Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003
France Is Too Hateful for Jews to Wear Yarmulkes
Recently we were reading Baroness Orczy's thrilling novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and marveled at passages that described the longtime vicious anti-Semitism of the hate-filled French. Some things never change.
Because the frogs have become so violent in their bigotry (and because frog politicians are as eager to pander to France's surging Arab population as U.S. pols are to pander to America's surging population of Latino illegal aliens), France's chief rabbi now says Jewish men should wear baseball caps instead of yarmulkes in public.
Prompted by an arson attack on a Jewish school last weekend, Rabbi Joseph Sitruk told Radio J, "I ask young Jews to be alert, to avoid walking alone, to avoid wearing the yarmulke in the street or in the subway and consequently becoming targets for potential assailants."
In an interview Monday with Radio Shalom, he said, "I ask them to replace the yarmulke with the baseball cap. It hurts me" to make such a recommendation. "But I say that to protect our young people."
The Paris office of International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism said Tuesday that it had received a letter containing a bullet and a note reading "Jews get out, the next [bullet] won't come through the mail."
Ah, those French "peaceniks."
Editor's note:
France Is Too Hateful for Jews to Wear Yarmulkes
Recently we were reading Baroness Orczy's thrilling novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and marveled at passages that described the longtime vicious anti-Semitism of the hate-filled French. Some things never change.
Because the frogs have become so violent in their bigotry (and because frog politicians are as eager to pander to France's surging Arab population as U.S. pols are to pander to America's surging population of Latino illegal aliens), France's chief rabbi now says Jewish men should wear baseball caps instead of yarmulkes in public.
Prompted by an arson attack on a Jewish school last weekend, Rabbi Joseph Sitruk told Radio J, "I ask young Jews to be alert, to avoid walking alone, to avoid wearing the yarmulke in the street or in the subway and consequently becoming targets for potential assailants."
In an interview Monday with Radio Shalom, he said, "I ask them to replace the yarmulke with the baseball cap. It hurts me" to make such a recommendation. "But I say that to protect our young people."
The Paris office of International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism said Tuesday that it had received a letter containing a bullet and a note reading "Jews get out, the next [bullet] won't come through the mail."
Ah, those French "peaceniks."
Editor's note:
