ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS IN FRANCE: Nidra Poller writes for Pajamas Media about the anti-Semitic tone of Royal's ads against Sarkozy in the run-off for president of France between Ségolène Royal (Socialist) or Nicolas Sarkozy (conservative). In that context, she mentions recent attacks:

Several particularly serious anti-Semitic incidents have been reported in the past few weeks. A 22 year old student whose mother is Jewish and father is Antillais was accosted by two Beurs [French of Arab-Muslim origin] on a metro parking lot in Marseille. Thinking she was Muslim, because of her ethnic appearance, they asked her why she was wearing that diabolical sign around her neck. It was the Hebrew word “hai” meaning life. When she explained that she is Jewish, they manhandled her, threatened her with a knife, cut open her t-shirt, marked a swastiska between her breasts, cut off her hair and, for good measure, stole her cell phone. Elsewhere, a driver deliberately tried to run over a Jewish teenager. In Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, a Jewish man wearing a kippa was stabbed in the back.

Fofana, leader of the Gang of Barbarians that held a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, hostage for three weeks and tortured him to death, sent anti-Semitic letters to the Halimi family’s lawyer, Maître Szpiner, and his associate. (Maître Szpiner, Jacques Chirac’s personal lawyer, represented the rector of the Paris mosque in the lawsuit against Charlie Hebdo). Kemi Saba, leader of the Ka Tribe that marched into the rue des Rosiers in the old Jewish quarter of Paris last year, was tried this week in Chartres for anti-Semitic insults and death threats against policemen who tried to prevent him from holding an unauthorized rally. Forty of his goons were in court, boisterous and defiant. He mumbled threats and insults against the lawyer of one of the plaintiffs.

As Ségolène Royal is wont to say, “tout se tient,” it all holds together. Attacks against Jews, policemen, public buildings, private property, election posters, and the soon-to-be president. It all holds together: demonization of a political leader who promises to protect the population from predators, demonization of an American president who goes to war against global jihad, and glorification of thugs, terrorists, shahids, and tyrants.

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