Anti-semitism on the rise in France

The following account has come from a reliable source and lists a series of recent anti-semitic incidents in France which illustrates a continuing increase in anti-Jewish prejudice in that country.

first published 15/04/2010

Krystallnacht in Germany to place
on the anniversary of Martin Luther's birth

Ed preface: To give you an idea of what's going on in that country where there are now between 5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000 Jews Here is an e-mail that came from a Jew living in France .
Please read!

Will the world say nothing again -

as it did in Hitler's time?"

He writes:

"I am a Jew -- therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on all my e-mail lists. I will not sit back and do nothing. 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 - all recently

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 bar

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 in the past 30 days

Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming 'Jews to the gas chambers' and 'Death to the Jews.'

A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) inToulouse, France

A Jewish couple in their 20's 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 just in the past week 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.

Don't ever let yourself become deluded into thinking that this is not your fight. I remind you of what Pastor Neimollers said during World War II:

' First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.'

Anon, 15/04/2010