French President Chirac urges vigilance against anti-Semitism

Don't waste your time painting me as an anti-semite. I let this forum know quite awhile back that I couldn't care less one way or the other. If you can adduce some historical proof that the ADL was organized specifically to fight the KKK, then I will certainly reference it. Meanwhile, as I said, drop the antisemite nonsense. It makes no impact upon me whatsoever.

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Hollingworth as usual arranges facts to his antisemitic purposes. Dont expect him to acknowledge that. Maybe he should reread the history of ADL and the KKK and clarify some facts to himself.In the process he might even understaqnd the sources of his Jew dislike.His neurons r in disorder

The Imans are encouraging this behaviour. Muslim children in Lyon stoned a girl last week because she was eating a snack on Ramadan.

You are damn right. Jews are leaving France by the droves. Not being Jewish, people make snide remarks as normal conversation. I didn't attend a special antique dealers collective annual dinner party last year because it was raining, and if a cab wasn't available I would have needed to walk through a very dangerous area. Guess who lives there. So it is not just Jews, but everyone who resists being killed or converted to Islam So hang in there! A Catholic friend of mine from Lille, is moving, and his family has lived there as long as records have been kept, because the Islamists are making his life miserable. He didn't love Jews before, but now tells me he understands what the conflict in Israel is all about. He will be visiting me in Toronto next week. I am anxious for an update from his perspective.

Love the anti-semites who come here and say they are going to hate Israel more, or more pssd off. You have so much hate that you couldn't hate more if you tried (you might implode). I was censored the other night so I will put my response more gently. You lived with the Palestinians and raved about these good people (as opposed to all Jews who have horns". Did you berate or congratulate the homocide bombers, and throw many candies?

I challenge JJDoyle's explanation for the ADL's original formation. The ADL was a newly formed legal arm of B'nai B'rith, raised up on short notice for the express purpose, I believe, of trying to gaom exoneration posthumously for the Jew Leo Frank, who was convicted of murdering little Mary Phagan in Marrieta, GA. The KKK came into existence at about the same time or shortly thereafter in 1913; but in no way do I believe it can be asserted that the former was raised up to fight the latter. It may have done so later on, but that was not the reason its creation in the beginning.

The ADL was founded to fight the Ku Klux Klan. It is not a Zionist organization. It is a Jewish organization. When the ADL was founded, there were more KKK members than Jews in the US. The ADL-NAACP alliance chased the KKK for 40 years, and won. No surprise that the Arabs and their supporters are on the side of the KKK. No surprise at all.

What would you call the Ilan Halimi case?????????????

doesn't see those as being specific attacks on JEWS In his opinion it's mere coincidence that the VICTIMS were all JEWISH. I mean really Peter you have been around here a while. You surely don't take Yankele's drivel seriously do you. Next you'll be believing that the comments of the likes of marilyn, melanie, prickfool, sullivan, maureen ann, steve murray, etc are those of sane, rational, educated people & not merely the rantings of the unwashed masses

Mr Chirac should take personal responsabilty for the growing antisemitism in his country. Him and his governement have trashed the state of Israel in such a way since the second antifada that people find it totally legitimate to act and think the way they do. History will for sure remember him for all the wrong he did.

In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in Creteil - all recently. A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris , the words "Dirty Jew" were painted. In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish footbal team with sticks and metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months. According to the Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days. Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews." A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20s were beaten up.

The truth indeed IS that France is not able to provide security to its "French Jews". There are stupid people all over the Earth, but France is the country where the highest number of problems against the jewish community occured. How could you forget that ? Maybe YOU live in a high standard of living. You forget the others, I promise you. How many youngs use their time to train to protect the uwish community ? Please don't speak in the name of all he French Jews, because it seems that you don't really know what it means...

Look at him, he doesn't even look semitic...Well does he? When you think about it, isn't Foxman himself partly responsible for the apparent rise in this new so-called "anti-semitism"? I mean when I hear him spout off I start feel resentful and a little pissed off. Your opinion?

I wish to remind you facts and NOT tales about France. French jews (and NOT "Jews from France") live on a very high standard here. I NEVER had any problems with my friends, I NEVER felt insecured, I NEVER heard any antisemitic phrase, except from the usual marginal stupid people you find everywhere in the world. Major "antisemitic" incidents where : 1- RER D affair : from a stupid non jewish, paranoiac young girl, 2- Jewish school burning for insurance purposes..., 3- antisemitic tags was a provocation from a jewish imbecile (that happen with all these ?mongolians? children from inter-marriages?). Please tell the truth and NOT tales. Thank you for publishing me.

Who made the big-mouth self-proclaimed representative of the Jewish People Abe Foxman the high priest of Anti-Semitism? It's ridiculous. I cannot begin to fathom what Chirac had in mind with this. Foxman's job is to find a gas chamber under every bed.

"Today, hatred of others is spreading like a poison in the heart of our societies and across our borders," Chirac said. "We must remain vigilant and fight tirelessly against the resurgence of this horrible beast." Any idea about who was President Chirac thinking about ?

... but would have been more so if Chirac wouldn't be all too conscious of Foxman's "radar" while dispensing the little shining pieces of metal that for the two cranks stand for the stable currency of honour.

"Chirac spoke at a Paris ceremony conferring the French Legion of Honor medal on Abraham Foxman" The French Legion of Honor medal has lost all meaning. Associating Abe Foxman with anything honorable is an unachievable stretch.