Sacre Who? French Shocked to Find Gazan Refugees ‘Anti-Semitic’

Well, whoda thunk?

The French love nothing more than burnishing their hallucinatory self-image as crusading do-gooders and the calm, rational voice in any international conflict.

So it should come as no surprise that France would step into some sort of role in the aftermath of the horrific October 7th Hamas attacks in Israel, especially once Israel went on the offensive against the butchering terrorist organization in their Gaza stronghold. It’s also not very surprising that a European nation which is fast approaching nearly 10% of its population being Muslim, with Islam now the second largest religion in the country, would advocate consistently for the Jewish state to moderate their response, as opposed to full-throated endorsement of wiping the Jew-hating, bloodthirty vermin from the face of the earth forever.

It’s also no shocker that the French would seek to get their own folks out of the warzone that Gaza – thanks again to Hamas – quickly became. But leave it to the French to add their own peculiar twist – bringing Palestinians out of Gaza to live in France.

…The effort is part of France’s campaign since the war started 18 months ago to evacuate French nationals, Palestinians working for France and their relatives, and Palestinians with links to France. The Gazans were evacuated for health and humanitarian reasons, says the official.

The number of Palestinians requesting to get out of Dodge was smallish at first, but has increased over the past year.

The number of asylum applications from Palestinians is rising sharply in France, although they remain marginal compared to the overall volume of applications for protection (142,000 in 2023).         

In the first eight months of the year, some 190 Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank sought protection in France. There were 67 in 2023, 31 in 2022, and 30 in 2021, according to data from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA).          

These applications do not necessarily come from Palestinians who fled after October 7, 2023, the day of the Hamas attack on Israel, for a variety of reasons. However, since the Israeli military operation began, “applicants have increasingly regularly invoked the worsening security situation in the Palestinian territories, first and foremost in Gaza,” OFPRA highlighted in its 2023 report.

And altogether, it has been about 500 or so at last count.

…France has helped more than 500 people leave Gaza since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out following the 7 October 2023 attacks.

Well. Make that 499 as there seems to have been a rotten apple in the barrel and suddenly, everyone is shocked there is gambling at this establishment…if you get my drift.

French authorities have suspended all evacuations from Gaza on Friday following revelations that a Palestinian student granted entry to France is under investigation for antisemitic content posted on her social media.

A criminal inquiry has been launched against 25-year-old Nour A, a Gaza native who arrived in the country in early July and was set to begin a master’s degree at Sciences Po Lille in the northern French city this autumn.

…The controversy erupted after screenshots circulated online allegedly linking Nour A to a now-deleted X account containing extreme content.

The posts allegedly included calls for the extermination of Jewish people and videos praising World War II Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler.

Barrot acknowledged failures in the screening process that allowed her entry. “The security checks, carried out by the French services and Israeli authorities, did not detect the antisemitic content,” he said.

This ruins all the delightful Nour A’s plans for getting her master’s courtesy of the French taxpayer, even the Jewish ones. It has also now made it more difficult for Palestinians hoping to get out of Gaza and those already in France, because they are reportedly going to be rescrutinized for anything resembling views like Nour A’s. All because the young anti-semite wasn’t clever enough to nuke her ‘Kill all the Jews’ accounts before she got to France, like I’m sure most everyone else did.

…The woman, who arrived in France in July, was due to start attending classes at Sciences Po Lille university in the autumn.

She has since been deregistered, the university has said.

France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wrote on X that he had requested for the account to be closed, legal action to be taken. “Hamas propagandists have no place in our country,” he added.

Palestinians already in France through this scheme will be “subject to a new check” following “failures that brought this young woman here”, Mr Barrot added.

He said that security checks carried out by state services and Israeli authorities did not detect these “unacceptable and concerning remarks”.

Sciences Po Lille university confirmed the woman’s comments to AFP and told the news agency that the posts were “in direct contradiction with the values upheld” by the institution.

The woman was part of a group evacuated from Gaza as part of a programme run by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the director of Sciences Po Lille told French newspaper Libération.

And, yes, yes – everyone knows hating Jews is ‘in direct contradiction’ of French values.

That’s why these media posts were such a shock. The French had never seen them from a Palestinian before.

That’s the only reason why I can think of why Macron declared he was going to recognise a Palestinian state where one does not exist and never has. 

You know – besides the power trip.

France will officially recognise a Palestinian state in September, President Emmanuel Macron has said, which will make it the first G7 nation to do so.

In a post on X, Macron said the formal announcement would be made at a session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“The urgent need today is for the war in Gaza to end and for the civilian population to be rescued. Peace is possible. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,” he wrote.

Palestinian officials welcomed Macron’s decision, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move “rewards terror” following Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack in Israel.

…In his Thursday post on X, Macron wrote: “True to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognise the State of Palestine.

I think his wife needs to smack him again, and hard this time. No smush in the mush – bust him in the chops, girlfriend.

Speaking of busting Macron’s mealy-mouthed chops, Dutch politician Geert Wilders didn’t have any problem doing it.

Here will be the new Palestinian State.

Big parts of France are already islamic anyway.

Good luck @EmmanuelMacron and France! Happy suicide!

The Netherlands will close its borders immediately. pic.twitter.com/zRUYxhUOj5

— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) July 25, 2025

And then he offered unconditional support for the fight against the barbarians.

Never compromise with evil. Destroy Hamas completely and ignore the useful idiots of the EU. Hamas is responsible for the famine and hell in Gaza, and no one else. If they want peace, they should surrender and free the hostages.

Stay strong #Israel millions of us support you! 💪

— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) July 29, 2025

Meanwhile, the French are just trying to recover from the horrible shock.

Outrage in France as Nour Attalah, a Gazan refugee who arrived last month on a scholarship based on “academic excellence,” is exposed for old posts praising Hitler, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and calling for the murder of all hostages in Gaza.

She even reposted content… pic.twitter.com/Ufe0PUIaKK

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) August 1, 2025

…She even reposted content glorifying the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack for criticizing Prophet Mohammed, and claimed Muslims should not partake in ‘Christian activities.’ People in France are shocked to learn how radicalized Gazans are. 

Now, just two weeks after declaring that all Gazans are eligible for asylum, France is suspending its program to receive refugees from Gaza. And Nour must leave France.

Not just Jews, but Charlie Hebdo, too?

Man. If more French people remembered what that was about, they might really be pissed and stop all the inbound ‘refugee and stateless persons’ for good.

Then again, I”d be shocked if they did.

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