Shattered glass, a handful of burned out businesses and the presence of dozens of riot police were the clues pointing to the destruction left behind by a mob of pro-Palestinian protesters who turned on the Jewish community in the northern Parisian suburb of Sarcelles on Sunday. What began as a protest against Israel’s bombing and ground offensive in Gaza quickly turned into a rampage with the so-called "Little Jerusalem" neighborhood in working class Sarcelles the number one target for rioters. The town is one of the centres of France’s Jewish population, which at some 500,000 is the third largest in the world behind Israel and the United States. As well as cars and bins being set ablaze several Jewish business were torched, including the Naouri kosher market which was the target of a flash-bang grenade attack in 2012, rioters also tried to approach a synagogue, before being repelled by riot police. There were also unconfirmed reports of a petrol bomb being thrown against the building. As they rampaged through Sarcelles rioters cries of "Israel murderers!" and "Hitler for president!" could be heard. "For the French government Sunday's violence was pure anti-Semitism. Attacking a synagogue, a kosher supermarket, it's simply anti-Semitism, racism," said PM Manuel Valls. The riot was the third time in eight days a pro-Palestinian demo has degenerated into violence. The first demo on July 13th saw protesters attempt to storm two synagogues in Paris, before being beaten back, by riot police and Jewish militants. “We’ve been thinking about moving to Israel for some time now,” Daniel Ullmann, 58, a teacher told The Local. “There is a part of France that is very xenophobic. There’s a part of the population that has no liking for foreigners.” As he spoke to The Local a passerby shouted at him: “Go back to Israel!”, which drew only a sad shrug and knowing grimace from Ullmann. "We don't know if they are coming back. The troublemakers sleep during the day, We'll find out tonight." Some observers in Sarcelles told The Local the anti-Semitic violence in France is being fanned by the country’s dire economic situation - with unemployment rates among young people hovering at 25 percent - as well as by Islamists. “It’s young people, who’ve got no work and aren’t in school, they are the ones being manipulated into this kind of violence,” said journalist André Nahum a long-time member of the Sarcelles Jewish community. “It’s Islamists who are at the source of these problems, not just here, but around the world.” He said leaving Sarcelles for Israel or elsewhere isn’t a solution because the problem is global. “You stay, you fight,” Nahum said. “Otherwise you are just handing the country over to them.” The anger the deaths in Gaza has provoked among the Muslim population in Paris’s suburbs cannot be overestimated, but in Sarcelles a Muslim man who would give only his name as Jamel said Sunday's attacks were wrong and were not perpetrated by local Muslims, who he says get along with the Jewish community. It’s scary. We live in a civilized country,” he said while standing outside the remains of a pharmacy that was torched in the riots. “But it’s wrong, it’s wrong for kids to be killed by Israel. What are they going to do against the Israeli army? Throw rocks at them?” In May The Local reported that figures revealed 2014 could see a record number of Jews in France leaving for Israel. Full Article: http://www.thelocal.fr/20140721/france-anti-semitism-violence-palestinian http://i.imgur.com/LpDqQPa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/c6UhC9E.jpg
World War 3 is coming.
