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| Jewish-run soup kitchen burned in Paris |
| 2004-08-22 |
| French President Jacques Chirac has condemned an attack on a Jewish-run soup kitchen in Paris. Swastikas were daubed on the walls of the kitchen which was then set alight in the early hours of Sunday morning. It was the latest in a string of similar attacks against the Jewish community that has been denounced by the French government. The soup kitchen, which provided food for the capital's needy and homeless, was gutted in the fire. In a statement, Mr Chirac underlined "the absolute determination of the state to find the perpetrators of these unacceptable acts". Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin visited the centre to examine the damage and promised to punish those responsible. A representative for the Jewish representative council in France told the AFP news agency that those who had defaced and damaged the centre had been motivated by Jewish hatred. The BBC's Allan Little in Paris says the reaction of two senior government figures is a measure of the level of concern about a rise in anti-Semitic actions and sentiment in the country. France is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe with some 800,000 people. According to figures from the interior ministry, the number of racist and anti-Semitic attacks soared in the first half of 2004. More than 300 graves have been defaced in the east of the country since April and in August vandals desecrated 60 graves at a Jewish cemetery in the city of Lyon. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #7 they ..THE NAZI should have done that to that scum of ysrael prime minister |
| Posted by: dacau forever 2004-08-23 3:34:37 AM |
| #6 C'est la triangulation. France is as much a US ally as Clinton was a republican. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-01 1:35:10 PM |
| #5 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: dacau forever TROLL 2004-08-23 3:34:37 AM |
| #4 This one hits home. My Grandfather was volunteering in a soup kitchen in Vienna at the time of the anschluss of Austria. A Nazi told him, "I will make sure you will sample you own soup" and then used the butt of a rifle to break his teeth. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-22 9:06:56 PM |
| #3 Hey! What's the big deal? It's not like they're really French...... most jews have been gone for 60 years. Oooooopsss. Apologies to the 183 million French who fought in the Underground. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-22 5:59:43 PM |
| #2 Meanwhile, French broadcast regulators vigorously denied that the new spate of anti-Semitism sweeping their nation had anything to do with al-Manar's broadcasting a thinly veiled rehash of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a 29-part series artfully retitled "Al-Shatat" ("The Diaspora"). "More recently, they watched uneasily as Hezbollah's television station, Al-Manar, broadcast the Syrian-produced series "Al-Shatat," ("The Diaspora"), a recounting of Jewish history from 1812 to 1948 in which sinister radical Zionists plot to bake matzo with the blood of Christian children. Everyone from newspaper pundits to the French Broadcasting Authority to the American Embassy in Lebanon voiced their disgust. Meanwhile, Lebanese publishers have issued new editions of "Mein Kampf" and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," both widely recognized as anti-Jewish propaganda." EMPHASIS ADDED In other news: French inaction has been seen as a victory for anti-Semitic factions throughout the Middle East and will probably be responsible for a 10% reduction in the number of lashes or amputations imposed in this Gallic nation once Sharia law is instituted. Hezbollah TV Scores Legal Win in France PARIS, August 21 (IslamOnline.net) - The ruling of the State Council, France's highest administrative tribunal, to grant the pro-Lebanese Hezbollah Movement Al-Manar channel a two-month respite to prove its non anti-Semitic attitude, was considered a virtual dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the channel, according to the Head of Arab Human Rights Commission in Paris.Haitham Manna' Saturday, August 21, described the ruling as a "triumph" over the pressures practiced by the "Zionist Lobby" against the Arab channel. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-08-22 5:25:03 PM |
| #1 I guess no matzas today |
| Posted by: dacau 2004-08-22 4:53:00 PM |