Why is it only the right-wing press that ever demonstrates any outrage over this sort of thing? Just asking. From the New York Times, March 7:
PARIS, March 6 — Three attacks against Jews over the weekend have added to anxiety that anti-Semitism is growing among a new generation of French citizens in the country’s immigrant-heavy, working-class neighborhoods.
The police said two young men, 17 and 18, were attacked late Friday by black and Arab youths in the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles, home to a large number of Jewish families. The attackers broke the nose of one victim, a rabbi’s son, and stole the cellphone of the other.
On Saturday, a 28-year-old Jewish man was beaten in the same suburb by youths who made anti-Semitic remarks. He suffered a dislocated shoulder. Four people are being questioned in the Saturday attack, the police said.
“Anti-Semitism is rising in our country,” Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a legislator representing Sarcelles, said after a meeting in which Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy spoke with the victims of the attacks.
France is still absorbing the torture and killing last month of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man.
His death has focused attention on a virulent anti-Semitism that has grown since the start of the Palestinians’ second intifada against Israel. Many of the youths in the country’s working-class neighborhoods are from Muslim families and have taken the Palestinian conflict onto the streets at home.
The police have increased patrols around synagogues in the suburbs north of Paris.
See our last post on France.
