Is the President of the CRIF Blind??
Is the President of the CRIF blind, that he encourages Jews to stay in France???? Jabotinsky, my master, had, like all the founding fathers of Zionism, studied the nagging question of anti-Semitism, the "longest hatred".…
Assessment
The question of whether the CRIF president is blind for urging Jews to remain in France cuts to a deep tension between communal optimism and historical Zionist analysis. The reference to Jabotinsky's distinction between two forms of antisemitism frames this as an ideological disagreement, not a factual one. The stakes are whether French Jewish institutions are offering a realistic diagnosis or wishful reassurance. Watch whether internal Jewish debate sharpens over emigration versus staying.