Are U.S. Jews Really Making German Citizenship “Plan B” ??
By Jim Buckley
It’s sometimes tough enough to voice one’s support of President Trump in certain circles here in the U.S. but imagine what a MAGA-friendly French citizen must go through in the face of the never-ending flood of anti-Trump “news” spewing forth from nearly all French media outlets.
For example, a recent feature article that appeared in the online news magazine France 24 caught my eye with this teaser: “Their families fled the Nazis. Facing Trump, US Jews making Germany ‘Plan B.’”
Knowing of the love President Trump has for the Jewish people, I cringed to read the following: “Germany is making it easier for the descendants of victims of Nazism to obtain German citizenship, and an increasing number of American Jews are applying. While some are seeking citizenship for practical reasons or as a form of reparation, others see it as a way to escape an increasingly anti-Semitic America under US President Donald Trump.”
Admittedly, this was a stand-alone article written by staff writer Stephanie Trouillard, and it doesn’t necessarily represent the position of France 24, but her level of ignorance does reflect the political thinking of most of not only France 24’s journalists and editors, but also that of nearly all EU correspondents, most of whom lean decidedly left.
Ms. Trouillard claims that “More and more American Jews are making the decision to seek German citizenship in response to the rise of anti-Semitism in US President Donald Trump's America [emphasis mine].”
As a U.S. citizen who is more than happy – elated actually – that Donald Trump is President of the U.S.A., I have felt the full effect of his refreshing presence as the leader of our country. I am pleased that many of the 10 million border-crossing hordes who’ve filled our schools, hospitals, hotels (for free), streets, and jails, are either “self-deporting” and/or being repatriated.
It's not likely that Ms. Trouillard has spoken to anyone who feels that way or would disagree with the premise of her piece.
She apparently gets her “information,” such as it is, from sources like NPR and CNN. I don’t know if she’s ever been in the U.S., but I can only surmise that she is thrilled to witness the demise of her own cultural heritage as her beautiful country is taken over by groups of “immigrants” who bear no loyalty, connection, gratitude, or interest in preserving that legacy.
Here’s more from Ms. Trouillard: “Joe Sacks, a high school science teacher in Washington, DC, has begun the process of obtaining German citizenship. He is one of hundreds of Jewish Americans looking to reclaim German nationality after their families fled the Nazis. "You click ‘Yes, I'm Jewish’ on the German form and send it to the German government,” he told NPR in an interview last month. “It's wild.”
Trouillard writes that many Jewish-Americans now feel they are going to need a “Plan B” because “Trump’s attempts to demonize and scapegoat segments of the population – notably immigrants, “elite” institutions like universities as well as the media – “are uncomfortable echoes of 1930s prewar Germany.” She laments that “more than one former Trump adviser has publicly made a Nazi salute” (who those jackbooted heel snappers are she doesn’t say, but you and I know it’s bullshit; President Trump is one of the most strident supporters of Jews and the State of Israel in the world).
Trouillard points to “the squelching of speech,” and academic institutions being compromised. “The signs are there; It’s happening,” she writes without any acknowledgement that it is those vaunted “academic institutions” that regularly squelch the speech of anyone who disagrees with their left-wing policies. She claims the United States is “experiencing a surge in hate crime and xenophobic speech,” without referencing where those “hate” crimes emanate from: left-wing agitators such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, et al.
She quotes Eric Podietz, “a retired, Philadelphia-based IT consultant who has applied for German citizenship, who tells NPR that, "This rise of authoritarianism just parallels the rise of Hitler.”
Podietz isn’t planning to move yet, “but is increasingly worried by the political rhetoric in the United States that he says harks back to that heard in Germany before his family was forced to flee.”
That may be true, but that “rhetoric” is regurgitated by legions of left-wing college students and Democrat politicians and their followers, not from boogeyman “right-wing” MAGA supporter or President Trump.
Last year, according to Trouillard, “82 Holocaust survivors, along with their children and grandchildren, became German citizens.” She quotes the then German consul general David Gill, who claims, "We’ve seen an upward trend since 2017, when Donald Trump [first] became president.”
Steve North made the decision to apply for German citizenship in 2020 out of fear that Trump would be re-elected. North, a writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency isn’t planning on leaving the United States just yet, but “he is keeping his options open.”
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This is what we’re fighting: journalists such as Trouillard and thousands just like her, whose only media contacts in the U.S. are NPR, CNN, presumably MSNBC, and perhaps The Washington Post, and The New York Times, all dedicated anti-Trumpers
They seem oblivious to the fact that Donald Trump is Israel’s strongest supporter, that his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism and she, her husband, Jared Kushner, and their children profess the Jewish faith.
It’s clear that Stephanie Trouillard and other uncurious and uninformed journalists need to expand their circle of informants.
Oh, and maybe they should write about things they know something about.
Perhaps such slanted “think” pieces have become prevalent because France – if it continues in the direction it is heading – will be a Muslim-majority country within the next decade.
As will Germany.
So, good luck to those new U.S. ex-pat German citizens.
They’re going to need it.
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Sounds like Trouillard has ten Jewish people she talks to, all of them employed by Columbia or Harvard and about to have their 7 figure salaries slashed by Trump.
Where to begin? Trouillard presents no evidence to support her conclusion. France has its own existential problem which she ignores ( becoming Muslim majority; Arabic supplanting the French language; Sharia law replacing French law in more parts of France; No Go zones; uncontrolled immigration). If an American Jew is considering leaving the U.S., it could only be because of the antisemitism of the Secular Left.
Trump, and his policies, have been supportive of Jews and Israel.
Who am I? I am a Jew whose father was born in Germany, the youngest of seven siblings. He left Germany for Holland in 1933, seeing the rise of Hitler and leaving behind his older and established family to later die in the camps. My father and Dutch mother were saved by a righteous Christian family in the attic of their home for three years until after D-Day. And for further context, my wife is a Persian Jew who arrived in the US in July 1975.
I thank God every day that I live in the U.S. and that Trump is our President.
Berney