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ago, another French-born and Frenchbased jihadi was involved in the massacre at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

More violence occurs on an almost daily basis, according to Samuel Ghozlan, a retired police commissioner who founded BNVCA, an antisemitism monitoring organisation. Jews are also worried by the rise of the far right National Front (who won one third of the French seats at the European Parliament last month), even if its current leader, Marine Le Pen, is eager to distance herself from her father JeanMarie Le Pen’s antisemitic rhetoric.

Even more ominously, a new brand of explicit, “national-socialist” antisemitism is now very much in fashion among French youths of both European and non-European origin.

Quite tellingly, its main leader is a French-Cameroonian performer, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, the creator of the “quenelle”, an inverted Nazi salute.

“All of sudden, we realised there might literally be no future for us,” a young Parisian couple say. They will move to Tel Aviv in August.

Chief Rabbi Korsia, who, as a young army chaplain, developed a personal friendship with the then president Jacques Chirac, is convinced the FrenchJewish symbiosis initiated under Napoleon will endure. As a rule, Chief Rabbis do not have much religious or political influence on French Jewry — except in times of crisis. That may turn out to be the case with Rabbi Korsia. Michel Gurfinkiel is the founder and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, a conservative think-thank in France