Posted on 04/19/2016 9:09:40 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Alain Finkielkraut, a pro-Israel, left-wing philosopher who was recently recognized as one of France’s greatest thinkers, was violently ejected from a public gathering on labor laws.
Finkielkraut, who is Jewish, was spat on and heckled by protesters shouting “fascist” and “racist” on Saturday at a rally organized by the Nuit Debout, or White Night, platform, set up in March 31 in opposition to laws proposed by the government of President Francois Hollande, a Socialist, that would make it easier for employers to fire workers in order to help France’s stagnant economy to grow.
Finkielkraut was filmed leaving the gathering, where he came only to listen to speeches, with his wife as insults were shouted at him. He initially tried to engage the hecklers, telling them: “I’m also a human being, am I not?” before he finally gave up...
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Once the socialists get a taste of the government teat, they refuse to relinquish the milk paid for with the sweat of others.
Ejecting him for being a Jew was wrong. But if he belongs to the European version of J-Street, he is no Zionist.
The FSA strikes again. Imagine that. Attacked for supporting the right of a boss to fire some lazy worker. And of course him being a Jew fits right in with the acceptable anti-Semitism allowed in Europe now.
Article says he was heckled and driven out for being a Zionist of whatever stripe. Don’t think he’s J street type, but even if he was it doesn’t mitigate the intolerance and jack-boot tactics. In France, ‘left wing’ and ‘socialist’ is the baseline, I think.
Mort à la FSA!
It sure sounds like Springtime for Hitler again.
It’s perverse how leftists call their victims “racists”, “fascists”, or “haters”, just before committing acts of racism, fascism and hate.
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