Peace demonstrators in France stab 2 Jewish boys

Jeusalem Post ^ | Mar. 23, 2003 | THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF

[JURB]

According to the Jewish Agency, Anti-American demonstrators attacked and wounded two young boys Saturday. The boys were participating in an educational activity of the Hashomer Hatsa'ir youth movement, taking place nearby.

The Jewish Agency called on the French government "to assume its responsibility for the security of its Jewish citizens, and to prevent violence against Jews or anti-Semitic acts under the guise of pacifist protest".

[putupon]

So has Chirac cut a deal yet with Schroeder for steady deliveries of the Zyklon-B?

Schroeder needs a new customer. He's having trouble shipping product to Baghdad right now.

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[maryz]

I won't be doing business with democrats and anti-war protestors.

Likely not a hard vow to keep re anti-war protestors -- As Howie Carr keeps pointing out, those interviewed are always "between jobs" or give their profession as "environmental activist" or "neighborhood organizer." (Though there was a letter to the Boston Herald yesterday -- taking offense at something Howie wrote -- from a sociology major!)

[DBtoo]

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[Asher]

"Anti-Semitism is evil and the BBC is full of nonsense; but I hope you are not basing your opinion of the rest of your countrymen on what the BBC has to say."

I am basing it on my own personal experiences and those of my fellow Jews. When Jewish journalists of the left can openly voice their fears in of all places the Independent; when famous Jewish playwrights can be asked whether they are ashamed to be Jewish; when Jews can be spat at and attacked in the street; when talk of Jewish plots are rampant; when a person does not feel safe to walk the streets displaying a Star of David; when the entire media can be virtually silent in the face of the most anti-Semitic campaign since Goebbels; when Israel is being sold down the river yet again by a British government; when many Jews are wondering if they should leave Britain because of fears about their safety - when all these things are happening at the same time, I can assure you that the "beast" as Ariel Sharon recently put it is once more stalking the streets of Britain.

Melanie Philips' article

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/870739/posts

And many similar articles have been written by individuals like Conrad Black, Howard Jacobson, and Barbara Amiel about the upsurge of anti-Semitism specifically in Britain.

[MadIvan]

I may have a bit of a blinker on because my views on the subject are such that I doubt anyone would have aired an anti-Zionist opinion in front of me. To give you some idea, you're talking to a former member of the Conservative Friends of Israel (I left the Tory Party for a while after they ditched Margaret Thatcher).

One thing I will say that you are absolutely right about and Ms. Phillips is absolutely right about is the anti-Semitism of the Left. It's no coincidence that we see Palestinian flags flying among the anti-war protestors, and they all say in the same breath, "Freedom for Palestine".

I do think, however, there is an important distinction to be drawn, between the pseudo-intellectual anti-Semitism of the left wing establishment, and the gutter anti-Semitism that creates a Hitler. The former, I agree is very real, and very dangerous, the latter, and I still think I am right in saying this, is not something the average (non-Muslim anyway) person even thinks about.

Regards, Ivan

[Asher]

"I do think, however, there is an important distinction to be drawn, between the pseudo-intellectual anti-Semitism of the left wing establishment, and the gutter anti-Semitism that creates a Hitler."

Whatever its origins we Jews have learned to our cost that all anti-Semitism, given the right conditions, ends up in the same place. And there is as much anti-Semitism from other areas of the political arena with such proponents as A.N. Wilson whose own "descent into hate" has been so well catalogued by Jacobson recently. I remember being shocked some months ago when listening to a radio programme hosted by Matthew Paris in which everyone agreed that the Holocaust had been much overrated and really it wasn't such a big deal. I could give you many other examples in the media over the years from Robert Harris who wrote a piece entitled "It's about time Jews realised they were living in a Christian country" to Peregrine Worsthorne who was most indignant that his wife's foot had been stood on by an Orthodox Jew and expressed amazement that Jews post-Holocaust had not learned their lesson. And surely you saw the piece in the Spectator a year or so back that detailed just how rampant anti-Semitism had become in "all the right circles" in the capital?

In occupied Jersey during the war the British police handed over the Jews to the Nazis. It would have been no different in mainland Britain and recent events have shown that not much has changed. As Barbara Amiel put it most succintly: "Anti-Semitism is the street corner where the right and left meet in Britain."

The British have very many worthy qualities but philo-Semitism is certainly not one of them.

[OldFriend]

The French government's goal is to rid it's country of jewish citizens.

[Anamensis]

Only a government can be violent, or someone acting to further governmental violence. Violence occurs in many forms: physical, economic, social, psychological, and environmental, for example. But any act against capitalist violence by definition cannot be violent--and stabbing Jews (who back the state of Israel or at least symbolize it)--therefore cannot be a violent act....

Point of clarification: only capitalist governments can be violent, therefore the murders committed by the Khmer Rouge, Mao, Stalin, etc etc, don't count. They are only reactions to the violence of imperialist capitalist governments, see?

Oppression is by nature violent, and capitalism is by nature oppression, therefore any violence against capitalism is mere reaction. That's Paulo Freire, and he's being taught to undergraduates as an authority on Educational theory. They have to read him before they can become... public school teachers. Ah, eh?

[Grampa Dave]

You posted, "Reading things like this really make me wonder how so many of the jewish people here in America can vote democrat!!!"

They are JINO's who hate being Jewish and support those who kill and would kill real jews.

[xm177e2]

Point of clarification: only capitalist governments can be violent

Point of clarification: Marx said the state would wither away, therefore Communist countries do not have "government." "Violence" by Communists is actually resistance to capitalist oppression, therefore it cannot be "violence."

[Anamensis]

Point of clarification: Marx said the state would wither away, therefore Communist countries do not have "government." "Violence" by Communists is actually resistance to capitalist oppression, therefore it cannot be "violence."

Ahhh... yes... you're right! Once one understands, everything becomes so clear!

[Jacob Kell]

Doesn't Sweden forbid kosher slaughtering practice for butchers? Plus didn't Sweden also allow Islamofascist Ahmed Rami to live there?