France's National Front party; overtones of Islamophobia, but still not as racist as Israel

Haaretz- ...Does the fact that people once seen as blatant anti-Semites are now cloaking themselves with the label of Islamophobes prove that anti-Semitism no longer pays in present-day Europe?

...Rabbis in Israel have published a declaration calling on Jews not to rent apartments to Arabs. Do you identify with that?

"Those Arabs are Israeli, aren't they? And in that case, they should be treated the same way as all the citizens. The country must decide if it is granting citizenship to its inhabitants or not, but from the moment it has done so, they must be treated equally."

And as a person who keeps track of the phenomenon of migrants and infiltrators to Israel, what is your opinion of the way Israeli society is handling the problem, and specifically of the idea of building a fence on the Egyptian border and a detention camp in the south?

"If we were to say in France a thousandth of what they say in Israel on the subject, we would immediately be thrown into prison for incitement to racial hatred. In practical terms, the country must adopt a preventive and effective immigration policy, which would include putting the employers of foreigners on trial and imposing heavy fines on them. You also have to implement the idea of national preference, and abolish all the incentives that attract migrants, for example social welfare, education for the children, health and housing services. Other means, such as deporting the immigrants back to their homeland, won't work. As long as they have temptations, they'll continue to come. I understand them: Even if they're unemployed here, because of the benefits, they gain much more here than if they had stayed to work in their countries. Once they have no reason to emigrate, they simply won't come any more." Read more