Posted on 03/25/2006 6:50:08 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In working-class Parisian suburbs like this one, heavily populated by North African immigrants, the word "Jew" is now a standard epithet. It appears in graffiti on middle school walls and neighborhood playgrounds and on the tongues of the young.
"It's blacks and Arabs on one side and Jews on the other," said Sebastian Daranal, a young black man standing in the parking lot of a government-subsidized housing project with two friends.
Eight men beat the son of a rabbi here in March. Another Jew was attacked the next day.
In the wake of the torture and killing in February of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jew, attention has focused on an undeniable problem: anti-Semitism among France's second-generation immigrant youth, whose high jobless rate the government is trying to address with a law drawing widespread protests across the country.
Schools are the battleground over anti-Semitism, and teachers complain that the government has done little, despite many proposals.
"The minister of education has done nothing," said Jean-Pierre Obin, an inspector general of education in France, who wrote a report in 2004 that called anti-Semitism "ubiquitous" in the 61 schools surveyed. "He prefers not to talk about it."
Mr. Obin wrote in the report of "a stupefying and cruel reality: in France, Jewish children — and they are alone in this case — can no longer be educated in just any school."
Ianis Roder, 34, a history teacher in a middle school northeast of Paris, said he was stunned by what he witnessed after Sept. 11, 2001. The next day, someone spray-painted in a stairwell of the school the image of an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center beside the words "Death to the U.S., Death to Jews."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That means the French Police are now authorized to surrender en mass.
L
450 police injured?Time for the "shot while resisting arrest" method of law enforcement to come into play.
Yes I do, actually. Of course that may all be part of Sarko's evil plan.
Yes, Kerry speaks fluent French BTW. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Muslims are either (maybe both):
1. The new Nazi's of the 21st century
and/or
2. The Beverly Hillbillies of the Middle East... I can hear the theme song for the Beverly Hillbillies, except with some new characters. All gilt and gold and private jets, yet still ignorant and rather smelly.
Yes, Kerry speaks fluent French BTW. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Muslims are either (maybe both):
1. The new Nazi's of the 21st century
and/or
2. The Beverly Hillbillies of the Middle East... I can hear the theme song for the Beverly Hillbillies, except with some new characters. All gilt and gold and private jets, yet still ignorant and rather smelly.
What arms?
Unfortunately, we're talking about Euro-cops here. The only capital offense that Brussels recognizes is tax evasion.
"Stop thief, or I'll yell 'Stop' again!".
Hmmm...
Why does that have such a familiar ring to it?
They're the former. Their ruling class are well educated and savvy to modern socio-economic-political manuevering.
Jeezus, they truly are cowards.
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The Mayor of Paris thinks it is the government's fault, for standing firm? // roll eyes// And what about the policemen in that pix? And what about all the non-Frenchie looking participants in that purse-snatching?
"Its time for French Jews to make aliyah to Israel. They'll be safer there than in France and they won't be murdered just for being Jews."
I don't think a comparison of Jews killed in antisemitic attacks in France and Israel would show that Israel is the safer place...
As for the aliyah, of course they have this opportunity. In the end, most of them will probably choose to stay, some of them will choose to emigrate, and some of those who emigrate will come back.
bookmark
They need to be trained by veterans of the Chicago PD, from 1968. Some videos of the 1968 dem convention would be a good starting point!
Mark
Why aren't these usually noisy leaders speaking out loudly and clearly to the world?
Clearly, they're in a dilemna. Like the French leaders, too many of them hate Bush, hate we went into Iraq, they are anti-Christian, secular, or atheistic. They side with the Muslims and they want us to lose the war on terror. They are Dems, socialists and leftists.
These leaders are astute enough to see that another Krystal Nacht terror tactic has already begun in Paris.
These silent American Jewish leaders know very well that anti-Semitism is common among the French elite and has been ongoing.
What are they waiting for to speak out in support of their French Jewish brothers and sisters?
Or is it that it's only the few AMERICAN neo-nazi jerks who paint swastikas on walls who are the only threat to the fate of French Jews?.
I don't consider this NYTimes (owned by a Jewish family) article to be "speaking up" in defense of French Jews at all. It's so patently obvious what side this leftist fish-wrap rag is on by its censoring the word "Muslims" from the article.
Leni
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