A few weeks ago, when French Jewish actor Elie Semoun was
a prime-time guest on one of the main French television channels, Canal Plus,
the words of Sebastian Thoen, a standup comedian who introduced him may have
been meant to be to be laudatory, but took quite a different turn: "You
never plunged into communitarianism [Jewish activism] ... You could have posted
yourself in the street selling jeans and diamonds from the back of a minivan,
saying 'Israel is always right, f*** Palestine, wallala.' You show that
it is possible to be of the Jewish faith without being completely
disgusting.
Semoun was obviously ill-at-ease, but did not react. A
couple hours after the show, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions
of France (CRIF) issued a statement
denouncing a "dangerous trivialization of anti-Semitism." The
President of the TV channel responded by saying that the Jewish community had
"no sense of humor." The incident occurred, however, in a context
where the French Jewish community has no reason to have a sense of humor.
At the end of 2012, Jewish France was republished. The
book is a tirade of extreme anti-Semitism, originally published in 1886 by the
author Edouard Drumont, and reprinted repeatedly until after World War II and
the fall of the Vichy regime…...Seven decades after Auschwitz, the oldest hatred is slowly regaining its place on the continent, and it is no laughing matter...…To Read More…
My Take - Another reason why the EU is doomed. Its level of self righteous, and arrogant hypocrisy! Leftists slugs are the same the world over. Here we call them 'journalists'.
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