Two Muslim Arabs Beat 88-Year-Old French Jewish Woman

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The surge in antisemitism continues in France. In the last three months of 2023, there were more antisemitic incidents reported in the country than in the previous three years combined. Grande Synagogue of Paris Chief Rabbi Moshe Sebbag has issued a gloomy prediction: “It is clear today that there is no future for Jews in France. I tell everyone who is young to go to Israel or a more secure country.”

The Jews of France remember the gang of Muslim Arabs and Africans who kidnapped and tortured to death Ilan Halimi. They remember the murders of two elderly women., 65-year-old Sarah Halimi and 85- year-old Mireille Knoll. Sarah Halimi was beaten with a phone and then with his fists by Kobili Traoré, a drug dealer and drug addict, who then defenestrated her while shouting “Allahu akbar.” Traoré had previously frightened Halimi with repeated antisemitic insults. Mireille Knoll was an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was stabbed eleven times, and then set on fire by Yacine Milhoub, a Muslim neighbor whom she had known, befriended, and taken care of since he was a little boy. Then there were the four Jews who were murdered at the Hyper Cacher kosher market at the Porte de Vincennes by Amedy Coulibaly. In Toulouse, Rabbi Jonathan Sandler was murdered, along with his two little boys, Aryeh, aged six, and Gavriel, aged three, in front of the city’s Jewish school. Eight-year-old Myriam Monsonego, daughter of the school’s head teacher, tried to escape the killer, Mohammed Merah, who chased her into the courtyard, caught her by her hair and raised a gun to shoot her. The gun jammed at this point. He changed weapons from what the police identified as a 9mm pistol to a .45 calibre gun, and shot the girl in her temple at point-blank range. These are just some of the stories of Muslims murdering Jews in France.

There is also the daily fare of taunts to Jewish pupils in classrooms, beatings in the schoolyards, the harassing of Jewish passengers in the metro, on buses, in trains. There are the street robberies of Jews who are especially targeted because, so many Muslims believe, “Jews have all the money,” there is the vandalism in Jewish cemeteries, with swastikas painted on gravestones, the “Mort aux Juifs” (Death to the Jews) scrawled on the walls of synagogues, the sexual assaults of Jewish girls and women to take “revenge for Palestine,” and most recently, the rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by three Muslims.

The latest example of this antisemitic crime wave took place in Val d’Oise, where two Muslim men proceeded to beat and knock down an 88-year-old Jewish woman who was on her way to a doctor’s appointment and made the mistake of wearing a neckless with a Star of David attached. More on this attack can be found here: “88-year-old grandmother of Israeli MK beaten in France, called ‘dirty Jew,’” by Stuart Winer, Times of Israel, July 4, 2024:

The 88-year-old grandmother of MK Sharren Haskel (New Hope) was physically and verbally assaulted last month in France in what the Israeli lawmaker said was an antisemitic attack that should serve as a wake-up call to the French people about the threat posed by radical Islam….

In her complaint to police, the woman, who was not named in media reports or by Haskel, described leaving her home in Val-d’Oise, north of Paris, for a medical appointment when two men assaulted her, reports said. One of them, she said, punched her in the face, breaking her tooth and causing her to fall to the ground. She was kicked in the back as one of the men shouted “dirty Jew” and called her “a dirty old woman.”

The two assailants also shouted at her: “This is what you deserve.”

In her police complaint, the woman noted that she was wearing a Star of David necklace and that the two men may have noticed, “otherwise they wouldn’t have known” that she was Jewish, according to reports….

In a statement to Hebrew media outlets, Haskel said that the two men who attacked her grandmother were “Arab thugs.”

“Antisemitism in France has been on the rise for a long time. Since October 7, it has become intolerable and the government in France is ignoring and allowing the spread of blood libels against Israel. As a result the Jewish community is suffering from violence, rape, murder.”…

Haskel also published an opinion piece in the Causeur, a French news magazine, in which she called for an end to “state-run anti-Israeli propaganda” that she claimed is led by the Agence France Presse (AFP) news service and French public media, and that according to her is feeding antisemitism….

The slanted coverage by Agence France-Presse of the war in Gaza, depicting the IDF as conducting a barbaric campaign of “war crimes” and “genocide,” has helped to whip up the antisemitic fervor of French Muslims — not that they have ever needed much whipping up.

While the Jews are described in the Qur’an as the “strongest in enmity to the Muslims” (5:82), Muslims know that all non-Muslims are to be despised and shunned, because they are “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). What is happening to Jews today in France will happen to the non-Jewish Infidels tomorrow. “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.”

The Jews of France have a choice. Some will choose to make Aliyah, convinced that the situation in France cannot be improved, and that the Muslim presence will inexorably grow and make life ever less tolerable for the Jews. But others will stay, unwilling to be chased away by violent barbarians, and will find hope in the resurgent National Rally, the only party that offers full-throated support for Israel, and intends to halt, and then reverse, the recent massive influx of Muslims, which if achieved will make life safer and less onerous for the Jews of France, as it will for all the non-Muslims in the Hexagon.

French Jews must learn to dismiss that epithet “far-right,” which no longer applies to the National Rally, if it ever did. They should ignore the attempt of the party’s political enemies to convince Jews that the party is antisemitic. It isn’t. The “antisemitic” party of the right was the National Front, founded by Marine Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. But he has been denounced by his daughter, explicitly for his antisemitism, expressed in his remark that the gas chambers were a mere “detail” of World War II. She has nothing to do with him, politically or personally. The National Rally is pro-Israel and philosemitic. Jordan Bardella, president of the NR and its leading MEP, who if the NR wins an absolute majority in the National Assembly would become prime minister, has declared a “two-state solution” to be “obsolete,” and says that a Palestinian state would be a “reward for terror.” Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli praised Bardella, and his office said: “We have excellent contact” with the party of Le Pen. Those who are contemplating aliyah because of their fears for the future of French Jews may want to hold off making such a move. They should wait to see what the National Rally manages to accomplish, now that sufficient numbers of the French public have finally become alarmed at the danger posed by the millions of Muslims in their midst.