"Gas the Jews": Anti-Semitic Protesters Loot Shops, Burn Cars In France's 'Little Jerusalem'

[Behind the Aegis]

Sarcelles, France is a suburban city located just north of Paris. It is known as “Little Jerusalem” to Jewish residents, who say the community feels like home. Unfortunately, the neighborhood is now the latest victim of anti-Semitic rioting. This past week, despite a government ban on protests against the Israeli offensive in Gaza against the terror organization Hamas, pro-Palestinian protesters looted Jewish shops, set fire to automobiles and chanted “Kill the Jews” in the city that is supposed to celebrate Jewish culture.

The Huffington Post UK reported the violence, including horrid pieces of eyewitness news:

Eighteen people were arrested for attacks on shops, including a kosher supermarket, a Jewish-owned chemist and a funeral home. Rioters, who carried batons and threw petrol bombs according to eyewitnesses, were yards from the synagogue when they were driven back by riot police who used tear gas.

“They were shouting: ‘Death to Jews,’ and ‘Slit Jews’ throats’,” David, a Jewish sound engineer told The Times. “It took us back to 1938.”

more: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2014/07/23/antisemitism-seeping-into-france-n1865007

[mwrguy]

1. Townhall.com ? Nice right-wing source there

I'm sure that it's totally unbiased against Muslims.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Care to actually comment on the anti-Semitism?

Better?!

Gaza conflict: France criticises 'anti-Semitic' riot

[freshwest]

6. France is unable to maintain order, perhaps doesn't want to do so. Another article says Jews have

been leaving France to live in the UK and Israel.

The first one sounds like a good idea, the second sounds like going from the frying pan into the fire.

They say that anti-Jewish sentiment in the UK is mild compared to the rest of Europe.

The phrase most often used is 'It's just like 1938.'

[IronGate]

9. Wow.

That's your contribution to the well reported anti Semitism in France?

[Bill USA]

10. did you notice the article referenced a HuffPo article....

[Sherman A1]

2. Very sad

and it solves nothing, only ratchets up the violence hardening the opinions on both sides.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. It is acceptable to some.

Be it numbers, or the "wrong" source, anti-Semitism is a fucking joke to some.

[Sherman A1]

5. Very true

and racism in any form is unacceptable. I wish I knew a way to end the hatred, not simply in this case but in all cases, however I do not.

[BainsBane]

11. Some of it far closer to home.

As I'm sure you've observed.

When global events lead to expressions of hatred toward a people, it's hard for me to see their views as anything but a pretext for that hatred. How can anyone claim to be speaking out against injustice while advocating something so horrific?

[N.Y. to Paris]

7. "slit their throats?" really? Charming......

How bout we gas the bigots?

[William769]

8. All I can say is

[Roy Serohz]

12. I make no secret of my dislike for Netanyahu and his thuggish regime

In fact, I think what the Israeli government and military are doing to Palestinians today is comparable to what the Nazis did to German Jews in the 1930s, pre-WWII, pre-Holocaust. But we cannot and must not cast blame on some 15,000,000 people, all over the world, or 5.9 million in Israel itself, for the actions of a tiny minority of fanatics.

And yes, in answer to a question in another forum, of course there are liberal anti-semites. And conservative ones. American, non-American, and among every ethnicity. It's a mental plague that has persisted for centuries if not millenia. I wish the hell I knew the cure.