Fifty-five anti-Semitic incidents in France in the last two and a half weeks:
A total of 55 anti-Semitic incidents occurred in France since the start of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, said President of the French Jewish Students’ Union Raphael Haddad on Monday.
“This is a higher number of incidents than that of 2001 after the second intifada started,” Haddad said in a meeting with Secretary of State for Urban Policies Fadela Amara.
Way to go, France. Twenty percent of the total number of attacks in 2007 in only 18 days.
According to Haddad, a total of 271 anti-Semitic incidents were noted in 2007.
By the way: Now it’s 57 incidents.
Two synagogues in France have been vandalized, one with a swastika scrawled on it, a Jewish organization said Wednesday, in what some observers believe to be a result of tensions over the fighting in the Gaza Strip.
[…] In Lille, the vandals scrawled graffiti including a swastika on the synagogue’s facade and shattered a window. In Mulhouse, the vandals wrote “hateful slogans” on the synagogue, the group said in a statement. It did not provide further details.
Shall we stop pretending that violence against Israel isn’t violence against Jews? Because it’s certain that the attackers of these synagogues are making a statement about Israel.
I’d be curious to know if if there have been any reported anti-Muslim actions in France, whether from Jews or anyone else. Since a lot of the media ascribe attacks on Jews to frustration and outrage over the Gaza attacks, has anyone expressed frustration and outrage over Hamas with such actions?
My guess is: no one has.
Of course not. Jews don’t have a culture where street violence is considered an acceptable means of personal expression.
And if there were Jewish attacks on Muslim institutions, I rather doubt anyone would be saying that yeah, they’re opposed to it, but you have to understand what frustrated and hopeless people may do.