More Anti-Semitism

[Annie]

THE GUARDIAN

Excerpt:

More anti-Semitic vandalism in France

Associated Press
Tuesday August 10, 2004

Vandals painted around 60 tombstones with anti-Semitic graffiti in Lyon overnight, it emerged today, in the latest in a series of desecrations of cemeteries in France.
Swastikas and inscriptions evoking Adolf Hitler's name were painted on headstones in de la Mouche cemetery in the southern French city. The same burial site was desecrated by neo-nazi skinheads in 1992.

Richard Wertenschlag, Lyon's chief rabbi, told France Info radio that the vandalism was an affront to the Jewish community and to France's values. "How is it that after the Holocaust, someone can still attack Jews - even those who are dead - for the simple reason that they are Jews?" he said.

The vandalised graves were at the back of the cemetery, far from the guardian's house, and among its oldest tombs. A monument to Jewish second world war soldiers was also covered with graffiti.

Despite a series of government measures, anti-Semitic attacks have increased in recent years in France, frequently coinciding with rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

A recent report by the French interior ministry found 510 anti-Jewish acts or threats in the first six months of the year, compared with 593 for all of 2003. Two suspects confessed to scrawling Nazi graffiti in May on a memorial in north-east France to honour Jewish soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun in the first world war.

The issue was also highlighted recently by the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who said French Jews should emigrate to Israel and escape the "the wildest anti-Semitism".

 

[dilloduck]

not surprising with a population of skin-heads and growing Islamic population.

 

[William Joyce]

Diversity is Our Greatest Strength.

 

[drac]

Diversity is Our Greatest Strength.

i cannot believe you typed it

 

[Annie]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-france-antisemitism.html

August 22, 2004
Arsonists Set Fire to Parisian Jewish Soup Kitchen
By REUTERS

Filed at 7:56 a.m. ET

PARIS (Reuters) - Arsonists set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in central Paris early on Sunday morning and daubed Nazi symbols on the building, police said, in the latest anti-Semitic act in France.

No one was killed or injured in the attack on the kitchen which prepares food for the needy of Paris. President Jacques Chirac vowed to pursue those responsible and severely punish them.

It was the second anti-Semitic act in the French capital in about a week after vandals last Saturday drew a swastika and wrote ``death to the Jews'' on a low wall in front of Paris's Notre Dame cathedral early on Saturday.

A wave of such attacks have hit eastern France, with more than 300 tombs or graves desecrated since April -- many in Jewish cemeteries but also some Muslim and a few Christian graves.

``There's no doubt about the stupid and criminal motivations of those who burn down a soup kitchen while inscribing anti-Semitic graffiti,'' a spokesman for the Jewish representative council in France (CRIF) said.

``It's definitely Jewish hatred which inspires them. The CRIF asks the authorities to promptly arrest and sanction in an exemplary manner the perpetrators of this odious act which besmirches France,'' he added.

 

[Merlin1047]

The truly ironic thing about the French anti-semitism and the glorification of Hitler by these numbnuts is that Hitler hated and despised the French almost as much as he hated the Jews.

P.S. Kathianne, why DO you hate the French??? :teeth:

 

[Annie]

The truly ironic thing about the French anti-semitism and the glorification of Hitler by these numbnuts is that Hitler hated and despised the French almost as much as he hated the Jews.

P.S. Kathianne, why DO you hate the French??? :teeth:

:scratch: :whip3: :spank3: