Pike News in the Population Authority: Migrant Workers or Dream Realizers?

Lily Derry, who immigrated from France at the age of 15, protests against all those interested in trying to prove that French immigrants are not Jews. She refuses to allow the various bodies to make a profit on her back and her shoulder

Immigrants from France, the realizers of the Zionist dream (Photo: Noam Moskowitz)

Immigrants from France at Studio Etzion, January 2015 (Photo: Noam Moskowitz)

Truthfully, I was offended. I couldn't believe that anyone hired thought that there was any logic in the following sentence: 83% of French immigrants are not Jews. That's how it was posted on various media networks yesterday. You know us. And even laughing at our laid-back domes along with the bathing suit, for having trained dozens of restaurants in Tel Aviv, and renovating several synagogues. Recognize our over-patriotism, excessive Zionism. I hope - I hope - the winning combination of Eastern tradition and European chic.

So how could everyone be in the trash? How did a government official release a statistic so far-fetched? How did the Home Office not understand about the first second that there was something illogical here? How does a communications body allow this news to be spent hours on its homepage? How can professional journalists ignore the clarification message issued by the Interior Ministry, and continue to discuss the Pike News as if it were really pure, despite the Jewish Agency press release stating that 97% of French immigrants are Jewish?

There are a few answers to these questions, but first a basic one: French, not Jewish, may occasionally dream of relocation. Maybe. What is certain is that Israel is not one of his dream destinations. Because come on, our beaches are amazing, not boring here for a moment, Tel Aviv Ya Tel Aviv, but even a Frenchman who enjoys the most generous social policy in Europe, from a 35-hour work week, from the culture and beauty that France offers, will not leave all this good for just a few hours More sunshine a year.

Whoever does this - the Jews - choose the land of Israel because they want to write the story of the Jewish people here. Because they want to take part in the most fascinating chapter ever written in the history of humanity. Because they want to live as Jews in their ancestral land. Because they want to put on a restless dome without getting stuck in their hatreds. Because they want to walk the street in Chanukah and see lighted menorahs - and not just fir trees. It comes down to these people we salute. Not that we doubt their motivations.

Who benefits from the crime?

And as to the motivations of those who published this mighty Pike News, I would quote a French coin: "Who benefits from the crime?" And here, the answer is clear: Those who benefit from all kinds of reform organizations who want to prove that the State of Israel must recognize their conversions. Earn all kinds of activists for asylum seekers / infiltrators who want to prove that the State of Israel is a racist state: it "imports" tens of thousands of "white gentiles" every year, so what really bothers them in the tens of thousands of Sudanese and Eritreans? Certain journalists earn for whom the Law of Return is the mother of all sin. The UN resolution stating that Zionism is racism is still valid for them, apparently.

What is certain is that since yesterday, the spirits of French immigrants have been raging. And not just. Because someone claimed they were actually migrant workers. Well, they don't. They are the fulfillment of the Zionist dream. They don't deserve this pike news. And it would be good for our representatives and politicians to act if they made it clear to them that the State of Israel is proud of them.