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- From: Jeff Wald <pamela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: kfar_etzion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:10:52 +0200
I got this from my friend Bill Goldstein. I left his reservations as an
introductary to all the disturbing
facts in the letter. For those whose English is a bit
on the non-existence side,I appologize. But for those
whose English manageable, the effort will be a great
mitzvah .
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From: Bill Goldstein
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:59 PM
Subject: SCARY STUFF: ANTI-SEMITISM
Today, I opened my e-mail and read this that I am sending to you. Although I
do not know when this was written, or if it is very truthful. If it is
accurate, I am uncomfortable with it, and I assume that it must be partly true,
but wonder if it is as bad as this notes says that it is. I hope that you can
tell me if it for real, or just some more junk that floats around on the
internet.
Bill
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:37 AM
Subject: SCARY STUFF: ANTI-SEMITISM
I usually don't pass on e-mails, but this is something that really seems to be
neglected in the mainstream media. It was from a friend whose relative lives
in France. I don't particularly advocate the "boycotting" but it might be
useful for a lot of people to contact their elected officials, local papers,
national media outlets, etc. to request that this situation be given more
attention. With everything else going on in the world, this situation seems to
have gotten lost under the radar screen.
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:32:59 -0400
I AM A JEW --
Nowhere have the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France:
In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the
Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and
Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in Creteil.
A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on
the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew" were painted.
In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and
metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has
been attacked three times in the last 14 months.
According to the police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish
incidents per day since Easter. Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been
defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas chambers" and "Death to the
Jews."
The weekly journal Le Nouvel Observateur published an appalling libel: It said
Israeli soldiers rape Palestinian women, so that their relatives will kill them
to preserve "family honor."
The French ambassador to Great Britain was not sacked -- and did not apologize
-- when it was learned that he had told guests at a London dinner that the
world's troubles were the fault of "...that shitty little country, Israel."
"At the start of the 21st century," writes Pierre-Andre Taguieff, a well-known
social scientist, in a new book, "we are discovering that Jews are once again
select targets of violence. . . Hatred of the Jews has returned to France." But
of course, it never left. Not France; not Europe.
Anti-Semitism, the oldest bigotry known to man, has been a part of European
society since time immemorial. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, open
Jew-hatred became unfashionable; but fashions change, and Europe is reverting
to type.
To be sure, some Europeans are shocked by the re-emergence of Jew-hatred all
over their continent. But the more common reaction has been complacency.
"Stop saying that there is anti-Semitism in France," President Jacques Chirac
scolded a Jewish editor in January. "There is no anti-Semitism in France."
French Anti-Semitism: "Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and
disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy
full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless." Franz Grillparzer
(1791-1872), Austrian author.
A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher)
in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20s were beaten up by five men
in Villeurbanne, France. The woman was pregnant; a Jewish school was broken
into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France. This was in the past week.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, from September 9, 2000, at the start
of the intifada, through November 20, 2001, there were some 330 acts of
anti-Semitism just in and around Paris. In addition to literally scores of
firebombing of synagogues, just before Rosh Hashanah, 200 Arabs attacked Jews
on the Champs Elysees. The pace has only picked up since then: In December, a
French cinema in Paris refused to allow a Hanukah showing of Harry Potter to
800 Jewish children because of French-Palestinian threats (the threats were
confirmed by French police who then went on to do nothing, not even giving
details). It was one incident in an eventful month when synagogues continued to
be firebombed and a Jewish kindergarten was vandalized with anti-Semitic
graffiti and set ablaze.
What can explain the sometimes muted, sometimes defensively outraged reaction
of French officials? Simple. There are approximately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000
Muslims presently living in France and many more arrive daily. There are only
about 600,000 Jews still living in France. Moreover, France is the number one
European exporter to Iraq, totaling over two billion dollars per year in
exports since 2000. To those who are at a loss to explain why French elected
officials seem "helpless" to stem the tide of anti-Semitism, I say that
something smells awfully Vichy around here.
So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a person
with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity, to do, at
least, these three simple things:
First, care enough to stay informed. Don't ever let yourself become deluded
into thinking that this is not your fight.
Second, boycott France. Only the Arab countries are more toxically anti-Semitic
and, unlike them, France exports more than just oil and hatred. So boycott
their wines and their perfumes. Boycott their clothes and their foodstuffs.
Boycott their movies. Definitely boycott their shores. If we are resolved we
can exert amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know about the French, we
most certainly know that they are as a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of
well directed pressure.
Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your co-workers.
Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let them know
that you and the people that you care about need their help.
The number one best selling book in France is "September 11: The Frightening
Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon. Our only strength
is the strength of our community and there can be no community without
communication. This is really scary stuff.
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