Hi all; A fascinating article on anti-semitism in France. The article says that it is the left wing in France that is anti-semitic. The right is more anti-arab:
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One innocent explanation would be that French society has suited up to do battle with the anti-Semitism of 70 years ago, and simply doesn't recognize any other kind. The new anti-Semites are not German-speaking militarists--who were conquered. They are not Catholic traditionalists--whose anti-Semitism rested on doctrines no longer asserted by Catholicism, which, in any case, is a religion the French no longer practice. As such, the French lack the imagination to see that the new anti-Semites--who are primarily radical Muslims--are anti-Semites at all. "Your father's Nazism is dead," says the political scientist Alexandre Del Valle. "It exists in the heads of three or four alcoholic skinheads." In other words, the new anti-Semitism is not coming from the right.
"The danger that looms over the Jewish community is not the danger that threatened us before," says Gilles William Goldnadel, author of an acute study of recent anti-Semitism, The New Breviary of Hatred. Goldnadel told a crowd at a B'nai B'rith Center in Paris's sixth arrondissement a few nights before the election, "Worry about the right has turned out to be a decoy--in the military sense--to distract us from the real danger. French anti-racists have been parsing the tiniest dictum of Le Pen, while Jewish blood has been spilled by the left in Athens, Istanbul, Rome, Vienna, and Paris." (Particularly by Palestinian terrorists.) There are indications that the government, too, is looking at the wrong target. By the turn of this year, 60 people had been questioned for the hundreds of acts of intimidation. "Only 5 were subject to legal proceedings, being far Right," according to a report prepared by Shimon Samuels of the Wiesenthal Center. "As if the others were not really anti-Semitic and their exactions not just as serious."
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weeklystandard.com
-- Carl
P.S. From Nadine Carroll on the FADG thread: #reply-17395537 |
