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~~Tens of thousands~~ 105,000 march in Paris against antisemitism, including political parties

2023-11-13

[IsraelTimes] Tens of thousands of people march in Gay Paree at a rally against antisemitism that is being led by the heads of the lower and upper houses of the French parliament and two former presidents.

Marching at the head of the event are Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the French National Assembly, whose father is Jewish, and Gérard Larcher, president of the Senate, who initiated the event following the proliferation of anti-Jewish assaults in La Belle France following Hamas
Hamas

...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
’s onslaught against Israel on October 7 and the ensuing war.

Politicians and political parties from across the spectrum are participating in the march, ranging from the Socialist Party of former president Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
, who is marching, to The Republicans of his right-wing predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
, who is also attending.

Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Rally is marching, but the far-left party of Jean-Luc Melenchon, La La Belle France Insoumise, is boycotting the event, calling it a reunion of "friends of unconditional support for the massacre" of Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, as he describes it.

Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip following the October 7 onslaught, in which about 3,000 Hamas Lions of Islam killed some 1,200 people, has resulted in the death of more than 10,000 people in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas officials in the enclave. The figure cannot be verified and is questioned by Israel and others.

Unverified and unverifiable — how many human shields and jihadis together are dead underneath buildings and in tunnels?

President Emmanuel Macron, who has condemned both antisemitism and anti-Zionism, is not attending, but he says in a statement that he "respectfully welcomes the those who march for the Republic, against antisemitism and for the liberation of the hostages."

His absence is widely understood to be part of an attempt at a more balanced approach toward Israel, which Macron visited last month on a solidarity visit in which he offered to help Israel defeat Hamas. Macron is not attending because "it’s too late and too partisan," Christophe Barbier, a former editor of l’Epxress daily, says on BFMTV about the march. "We’re a month after the tragedy of October 7, we’re past the emotional stage, we’re in the political one," Barbier says.

The Israelis say the war may take as long as a year, so there’s plenty of time for his excellency, President Macron to cycle through emotion again.

Earlier today, Macron called President Isaac Herzog to say he does not believe Israel is targeting civilians and that he recognizes its right to defend itself, in a clarification on his remarks to BBC Saturday in which he said: "Civilians are bombed — de facto. These babies, these ladies, these old people are bombed and killed. So there is no reason for that and no legitimacy. So we do urge Israel to stop."

The 1,000 antisemitic incidents that have been recorded in La Belle France over the past four weeks surpass the annual tally for such cases recorded in the whole of 2022, Braun-Pivet and Larcher wrote in an op-ed published last week announcing the march.

"Fear is setting in and threatens to become a daily reality unless we act," they wrote.

Update from the Times of Israel at 1:00 a.m. ET:

More than 180,000 people turned out on Sunday to march against antisemitism in France, after a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Police said 105,000 people had joined the Paris march, while interior ministry figures put the nationwide figure at 182,000. Thousands of people gathered at more than 70 events across the country, including in major cities Lyon, Nice and Strasbourg.

The same slogan was adopted nationally: “For the Republic, against antisemitism.”

Family members of some of the 40 French citizens killed in the initial Hamas onslaught, and of those missing or held hostage, also took part in the march.

France has recorded nearly 1,250 antisemitic acts since the attack.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 ^😊

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-13 01:53

#2 Sure, But it’s France — marches and protests are their raison d’être. Enforcing the law gets in the way of that.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-11-13 01:44

#1 Instead of counter-marching, wouldn't it have been better to tell police to enforce the law?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-13 01:40

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