More than one in six (17%) young people in France, under the age of 35, believes that it would be good for the nation if some Jewish people emigrated, compared to 12% of the general French population that thought France would benefit from Jews departing.
That’s according to a survey commissioned by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France, which noted that the overall number (12%) represented a 100% increase over 2020 when 6% of the general population said France would be better off if some Jews left.
The survey was conducted a year after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. It found that 46% of the French populace harbored at least six of the 16 antisemitic prejudices about which respondents were asked.
The most common antisemitic belief, the survey found, is that “Jews are very close-knit among themselves. They are more attached to Israel than to France, and they have powerful lobbies that intervene at the highest level.”
Brice Teinturier, the CEO of Ipsos, which conducted this survey, stated that “almost a quarter of those surveyed think that Jews are not really French like the others, up 6 points” from 2020, per an English translation of the survey.
“The Palestinian cause becomes a license to hate,” stated Yonathan Arfi, president of the council.
