“There were friendships before” — before the start of the intifada in Israel 22 years ago, before 9-11, Ginette says. Jews would shop in markets alongside Arabs, who also have roots in northern Africa. Then “sporadic attacks” started. Ginette was roughed up twice. The couple’s car was damaged. Their son was attacked “many, many times,” his kipa knocked off his head.Will the French bureaucracy wake up? France's minister of education, Luc Ferry, claims to be willing to denounce anti-semitism when he sees it. We're waiting to hear from you, Luc.
Then, on Yom Kippur eve, two weeks after 9-11, a car drove by the synagogue and Molotov cocktails were thrown through the synagogue’s front door. There were no injuries. In the August 2002 attack, as the Arab violence in Israel escalated, two unidentified youths broke into the building’s basement one night and set it ablaze. Again, no injuries, but the basement was destroyed.
Meanwhile, EU parlimentarian Francois Zimeray continues to conduct a lonely but successful battle to investigate Chris Patton's blank check to Arafat and his PA .
UPDATE: Paris mayor condemns latest attack on Jews. A commentor points out that "Mayor Delanoe was himself stabbed with a knife last October by a man the Paris police described as a "39-year-old devout muslim".The attacker was thought to have been incensed by Delanoe's homosexuality."
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