Catherine Ashton is the lowest of the low. She equated the accidental killing of civilians in Gaza, who are killed because terrorists fire their rockets near schools, hospitals, and homes, with the deliberate murder of children by French neo-Nazis. I would say she can’t sink any lower, but of course, she can, and she will. Meanwhile, the French president calls it what it is: A horrible anti-Semitic attack designed to murder Jews.
Meantime, I couldn’t help but notice the AP doing its usual dance when it comes to Jewish issues. For instance:
Monday’s attack revolted France, where school shootings and deadly attacks on Jews are extremely rare, and drew strong condemnation from Israel and the United States.
Why that phrase? Because the AP was also running an article about how rampant anti-Semitism is in France, and they had to push the narrative somewhere. You know, the one that minimizes harm to Jews or Israelis. Here’s the lead:
The number of anti-Semitic acts reported in France last year fell, but there’s still a hotline staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week to report such incidents in the country.
Jews in France for the most part live in safety and participate freely in French public life, and most anti-Semitic acts target property and not people. But the existence of the hotline speaks to the fact that anti-Semitism often lurks just below the surface.
And here is the fourth paragraph. Note the narrative insertion. I don’t think I need to bold it.
Jewish graves — and Muslim ones — are frequently desecrated; the prime minister recently suggested that kosher slaughter was out of sync with modern times; and just last week, threatening letters were sent to two synagogues in Paris, including one that called Jews “Satan” and warned they would go to Hell.
You know what’s missing from the lead of the original story on the shootings? The words “anti-Semitic attack”. Always, the minimizing of threats to Jews. That seems to be AP style. No, check that: It’s business as usual when it comes to the world. Take another look at what’s buried in the above paragraph:
… the prime minister recently suggested that kosher slaughter was out of sync with modern times..
It’s Sarkozy pandering to the Le Pen far right who, I might add, are the neo-Nazi wing of French politics. And it’s not just him doing the pandering. (And he didn’t just “suggest that kosher slaughter was out of sync”. He said straight out that kosher and halal meats should be labeled according to the way the animals were slaughtered. It’s a slap against Jews and Muslims for the Le Pen right.)
But back to the attack: Just when you thought it couldn’t get any sicker–I won’t repeat the details that make me want to kill the attacker myself–we find out he may have had a camera around his neck to film it. He probably thinks he won’t be caught when he uploads the video to neo-Nazi sites. He will be mistaken.
I repeat: Bastards.