Below is a very disturbing video of the responses that Zvika Klein, a reporter for Jewish news outlet NRG, received when he walked through streets of Paris wearing a yarmulke and a tzitzit (knotted ritual tassels). The video shows the level of anti-Semitism even in our capital cities around the world.
Klein walked around with a bodyguard while a photographer filmed him with a camera hidden in a backpack.
They film as Klein is called a “dog” and even spat at by people walking by. He walked through Jewish neighborhoods, around the Eiffel Tower, but mostly went through Muslim neighborhoods. He was surprised to receive “belligerent remarks” even in tourist areas, though on the whole they were much better than the Muslim or Arab neighborhoods.
Some comments were particularly shocking like a young boy asking “What is he doing here Mommy? Doesn’t he know he will be killed?”
In truth, I expect that Muslims wearing religious grab face the same type of commentary and attacks in some areas. However, the film captures the deep and growing divide on religion around the world, including the West.
I understand, but getting rid of hate crime laws would be a small but good start toward getting rid of the idea that some are more equal than others.
Bailers, that’s not the problem here.
Pogo,
We need to get rid of the hate crime laws no matter who is being targeted.
2/14/2015:
“Thirty homes on the far west side of Madison, Wisconsin, were vandalized Friday night, spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and “F*** Jews,” obscene drawings, and KKK references.“
Meanwhile, in lefty liberal Madison, Wisconsin:
“Anti-Semitic and racial slurs and swastikas were spray painted on at least 30 homes in Madison, Wisc.
The graffiti attack occurred late Friday night and early Saturday morning, Madison police told local media. The graffiti was found on homes, cars, garage doors, mailboxes, and driveways. Total damage is estimated at more than $10,000.
One of the properties vandalized belongs to Jim Stein, the president of the Jewish Federation of Madison, WSAU-Wheeler News reported.
Police have not called the attack a hate crime.
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Meanwhile, in lefty liberal Madison, Wisconsin:
“Anti-Semitic and racial slurs and swastikas were spray painted on at least 30 homes in Madison, Wisc.
The graffiti attack occurred late Friday night and early Saturday morning, Madison police told local media. The graffiti was found on homes, cars, garage doors, mailboxes, and driveways. Total damage is estimated at more than $10,000.
One of the properties vandalized belongs to Jim Stein, the president of the Jewish Federation of Madison, WSAU-Wheeler News reported.
Police have not called the attack a hate crime.
Read here and here.
Jews in France need to make aliya.
Wonder how many of these Muslim guys would hit on an undercover cop posing as prostitute sting in Paris? Then get good defense lawyer and fight back.
Prof Turley, I used to believe that you were pretty fair and balanced (no pun intended) in your blogs; but after seeing this the way you lead into it…it is a very biased and incomplete view, intended to inflame your readers. At the least you should have provided a more complete link, since I do believe you are entitled to your opinions.
This video clip is edited from about 10 hours of recorded video…The BBC article is more complete…to quote :”The footage was gathered over 10 hours at the beginning of February, says Klein, and edited down into a clip lasting just over 90 seconds.” ….”It’s impossible for us to verify Klein’s video, and like other “10 hours in…” videos there has been a large amount of editing – which critics say conveys a false impression.”
“So are Jewish people confronted with this kind of abuse throughout the city? No, not everywhere, Klein tells BBC Trending. In its more famous neighbourhoods – around the Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower – he saw “a little bit, but nothing worth putting in the video”. “As we went to the suburbs, or certain neighbourhoods in the city, the remarks became more violent,” he says. ” NOTE, but nothing worth putting on the video!!
Finally,: ” “I did think that there might be some violence, but there was none,” he says. In fact some locals spoke out in his defence when heckled, and there was a friendly conversation as well, but these were not filmed and included in the video. ” Again, NOTE: …..and included in the video!!!!
Klein had an agenda and you fell for it!
the link is here: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-31491723
Doglover,
You are doing a disservice to dogs. You should tuck your tail after that comment.
Doglover-You’re trolling, right?? If so, well played.
If not, Congratulations! You’ve managed to write one of the dumbest things I have ever read on the Internet.
Doglover: Were you in that video?
“it’s curious that Christian evangelicals don’t wear a designated costume to advertise their perceived superiority to everyone else.”
Suggesting your premise is entirely wrong.
doglover, Wow, your true colors really came out on that comment.
Wearing religious garb in a mixed society is the same as carrying a sign that says, “I’m better than you are because my religion is the right one and yours is evil.” it’s curious that Christian evangelicals don’t wear a designated costume to advertise their perceived superiority to everyone else.
A lot of Muslim hate in that Paris spy video. Hope video is seen by Mayor of Paris and police.
Tolerance will be the death of western civilization.
“But large-scale migration out of Europe is something not seen since the 1950s. In France, the nation with the largest Jewish population outside Israel and the United States, the outflow of Jews doubled in 2014, to 7,000, from the year before. The Jewish Agency is now drawing up plans to attract 120,000 more to Israel.”
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jewish-651163-jews-israel.html
In contrast, Muslims are immigrating to France, not leaving.
This argues against any significant harassment of Muslims.
“This estimate would imply that the Muslim population of France is now approximately 10% of the country’s total population of around 66 million. In real terms, France has the largest Muslim population in the European Union.
On January 1, 2013, Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced that a total of 1,193 cars and trucks were torched across France on New Year’s Eve. He also said he was “shocked” by an RTL Radio report which estimated that more than 40,000 cars are burned in France every year.”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4120/islamization-france
Anti semitism is a nasty habit in Europe that we all hoped had been eradicated after the WWII. Unfortunately the influx of Muslims who loudly proclaim their right to be tolerated in all things has added an even more virulent form of the disease.
“In truth, I expect that Muslims wearing religious grab face the same type of commentary and attacks in some areas.”
Really? I have seen little evidence of that.
In the US, people bend over backwards not to cause offense to them.
Paris is burning.
Time for the Jews to leave. Again.
The Muslims will then slowly do the same to the Westerners, starting with the women.
They’re not immigrants, they’re occupiers.