France’s Sudden “Compassion” for Gazans
Where Was That After the Holocaust?
On July 11, 2025, France’s National Court of Asylum (CNDA) ruled that Israel’s military operations in Gaza constitute “persecution” — and therefore, residents of Gaza have now been granted refugee status under the 1951 Geneva Convention.
Let that sink in.
At a time when Hamas remains committed to Israel’s destruction, and large portions of Gazan society support an ideology openly calling for the eradication of the Jewish state, France — a country with a long history of antisemitism — has now opened its arms to those very people.
But here's the real question:
Where was this compassion when the Jews needed it?
🔁 Post-Holocaust: Jews Were Denied, Rejected, Pushed Aside
In 1945, as the crematoria of Auschwitz still smouldered and survivors stumbled out of Europe’s killing fields, France and most of Europe slammed the door shut.
France had actively collaborated with Nazi Germany through the Vichy regime — deporting 76,000 Jews, including children, to their deaths. After the war, one might expect an outpouring of mercy. A wave of compassion. A moral reckoning.
Instead? Bureaucratic indifference. Antisemitic suspicion. Doors closed.
The uncomfortable truth is that European powers didn’t want the Jews back. They were "someone else’s problem." And so, rather than offer Jews refuge in Europe, the Western world — France included — endorsed a different solution: send the Jews to Palestine.
The Irony: From "Jewish Homeland" to "How Dare Jews Be There"
It gets better — or worse, depending on your moral compass.
The land of Palestine was partitioned by the United Nations in 1947, with France voting in favor, to create a Jewish state precisely because Europe didn’t want to grant Jews sanctuary themselves. The idea was simple: "We won’t take them, so let them govern themselves elsewhere."
Now, fast forward 75 years.
The very people — the Palestinians — who rejected the 1947 partition plan, who have spent decades attacking the existence of a Jewish state, and whose political leadership has enshrined the destruction of Israel as a core goal, are now being welcomed by France with open arms.
Make it make sense.
Many of those identifying as “Palestinian refugees” are actually descendants of earlier waves of migrants from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. According to UNRWA data, over 60% of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere descend from families that were displaced or migrated from other Arab countries, many during the 1940s and 1950s. Yet they are treated as the original indigenous population.
And now France is offering legal refuge to this population — some of whom cheered the October 7 massacre, many of whom are raised in a society that denies the Holocaust and glorifies martyrdom — while it refused the very same protection to Jews fleeing genocide.
Is it irony? Or is it simply anti-Semitism in a progressive suit?
⚖️ The Ongoing Double Standard
Let’s recap:
In 1945, Jews — the victims of a genocide — were offered no refuge by France.
In 2025, Palestinians — whose political leaders declare their intent to eliminate Israel — are given refugee status.
France has moved from deporting Jews, to ignoring Jews, to protecting those who want to kill Jews — all while insisting it is standing on the side of human rights.
The moral incoherence is staggering.
🇫🇷 France’s Historical Pattern
Let’s not pretend this is some aberration in France’s moral history:
1182: Jews expelled by King Philip II.
1306: Expelled again under Philip IV.
1394: Final expulsion by Charles VI.
1942: Rounded up and handed to the Nazis by French police.
2025: Offers asylum to the ideological heirs of those calling for another Final Solution — this time, in the name of Palestinian “resistance.”
Some things change. Others just rebrand.
What This Really Tells Us
This isn’t about humanitarianism. It’s not about rights or justice. It’s about optics. It’s about virtue signaling. And it’s about political hostility to Jewish sovereignty — plain and simple.
Jews didn’t get refuge after the Holocaust — because Israel was their “solution.”
Now, the descendants of those who want to destroy that solution are being granted refuge.
So yes, this is about anti-Semitism.
Only now, it wears a French judicial robe and speaks the language of “international law.”
How Europe, and particularly countries like France and the UK are so willing and seemingly enthusiastic to be entirely complicit in their own downfall is beyond me.
Suicidal compassion. They will have to flee their own country soon enough. Then they will get it. Hamas leaders will not share power with the leaders of France and their laws will become the law of the land. The constitution will become irrelevant.