Friday, April 30, 2010

Echo from France: Sound familiar?

“Your coming to power is undoubtedly a historic event. For the first time this old Gallo-Roman country will be governed by a Jew. I dare say out loud what the country is thinking, deep inside: it is preferable for this country to be led by a man whose origins belong to his soil… than by a cunning talmudist.”

—A member of the French parliament following Leon Blum’s election as prime minister in 1936.

(Of course Blum really was a socialist.)