Three young Jewish men were hospitalized after being attacked by French “youths.”
Three Jewish youths on their way to the Paris branch of the Bnei Akiva movement were attacked by a group of teens on Saturday, a short while before the end of the Sabbath. The three youths were hospitalized for a day due to the facial fractions caused by stones that were thrown at them by the attackers.
The boys were walking through Paris’ 19th Arrondissement, home to 20,000 of the French capital’s Jews. Raphi Zeush, a Jewish Agency and Bnei Akiva envoy to the city told Ynet, “Five Muslim and African youths came and threw chestnuts and cobblestones at them.
“One of the Jewish boys asked them to stop, and the French teens started cursing at him. He responded with curses and they called their friends. Another 10 teens came, some of them wielding brass knuckles, and a fight broke out.”
Raphael Haddad, the student group’s president, said that one of the Jewish youths suffered a broken nose and another a fractured cheekbone, while all three had considerable contusions.
But it’s not anti-Semitism. It’s anti-Zionism.
And oh yeah, France doesn’t have an anti-Semitism problem.
French Jews need to establish some boundaries with these thugs. Namely if the gov’t won’t respond they need to form their own JDL.
Go bust some heads and the bullies will start thinking twice about attacking them.
The assailants are just high-spsirited youths who sometimes get a bit out of hand. Boys will be boys, after all…they could have had names like Louis, Pierre, and Francois. Just coincidence that, I’ll bet, all of them had names like Jamal, Mohammed, and Ali.
Anyone else noticed that the thugs seem to time their attacks to occur on Shabbos? That makes JDL-style resistance more difficult.
“A fight broke out.” Is that what you call it when 15 people with weapons attack three people who are unarmed?
Oh, right, they must have tried to fight back.