For Jews in France, a 'Kind of Intifada'

Washington Post ^ | July 16, 2003 | Glenn Frankel

[Ooh-Ah]

PARIS -- The phone message is one of 10 waiting for Sylvain Zenouda at the local office of the Jewish Community Council of greater Paris: A gang of 15 North African teenagers, some of them wielding broom handles, had invaded the grounds of a Jewish day school on Avenue de Flandre in northeast Paris the previous evening. They punched and kicked teachers and students, yelled epithets and set off firecrackers in the courtyard before fleeing.

[BenLurkin]

From the article: "Most of the perpetrators are not the ultra-rightists and neo-Nazis who once were responsible for anti-Semitic acts, but young North African Arabs"

[A_perfect_lady]

Alternate Headline: Jews Begin to Realize that Muslims Hate them No Matter Where They Live or What They Do.

Or Al Jazeera's take: First We Get the Saturday People, Then We Get the Sunday People.

[Guillermo]

France should simply continue to allow unlimited Muslim immigration. It's in their best interest.

[wideawake]

More on Le guerre contre les Juifs.

[SENTINEL]

"A gang of 15 North African teenagers"

What a bunch of P.C. garbage. They were no doubt run-of-the-mill Arab Rock Chuckers !

[PeaceCorpsGuy]

The Vinchy Regieme at its finest!

[A_perfect_lady]

France should simply continue to allow unlimited Muslim immigration. It's in their best interest.

Yes! Diversity is their strength, immigrants only take the jobs that the French won't do, it keeps the country dynamic.... ;^)

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Cicero]

nearly half involve violent acts of some kind

It really is time for the ADL and the other liberal Jewish organizations to get off their rear ends and start worrying about where the danger to Jews really lies these days.

No, the Nazi fetichists and skinheads aren't nice people. But the real danger comes from Muslims and from the LEFTIST ELITES AND MEDIA LIARS who support Muslims and excuse this kind of behavior.

It's not nice to discriminate against Jews and keep them out of your country clubs, but it's a whole lot worse to blow them up, beat up their kids, and call for the extinction of the Jews--and really mean it. And the left continues to carry water for them.

[Jack Black]

The teachers there should buy some handguns. Next time someone breaks in and starts beating people shoot 'em dead. It really is the only appropriate response. It would make a much better headline too: "Nine North African Thugs Killed while Rioting"

[dsc]

"Nine North African Thugs Killed while Rioting"

Ah, but that wouldn't be the headline, would it?

How about, "Jewish Vigilantes Gun Down Rowdy Teenagers?"

Of all the intellectual contortions I've seen the left go through, this one has to be the most bizarre. I wonder how they square blatant anti-Semitism with notions of "social justice."

No, on second thought, I'd rather not hear them try.

[Alouette]

My son lives in Toronto, where he is also worried about anti-Semitic attacks. He told him to buy a gun, learn how to use it, and teach his family how to use it.

He said, "But it's illegal in Canada to own a gun."

I then said, "Get a big Rottweiler."

[ThinkFreedom]

You forgot the leftist take: "Jewish Community Intollerant of Cultural Diversity. Need to learn to be more accepting of Islamic Culture's violent tendancies".

Here we have a cut and dried example of real racism at work. Meanwhile, the leftist PC patrol that has gathered around the new Kremlin of the EUssr (sorry, Paris, France) are too busy blaming the innocent victims to stop this real act of racism. And why would they, stamping out real racism gets in the way of the PC agenda. While intollerant Muslims go about blowing up and threatening decent religious folk the world over, the PC freaks are too busy branding people who treat all people equally and treat others how they want to be treated themselves as "intollerant" "sexist" "racists".

Time for a total French boycott.

[Alouette]

He told him = I told him.

Note to self: proofread posts, that's what the preview screen is for.

[nosofar]

No, the Nazi fetichists and skinheads aren't nice people. But the real danger comes from Muslims and from the LEFTIST ELITES AND MEDIA LIARS who support Muslims and excuse this kind of behavior.

They should thank the Jews. If not for them, these same Muslims would turn on the other citizens of their country.

[nosofar]

The teachers there should buy some handguns. Next time someone breaks in and starts beating people shoot 'em dead. It really is the only appropriate response. It would make a much better headline too: "Nine North African Thugs Killed while Rioting"

Or what's more likely, "Nine peaceful North African Immigrants murdered a *#$#! Jew".

[ought-six]

Sounds frighteningly like Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Jews in Germany considered themselves Germans first and Jews second, just like the Jews in France identified themselves as French first and Jewish second. As in Germany, there are a great number of Frenchmen (primarily of an Islamic bent, but many others who are not Islamic) who see the matter differently: i.e., that their targets are Jews first and French second. Good God, are we going to see this horror start up again?

[George W. Bush]

Europe's remaining Jews need to flee to Israel or the Americas. I hope they don't wait until it's too late again.

[jordan8]

The main victims of racial violence in France are French natives, not Jews. But don't expect any tougher laws, uncompromising statements from leading cabinet members and a
stronger police presence.