Thursday, June 8, 2006
Nidra Poller describes an absolutely astounding series of events in Paris that certainly remind one of what may have played out on the stage in the early warning days of the 1930's. When I saw Poller speak some weeks ago, an audience member asked if this is what it was like in the 1930's in France. Another astute audience member replied that no, it's not like the 1930's, because now there's a place called Israel. We'd better make sure it stays that way. Read this in full, but here are some choice snips (via Kesher Talk).
The Wrath of Ka - Black anti-Semites storm Paris’s old Jewish quarter
...Eyewitnesses concur about the incursion: 30 men in paramilitary formation stormed into rue des Rosiers, shouting threats and insults against Jews. Some wore boxer’s mouthpieces and leather gloves with brass knuckles. They burned with anger and itched for a fight. Frantic calls to the police met with laconic replies: “Yes, we have been informed.”...
...Men, women, and children felt totally defenseless, delivered up to a storm of uncontrollable rage. Some witnesses report seeing baseball bats, sticks, knives; others suspected their presence under thick black jackets; all believed that these men were capable of committing a massacre. The police did not come until the militia had left. They did collar some members of the group later, close to their Belleville headquarters; they questioned and released them...
...Outside the ORT school, where the minister met with residents, a dapper gray-haired shop owner said, with dignified regret, “It’s over for Jews in France.” And added, “The police told me . . . they said it’s over for us . . . they can’t handle this problem. . . . It’s too late.”
