to convince French Jewry to come to the State of Israel. Fortunately, his efforts did not bear fruit; Jews stayed put in France.

America is their next target. They know American Jews are comfortable now, but they hope for a wave of anti-Semitism that will sent us running to their doorstep. Yishai Fleisher, a talk show host at Israel National Radio and co-founder of pro-immigration organization Kumah, said so explicitly: "The next major frontier in aliyah (immigration to the State of Israel) is North America and the western countries like England and France... Western aliyah is up and it will continue to rise because of the great fuel of aliyah in England and France, anti-Semitism. Meanwhile, in North America, ideological and religious aliyah is what we can expect, unless some unexpected anti-Semitic wave hits the region." Indeed, Zionist strategy has not changed since Herzl.

In contrast to G-d's plan to spread Jews all over the world for their survival (Talmud, Pesachim 87b), the Zionists wish to bring them all to one place, where they can all be attacked at once, G-d forbid. Thus they are doing the anti-Semites' work for them. The Jewish people must wake up to see the cancer that is growing on its body.

The body fights off most diseases using antibodies developed from previous exposure or from vaccines. The body has been trained to recognize its enemies and fight them off. However, cancer is much more dangerous because the body doesn't recognize it as an enemy and cannot fight. Identifying one's enemy is the first step toward victory. May G-d help Jews to open their eyes and see who their enemy is.

Judaism teaches respect for all monotheistic religions, and especially for Muslims, who are descended from Abraham, ancestor of the Jews. The Torah says that when Abraham was forced to send away his elder son Ishmael, lest he influence Isaac to worship idols, G-d told him, "Do not worry about the boy, for those among Isaac will be considered your descendents. And also the son of the handmaid (Ishmael) I will make a people, for they are your descendents" (Genesis 21:12-13). G-d promised Abraham that although at present Ishmael was guilty of misconduct and could not be allowed to influence Isaac, his descendents would one day repent and believe in one G-d. Then they would deserve to be called a people, bearers of the legacy of Abraham. This prophecy was fulfilled with the advent of Islam.

Furthermore, Abraham did not actually forsake Ishmael; our Sages say that he visited him often and taught him the tradition of welcoming guests. To this day, Arabs are known for going to great lengths to welcome and protect their guests. The Arab world is greatly respected in Jewish tradition and religion.

On the other hand, just because a Jew is descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob does not entitle him to call himself a Jew. Judaism is not racism, granting preferred status to Jews simply because of their lineage. A Jew must be worthy of the name. The founders and leaders of the Zionist movement, who were atheists and deniers of the Torah, are not true Jews. This is why the Torah says, "For those among Isaac will be considered your descendents" - not all of Isaac's descendents, only some of them, those who have clung to Judaism throughout the generations.

The Book of Psalms (50:20) says, "You speak against your brother; of your mother's son you speak evil." The Midrash (Devarim Rabbah 6:9 and Tanchuma Pekudei 7) interprets "your brother" to refer to the nations most closely related to the Jewish people, the Ishmaelites and the Edomites. "Your mother's son" refers to Jews. Thus we are forbidden to speak badly of them just as we are forbidden to speak badly of other Jews.

"Jews aspire to live in peace with their neighbors in France and everywhere else," concluded Rabbi Klein. "We deplore those who spread false rumors with the intent of sowing hatred between Jews and Muslims. Our message to these evil conspirers is: you will not have the last laugh on the day when G-d's kingdom will prevail, as the Torah says, 'For He will avenge the blood of His servants and exact vengeance on His enemies' (Deuteronomy 32:43). Let us hope that whoever reads this wakeup warning will survive this evil plot, and may our eyes behold His return to Zion with mercy."

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