I dagens Jerusalem Post kan man se at de franske jøder nu har danner en
deres eget selvforsvarsstyrke, som agerer som ekstra politi når
antisemitter {især islamiske indvardrere fra Nordafrika} går til angreb
på det jødiske samfund. det franske politi synes at acceptere det:
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The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
French Jews set up own defense league
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 14, 2006
When a wave of rioting erupted across France last fall, a Jewish youth
group swung into action to guard synagogues and community centers from
possible anti-Semitic spillover violence.
Many Jews feel that such a reflex is needed these days in France, home
to the largest population of both Jews and Muslims in western Europe and
sporadically simmering with tensions.
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was greeted with a red-carpet
welcome in Paris on Wednesday, he faced a France where anti-Semitic
attacks have tumbled from a high in 2004, despite several dramatic
incidents. Olmert called President Jacques Chirac "one of the world's
great fighters against anti-Semitism."
But others within the Jewish community also are keeping watch.
Formed in 2000, the Jewish Defense League - which has no ties to the
U.S. Jewish Defense League - groups about 100 to 150 Jewish teens and
young men to protect their community, experts say.
"Jews are fed up," said a league member named Maxime who refused to give
his full name, saying he feared for his safety. "We've been nice for 30
years. Now, we gather and fight back."
Maxime, a 22-year-old waiter, admits his group is not afraid to take
justice into its own hands if need be. He bragged about a 2003 incident
in which a Jewish Defense League member beat up pro-Palestinian
university students, injuring one.
"If a (Jewish) kid gets beaten up at school a few times, we go there and
talk to the guy who beat him up," he said. "If he does it again, we go
back and it's another story."
"Investigations are useless," Maxime said. "We're a second police."
Group members are unarmed but train in Krav-maga, a form of close combat
developed by the predecessor of the Israeli Army. Apparently tolerated
by authorities, they patrol Jewish neighborhoods such as Paris' Marais
and keep watch in community centers and even synagogues to keep any
subversives at bay.
Members wear scarves or masks but not uniforms and move quickly to
protect Jewish sites when they feel it necessary, like during the riots
that spread through poor French suburbs last fall.
Jean-Yves Camus, a researcher with the European Center of Research and
Action on Racism and Anti-Semitism, said the group epitomizes a new
generation of young Jews. "LDJ is the symbol of a generation that says:
'We won't bow our heads,"' Camus said in an interview.
Analysts say the anti-Semitism threat is evolving. For years, far-right
groups were the greatest concern. Now, the epicenter of anti-Semitism is
reported to be among immigrants from North Africa and their French-born
children.
League leaders fault what they say is the powerlessness of mainstream
associations in stemming the periodic waves of anti-Semitism.
Early this year, a young Jewish man was kidnapped, tortured and left for
dead by a gang allegedly led by a man from Ivory Coast. Last month, a
group of militant young black men who call themselves the Ka Tribe
swarmed into Paris' Jewish quarter shouting anti-Semitic slogans and
scrapping for a fight with league members.
Celine Ruimy, a 45-year-old housewife in the Jewish quarter, is glad the
group exists.
"It's important to show that there are some things we can't accept and
there are things we are not willing to live through again," she said.
Butcher shop owner Linda Saada, 47, agrees.
"I told my nephews, who are religious, to wear a cap instead of a
kipah," she said. "I think it's more prudent," she said.
Roger Cukierman, who heads the umbrella Representative Council of Jewish
Organizations in France, refused to comment on the Jewish Defense
League.
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Men mon ikke det burde få de europæiske regeringer til at tænke sig lidt
om? Det kan da ikke være meningen at etniske og andre mindretal skal
lave selvforsvarsgrupper fordi de bliver overfaldet af arabiske
racister? Fra Hollands Pim Fortuyn, der også var bøsseaktivist, ved vi
at det også går ud over bøsser og lesbiske.
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Per Erik Rønne
http://www.RQNNE.dk