Thread: Jewish group asks France to rename 'Death to Jews' hamlet

Lobbyists tried unsuccessfully to get La Mort aux Juifs renamed twenty years ago


A prominent Jewish group, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has asked the French government to rename a small village in central France that is currently called 'Death to Jews' ('La Mort aux Juifs').

The centre's director wrote to France's interior minister to request the removal of "this genocidal name".

In his letter, Shimon Samuels suggested the hamlet's name dated as far back as the 11th Century.

But local officials in the hamlet have dismissed any concerns over the name.

The hamlet comes under the jurisdiction of the village of Courtemaux, located some 100km (60 miles) south of Paris.


'Under the radar'

The director of the US-based Jewish organisation expressed shock at discovering "the existence of a village in France officially named 'La Mort aux Juifs", in a letter to Interior Minister Bernard Cazenave.

"It is extremely shocking that this name has slipped under the radar in the 70 years that have passed since France was liberated from Nazism and the (pro-Nazi) Vichy regime," Mr Samuels wrote




The Simon Wiesenthal Centre is a global Jewish human rights organisation


Requesting the name change, Mr Samuels said "the current surge in public and violent expressions of anti-Semitism makes us uneasy regarding the motives of those seeking to reside at such an address".

He said the name could have been in existence since the Crusader pogroms that led to the expulsion of France's Jews in 1306.

But the deputy mayor of Courtemaux, Marie-Elizabeth Secretand, appeared to downplay any concerns over the name, telling Agence France-Presse news agency: "It's ridiculous. This name has always existed."

"No one has anything against the Jews, of course. It doesn't surprise me that this is coming up again," she added.

It is not the first time the hamlet has come under the spotlight. An anti-racism group lobbied the government to get the name changed in 1992 but was unsuccessful, AFP reports.

France has one of Europe's largest Jewish communities, totalling about 500,000.

But it has seen a rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents, spurred on by the recent flare up of the Israel-Gaza conflict





BBC News - Jewish group asks France to rename 'Death to Jews' hamlet

Is there a Mosque there?

I suppose they'll be wanting to change the name of Die Jewpig, Die village next.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Simon Wiesenthal Centre should get together with some other French people and come up with an alternative name before they complain

La Mort aux Gaza?

They should change the name really. They would not allow it if it was called La Mort aux Nègre.

Here are the most racist place names in America:

#1.) Jewtown: That’s a town in Georgia that was originally settled by freed slaves. There’s also Hebe Canyon, Utah.

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#7.) Polack: There are six of them, including Polack Lake, Michigan.

#8.) Gypsy: There are 58, including Gypsy, West Virginia.

#9.) Injun: It’s still used in the names of eight places, including the Injun Creek Trail in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Don't think they are particularly racist really.

"It is extremely shocking that this name has slipped under the radar in the 70 years that have passed since France was liberated from Nazism and the (pro-Nazi) Vichy regime," Mr Samuels wrote

Twat. It has been, according to one of his collaborators, there for at least 1000 years. Long before the whingers came along.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

They should change the name really. They would not allow it if it was called La Mort aux Nègre.

They're French, they could well.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

"It is extremely shocking that this name has slipped under the radar in the 70 years that have passed since France was liberated from Nazism and the (pro-Nazi) Vichy regime," Mr Samuels wrote

Twat. It has been, according to one of his collaborators, there for at least 1000 years. Long before the whingers came along.

It is all part of the crack down on people expressing distaste in israels actions in gaza. Always happens when their is a popular backlash against them, the lobbyists go into overdrive labeling everyone and everything in the world antisemite to scare people off.

I wonder how many Jews have been killed in the village in the last 100 years?

Twinned with this place, apparently. Wankers Corner, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Funny? If one looks it is a hamlet. But more really a farm on both sides of the road, which is very narrow. I could not find a name sign.

Best for all if it were simply left along and forgotten.

Typical Jew whiners.

There is a place in Spain with the same (or similar) name and got it's name after it became a stopping point on a Jewish migration trail during one of the Spanish pograms. This one probably has similar connections.
It's history.
If the Jews wan't it changed, tell them sure, right after you put a shopping mall where auschwitz is and bulldoze any of the other camps.

https://www.google.co.th/webhp?sourc...fe=off&tbm=nws

It's simply is just part of the zionist lobby fight back against world opinion shifting away from the historic "See no evil" approach to Palestine.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

https://www.google.co.th/webhp?sourc...fe=off&tbm=nws

Israel needs antisemitism. It is the glue that holds their nation together, the us vs. them factor. All pull together lads!

If everyone started to like Israel, approved of its policies, if they lived in harmony with their neighbors the population would start to look inward instead of outward and risk having different groups within with different ideas.

the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has asked the French government to rename a small village in central France that is currently called 'Death to Jews'

seems like a reasonable request, TBH.

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

the deputy mayor of Courtemaux, Marie-Elizabeth Secretand, appeared to downplay any concerns over the name, telling Agence France-Presse news agency: "It's ridiculous. This name has always existed." "No one has anything against the Jews, of course.

of course not....just because the town is named "death to jews"......why would anyone assume that someone has anything against jews?

I think it should be called "Feck off you big nosed Heebs twinned with Basingstoke".

The Israel propaganda machine is in full swing, looking for victim stories around the world, to confirm their victim status.
On My Facebook account I have 3 Jewish friends, and they pass on these Zionist views and share them.
Nobody comments or presses like.
They don't even realise that they are on ignore.
But nobody will tell them that, because that would be called homophobic, racist, capitalist, communist, it is worse than that, that bad word, nobody wants to called that.

they're like a plague on the planet. selfish controlling greedy mu fu'ers.

Originally Posted by Necron99

right after you put a shopping mall where auschwitz is and bulldoze any of the other camps.

yes but they do make money out of these places, already.