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3 Jews Are Attacked in a Paris Suburb
NY Times ^ | March 7, 2006 | CRAIG S. SMITH

Posted on 03/07/2006 3:28:03 AM PST by Pharmboy

PARIS, March 6 — Three attacks against Jews over the weekend have added to anxiety that anti-Semitism is growing among a new generation of French citizens in the country's immigrant-heavy, working-class neighborhoods.

The police said two young men, 17 and 18, were attacked late Friday by black and Arab youths in the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles, home to a large number of Jewish families. The attackers broke the nose of one victim, a rabbi's son, and stole the cellphone of the other.

On Saturday, a 28-year-old Jewish man was beaten in the same suburb by youths who made anti-Semitic remarks. He suffered a dislocated shoulder. Four people are being questioned in the Saturday attack, the police said.

"Anti-Semitism is rising in our country," Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a legislator representing Sarcelles, said after a meeting in which Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy spoke with the victims of the attacks.

France is still absorbing the torture and killing last month of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man.

His death has focused attention on a virulent anti-Semitism that has grown since the start of the Palestinians' second intifada against Israel. Many of the youths in the country's working-class neighborhoods are from Muslim families and have taken the Palestinian conflict onto the streets at home.

The police have increased patrols around synagogues in the suburbs north of Paris.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antsemitism; france; frenchjews; judeophobia; muslims
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To: Nachum

The Bloc Quebecois wants to bring them all to Canada.


41 posted on 03/07/2006 9:37:58 AM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 39-43)
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To: Cicero
I can't read this article without thinking that The New York Times bears some responsibility for this persecution. They helped set it up with their sanctimonious multiculturalism, their anti-Christian bias, their support of Chirac against Bush, and their pro-immigration policies.

Ironically, I think that much of the intellectual energy behind the decades long push toward multiculturalism and high immigration rates was supplied by liberal Jews who believed that they would be safer and more at home in a multicultural nation than in a culturally consolidated, largely Christian nation.

Happily, many, many Jews (who it seems to me are natural conservatives) have come over to our side and realize that the nation needs some cultural coherence, which, in this country, would necessarily be Christian.

This is a nasty little irony and I point it out with no intent to offend anyone. But when there is a major, pertinent aspect of this kind of historical/cultural analysis that political correctness drives underground, I just feel the need to say it out loud.

(btw, I am a cultural (i.e., non-believing) Christian who also could never be one hundred per cent comfortable in a fervently Christian land. But I don’t think we are anywhere remotely near “fervent,” as a nation. And I am certainly not troubled by ANY of the Christian symbolism that gets the loathsome ACLU so worked up. If anything is a threat to non-Christians in this country, it is the aggressive and obnoxious drive to DE-Christianize it.)

42 posted on 03/07/2006 9:51:15 AM PST by LK44-40
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To: Alouette
The Bloc Quebecois wants to bring them all to Canada.

I read the series of articles from the Canadian press that was posted here a while back on that subject.

There is just one thing about these victims of French anti-Semitism that got up my nose a bit. Most of them were heading for Israel or Montreal with a few going to Miami. Several quotes had them desperate to excape the ugly anti-Semitism in France but unable to bear the thought of coming to a vulgar, violent place like the U.S.! [paraphrased from vague recollection of the words but clear recollection of the attitude]

Actually, it kinda makes me laugh. They are French, after all!

43 posted on 03/07/2006 10:00:00 AM PST by LK44-40
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To: sgtbono2002
Yes, the French have a long tradition of anti-semitism. And cowardice. Couldn't get those Jews on the trains fast enough.
44 posted on 03/07/2006 10:29:55 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Pharmboy

Native French non-Jews are attacked every day but so dehumanized and atomized are they that such attacks are not merely never mentioned but it is dangerously close to a crime to point them out.


45 posted on 03/07/2006 1:52:54 PM PST by jordan8
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To: Pharmboy
Sounds like they were roaming the Jewish neighborhoods looking for them

Sounds like this should be talked about around the world. More than a cartoon.

46 posted on 03/07/2006 7:37:07 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (I love my danish)
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To: sgtbono2002
It isnt only happening in France either, its a world wide invasion.

Amen. Right here in the US of A.

47 posted on 03/07/2006 7:38:17 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (I love my danish)
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To: angkor

doesn't say, but my guess is yes.


48 posted on 03/07/2006 7:39:59 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: LK44-40

I can't read this article without thinking that The New York Times bears some responsibility for this persecution. They helped set it up with their sanctimonious multiculturalism, their anti-Christian bias, their support of Chirac against Bush, and their pro-immigration policies.

Ironically, I think that much of the intellectual energy behind the decades long push toward multiculturalism and high immigration rates was supplied by liberal Jews who believed that they would be safer and more at home in a multicultural nation than in a culturally consolidated, largely Christian nation.

Happily, many, many Jews (who it seems to me are natural conservatives) have come over to our side and realize that the nation needs some cultural coherence, which, in this country, would necessarily be Christian.

This is a nasty little irony and I point it out with no intent to offend anyone. But when there is a major, pertinent aspect of this kind of historical/cultural analysis that political correctness drives underground, I just feel the need to say it out loud.

(btw, I am a cultural (i.e., non-believing) Christian who also could never be one hundred per cent comfortable in a fervently Christian land. But I don’t think we are anywhere remotely near “fervent,” as a nation. And I am certainly not troubled by ANY of the Christian symbolism that gets the loathsome ACLU so worked up. If anything is a threat to non-Christians in this country, it is the aggressive and obnoxious drive to DE-Christianize it.)"

It's incredible that even in a post 9/11 world, the Leftists continue down this path of deChristianizing the U.S., without a clue that they are literally destroying their own future in the process.

A handfull of people have driven this insanity over the past 35 plus years, pushing whatever buttons they think will work with each group they infiltrate. Just because it sounds like a conspiracy theory doesn't mean it can't be true.


49 posted on 03/07/2006 8:03:11 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: ZeitgeistSurfer

"Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has urged all French Jews to move to Israel immediately to escape anti-Semitism. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3904943.stm


50 posted on 03/07/2006 8:03:32 PM PST by dervish ("And what are we becoming? The civilization of melted butter?")
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To: Pharmboy; A. Pole

Le Pen is siding with the Muslims against the Jews.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581459/posts


51 posted on 03/07/2006 8:06:34 PM PST by dervish ("And what are we becoming? The civilization of melted butter?")
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To: dervish
Le Pen is siding with the Muslims against the Jews.

I am not sure, maybe now. But he was the main opponent of Muslim immigration years ago when it was a good time to stop it.

52 posted on 03/07/2006 8:15:58 PM PST by A. Pole (Hush Bimbo: "Low wage is good for you!")
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To: ZeitgeistSurfer
Jews in France should have no illusions about what is coming.

French Jewry seems to have fallen back into minimization and outright denial-- They seem to look down on the Islamic threat as if "it can't happen here, we French are beyond all that." More Jews immigrate to France than leave France currently, as if it were a safe harbor for them. It puzzles me.

53 posted on 03/07/2006 8:20:27 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Spirochete

I'd welcome them in a minute to the US. They would raise our average IQ and diminish France's.


54 posted on 03/07/2006 8:35:04 PM PST by Roy Tucker
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To: dervish

I did not know that...thanks for the post. Wow...


55 posted on 03/08/2006 2:54:32 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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