3 Jews Are Attacked in a Paris Suburb

NY Times ^ | March 7, 2006 | CRAIG S. SMITH

[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.

[Pharmboy]

Sounds like they were roaming the Jewish neighborhoods looking for them. Sounds like it's time for a Parisian neighborhood watch program for the Jews. They can buy baseball bats on line.

[Pharmboy]

Ping...

[angkor]

"black and Arab youths"

Were they also Moos?

[Pharmboy]

That's sure the way I would bet...I can't remember ever hearing about roving bands of Christian arabs attacking ANYone.

[whitedog57]

First laugh of the morning! But excellent point!

[sgtbono2002]

The story goes out of its way to say Anti-Semites instead of Islamic terrorists.

It may already be too late to save France, but from the way they react I am not sure they are worth saving.

During the Second World War France packed up their Jews and sent them off to the concentration camps, so we know the French are anti-Semitic themselves, now they refuse to take action against Muslims who attack Jews. They forget when these Islamics stop attacking jews, they will be coming after Caucasion Christian French.

[Quick Shot]

They're safe.... There aren't many Christians left.. bunch of socialists instead.

[SmoothTalker]

Sounds like more violent Baptists. Perhaps Hindus. Maybe even Buddhists. You really can't trust those Buhhists. Buddhism is not a religion of peace.

[EBH]

Maybe I am waxing way too nostalgic for my own liking, but isn't there a memorial to the men & women who several generations ago fought and died to stop sh*t like this? Sure this isn't as obvious as Nazis marching across the border; it is more insidious.

So many out there still waffling on the PC fence, we need a generation, another generation to rise up against this evil masquerading as a religion. Have the generations that were given the gift of freedom not learned that it is worth fighting for? Speaking truth to power is the only way to reach the people and yet cartoonists...hide. Nobody wants to fight for what's right.

We are long past resolving any of this civilly. The insidiousness reaches too deeply into our PC world. So, let us acknowledge our intolerance of them and let the battle be waged.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

American Jews and their allies need to organize a campaign to save the Jews of France by supporting their rapid emigration out. By the end of this decade there should be no more Jews left in France. It was done with Russia in the late seventies and eighties, it can be done again. Jews in France should have no illusions about what is coming.

[Spirochete]

organize a campaign to save the Jews of France by supporting their rapid emigration out.

Great - just don't bring them here (they're French).

[sgtbono2002]

****Sure this isn't as obvious as Nazis marching across the border; it is more insidious.*****

These people are smarter than the Nazi's.
They dont send people with tanks. They just keep sending people. The intention is the same, and when they get enough people there they will destroy the country from the inside.

It isnt only happening in France either, its a world wide invasion.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Sounds like more violent Baptists. Perhaps Hindus. Maybe even Buddhists. You really can't trust those Buhhists. Buddhism is not a religion of peace."

The real problem is the roving gangs of Amish "youth"
racing carriages on the interstate......:0)

[Dallas59]

But you see it's not their fault they are "Anti Semitic". Racism, poverty and the stigma of being an immigrant no matter how many years they have been in the host country is the real culprit. As soon as France adopts the religion, government, and society in general of the misunderstood immigrants, things will be alright.

[MarMema]

It was done in Chechnya also. And I agree, it is time to do it in France.

[EBH]

its a world wide invasion

I know it is. Check the tagline, check the profile. What will it take to wake a sleeping world?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

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.

Just keep ignoring the elephant in the room, Mr. Reporter...

[Madame Dufarge]

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.

Wow, it only took 6 paragraphs for the "M" word to appear.

Probably an editing error that it was mentioned at all.

[Dante3]

These terrible acts do not surprise me. And should not surprise France or any other country that imports nationalities who hate Jews. Made me wonder if that was not the reason they imported them.

[wintertime]

Jews are the canaries in the mine. When they start dying, then the rest of us are in deep trouble.