Israel prefers right wing over radical Islam in Europe
The shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels coupled with the rise of the extreme right in recent EU elections brings the “new anti-Semitism” into Israeli public discourse, though the context of these two events might hide another reality.
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![Some of 200 French Jews queue at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport before emigrating to Israel July 28, 2004. Some 2,500 Jews leave France for Israel each year but Wednesday's departure comes less than two weeks after [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon] sparked a controversial call on French Jews to emigrate to Israel to escape what he called the 'wildest anti-Semitism'. Sign at rear reads: "I have two loves: Jerusalem and Paris". ??? NOTE: Some of the people in background may have been accompanying rel](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTXMSYC.jpg/RTXMSYC.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=bTGegQyp)
