Who To Believe? France Or Those Lying Jews?

Je tiens à dire clairement qu'il n'y a pas de poussée d'antisémitisme en France, que rien ne permet d'étayer ces affirmations.
[I make a point of saying clearly, there is no surge of anti-semitism in France, that nothing supports these assertions.]
Jack,president of Jew-friendly France,explaining why news reports, police blotters, and French Jews cannot be believed

February 27, 2002 (People's Daily Online)

By the end of the year France saw a rise in anti-Semitic violence and threats from 219 in 2001 to 936 in 2002. Imagine had there been a surge.
Non, la France n'est pas un pays antisémite. ...

La France n'accepte pas l'antisémitisme ;

elle le combat. Mais elle n'accepte pas non plus les accusations qui touchent à son honneur.
[No, France is not an anti-Semitic country. ... France does not accept anti-Semiticism; she fights it. But neither does she accept charges that wound her honor.]
Jack,president of anti-Semite-free France,explaining how France while battling French anti-Semitism non-stop,as a point of honor, cannot acknowledge claims of anti-Semiticsm in France

PALAIS DE L'ÉLYSEE February 13, 2004 (Élysée/Yedioth Aharonoth)
The French head of state insists that France is not anti-Semtic.*

France is a super special place where problems just melt away. Or go away.

So what's with these sensitive plants, the Jews?
FRENCH JEWS FEEL 'PANDEMIC OF ANTI-SEMITISM'
TEL AVIV February 12, 2007 (AFP) -

The archbishop of Paris and head of the Roman Catholic Church in France, Andre Vingt-Trois, said Monday that French Jews feel they are enduring a "pandemic of anti-Semitism" on his first visit to Israel.

"The Jewish community feel they are living through a pandemic of anti-Semitism,"

he told AFP, clarifying comments made earlier at a news conference in Tel Aviv with Israeli Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog.
"It is a feeling felt by the Jewish community," he added.
A feeling felt. And a good deal more, your Holiness.
To grasp what France does not about the nature of French anti-Semitism, we recommend revisiting Christopher Caldwell's June 2002 article, Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie.
What is surprising and confusing in all of this is that the "new antisemitism" in France is a phenomenon of the left. It has practically nothing to do with Le Pen.

In fact, its most dangerous practitioners are to be found among the very crowds that thronged the streets to protest him.
... "Traditionally," Alain Finkielkraut wrote in the Jewish monthly L’Arche, "antisemites are those French who worship their identity and love one another against the Jews.

Contemporary antisemitism involves French people who don’t like themselves, who have a post-national perspective, who are shedding their 'Frenchness', the better to identify with the poor of the world.

They use Israel to place the Jews in the camp of the oppressors. You have a sort of league between antisemitic Islamism and self-disparagement."
... Elisabeth Schemla, a longtime editor at France’s centre-left opinion weekly Le Nouvel Observateur says, "The antisemitism of the left is more dangerous than that of the right.

They have power in the media, the universities, the associations, the political class."
Worth the full read.
Then there is this telling anecdote from Carole Raphaelle Davis:
Sadly, but not surprisingly, if one speaks in support of Israel at French dinner parties, one is shouted down.

Even at my own dinner table, when I told a guest of my fears about living in Paris in such a climate of anti-Semitism, he insisted,

"There is no anti-Semitism in France, don’t be ridiculous."

When I told him about everything I had read about the rising tide of anti-Jewish hatred, he told me I was being "influenced by the Jew lobby" and that whatever I was reading was "Jewish propaganda."
When I told him that among other papers, I was reading The New York Times, he said, "You know, The New York Times is a Jewish paper and Jews control all the media."
He said it with a smile, even knowing that I am a Jew. What made his comments especially chilling is that he is on the Catholic Board of Education of Paris.**
No anti-Semites on the Catholic Board of Education of Paris. And as goes the board of ed, so goes another French generation of anti-Semites.

* Elsewhere Jack seriously argued that reports of French anti-Semiticism are a Jewish media plot (ninth item). It's those crazy Jews!

** Which puts us in mind of another Frenchman pronouncing at another dinner party

Via Pave France