Leo Rennert
Last
Saturday, 10 men wielding iron rods and hammers attacked three young
Jews wearing skullcaps in a town near Lyon, sending two of the victims
to the hospital, one with head injuries and the other with neck wounds.
The attackers are said to be a gang of North African Muslims, who
punctuated their vicious assaults with cries of "dirty Jews."
Last March 19, a Muslim radical, Mohammed Merah, killed three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Bad
as these brutal attacks against Jews are, they are but the tip of what
has become an all-too evident pattern of ever more frequent attacks
against Jews in France. And not too put too fine a point on them, many
of these attacks are perpetrated by Muslim hoodlums.
According
to a report issued Monday by the French Jewish community protection
service, the March massacre in Toulouse "triggered an explosion" of
anti-Semitic attacks. In the 10 days following the deadly massacre,
there were no fewer than 90 anti-Semitic incidents.
Data
compiled by the French Interior Ministry show that there were 148
anti-Semitic incidents in March and April, including 43 classified as
violent -- a huge jump over the 14 violent attacks recorded in the same
period last year.
Along
with violent attacks, there were 69 instances of anti-Semitic
intimidation and threats in March and 36 such incidents in April.
On
April 30, the last day covered by the report, a Jewish man and his
friend were assaulted by people who openly flaunted their
pro-Palestinian sentiments and promised to "exterminate" the Jews. The
Jewish man suffered internal bleeding.
French
government officials decry the rise in anti-Jewish attacks as going
counter to France's most basic values and pledge to take measures
against anti-Semitism. But one is left to wonder whether they are
prepared to go to the root of the problem when French Prime Minister
Jean-Marie Ayrault could summon only a plaint that the violent attack in
Villeneuve was a "serious case" of "unexplained violence."
Sadly
for France's Jews, such violence could be readily explained if
authorities only deigned to open their eyes. By not doing so, Jews in
France are left totally defenseless.
Leo Rennert is a former White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief of McClatchy Newspapers
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