I think we have a LePen fan here.

Excuse me?

Comment #6 by Violette links to the politically-correct left-wing Liberation.

Comment #12 by Violette links to the politically-correct left-wing Sydney Morning Herald.

France’s universities, media, state bureaucracy, and opposition party are run by the Left. When Jose “Mr Antiglobalista” Bove made kissy-face with the Islamofascists a couple years ago, he was just following more than three decades of Left-wing anti-Israel party line to its obnoxious conclusion.

Whoever hates capitalism will hate America, and whoever hates America will hate Israel. The politically-correct Left-wing is your real enemy.

BTW Love your blog, Keep up the good work!!

Today’s International Herald Tribune article confirms that many of the people in the building where Ilan was being held and tortured knew that he was there, and that he was a Jew. And did nothing.

Go peddle your Jew-hating conspiracies somewhere else. You’re done here.

Where do you live ? Sarcelles ? I wouldn’t go there myself.

By the way, it seems the story about Ilan’s kidnappers reading Coran verses to the Halimi family is yet another lie.

There are definite efforts afoot to smear the Muslim community.

Actually, no. I have agitated against Le Pen for years.

There has been several such hoaxes in France, that’s why people are now checking their facts before screaming anti-semitism. For instance:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/31/1093852185996.html

I said only 25% of the gang’s targets were Jewish because they have been linked now to other extorsion rackets, targetting CEOs at one point then doctors.

Look, I am sure there are anti-semites in France, but this media campaign in the last few years is getting irritating. It is thought the reason is that France is the country with the largest Jewish population after Israel and the US, and Tel-Aviv wants them to emigrate to Israel because of their demographic problem, and also painting Europe in general and France in particular as Jew-hating delegitimates their efforts in the Quartet to solve the palestinian issue.

If you are talking about the famous hoax where the woman claimed that anti-Semites carved a swastika in her, let me remind you that she was not Jewish.

And let me also point out that I spent over two hours researching the case for my contribution to the podcast last night. Your facts are incorrect. The gang tried to kidnap six others, four of whom were Jewish. The gang said they chose Ilan Halimi because he was Jewish, and “all Jews are rich.”

There is plenty of anti-Semitism in the Halimi case.

There seems to be some around here as well.

Your prejudice is showing.

No. Seems the gang was quite representative of the ethnic mix of these banlieues. Some sub-saharan africans, a girl with an Iranian background, a Franco-Portuguese, several “traditional” French, etc…

“A guy works in a cell-phone store and they think he’s wealthy?”

It appears the guy was first noticed by the gang in an upscale night-club.

I fully agree the Jewish people in Europe have good reason to be a bit paranoid, although Ilan Halimi’s family was from Morocco and only moved here 25 years ago, but there was a succession of such cases when alleged anti-semitism outrages turned out to be nothing of the kind, remember the story of the boy who cried wolf.