Arrest of IMF Head Not So Good for the Jews

"Money, women, and the fact that I am Jewish": three barriers that Dominique Strauss-Kahn mused in a recent interview with the French daily Liberation would stand in his way despite his being the expected favorite for his country's upcoming presidential elections. Turns out one was all it took.

It's unclear whether Strauss-Kahn's Judaism, about which he was outspoken, would have played a role in an election. Some French politicians describe the prospect of a Jewish President as "normal," yet a member of Sarkozy's political party seemed to allude to the IMF leader's Jewish roots when he recently remarked on French radio that the IMF leader “doesn’t embody the image of France, the image of rural France that we like, and to which I’m attached."
What is clear, however, is that Strauss-Kahn is not so good for the Jews.

Full article from the Jerusalem Post here