Disgrace in France
Choose your thugs: The people who perpetrated this brutality, or the French government for being too cowardly (or too nostalgic for Vichy) to call it what it is.
Days before the presidential elections in France, authorities are reluctant to label as anti-Semitic an incident in which 22-year-old Audrey Brachelle was brutally attacked last Thursday in Marseilles.…According to Brachelle, her attackers began striking her in the head. Then, one of them pulled a knife, cut a tuft of her hair and slashed her shirt. The two men then drew a swastika on her bare chest and fled the scene.
One thing is clear: In light of this latest atrocity, activists across the world will stage demonstrations against racist, fundamentalist butchers.
Unless, of course, they ignore it.
Hat tip to DK.
http://www.forward.com/article.....migration/
That there is a debate on immigration within th Jewish community is pretty much official now, isn’t it?
—DK · April 30th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
[...] others who are also unconvinced that American exceptionalism will preempt the problems afflicting France, England and Holland, or worse [...]
—The other foot on immigration : The Kvetcher · April 30th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
i’m always shocked to discover the differences between the hebrew and english versions of Haaretz. take a look if you read hebrew
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasit.....ntrassID=0
a bit more complicated, isn’t it?
—yossi · April 30th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Exactly what yossi said. Also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3891609.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3611764.stm
—Dave · April 30th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Our voices won’t be silenced.
I wrote this post as may start writing for jVoices this summer when it was reported that their site was attacked.
Things are heating up world-wide and the press and Jewish organization will have to speak loud and clear.
—Lewis · May 1st, 2007 at 2:08 pm
[...] A Jewish woman in France was attacked, stripped, and had swastikas drawn on her body. The incident wasn’t called anti-Semitic. It also wasn’t called a sexual attack. Um, what? Via Jewschool. [...]
—salty sunday « salty femme. · May 6th, 2007 at 5:33 pm