Many words have been written, by many people, about how Muslims were going to suffer a backlash of discrimination and hate crimes after 9/11. This has been come true, after a fashion. There is a minority group, both here and in Europe, that is suffering a backlash of violent discrimination and hate crimes.You know, Jews being beaten up and synagogues vandalized in Michigan, Berkeley, Paris . . . . You know, all that anti-semitism that we imagine in our heads, that we exaggerate, that we are so thin-skinned about, that isn't really anti-semitism because it's not real anti-semitism unless we are actually on boxcars on the way to the death camps (which we exaggerated anyway). That anti-semitism.
But it's the Jews. And the backlash is isn't Americans attacking Muslims. It's Muslims and their supporters attacking Jews.
(Meryl also has some good news from that little country that so many of the world's self-regarding "activists" love to hate.)
UPDATE: Most recent fallout from French anti-semitism, with a discussion of the case. Another case:
. . . When Jérémy broke free from his tormentors in the shower, he ran for help to the teacher's lounge but none of the faculty rose from their chairs to help the disheveled and distraught boy. . . In a telephone interview [the director of the school] grew irritated when asked if the teachers had come to Jérémy's aide. "Don't ask me to remember what they did," he said. "I didn't want to treat it as an anti-Arab or anti-Jewish incident. I treated it as fighting."If you ever wondered what kind of people formed the Vichy government . . . .
After the incident, Jérémy and his parents filed a complaint with the police, but the boy was taunted repeatedly in the subsequent weeks by other Muslim students. Finally, Jérémy's mother sent a lengthy complaint in the notebook that every student carries to pass messages between parents and faculty, but the notebook was never returned and a new, blank one was sent home with her son instead.
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