Paris, France – An anti-Israel rally in Paris turned ugly on Sunday after hundreds of pro-Palestinian supporters attempted to take a synagogue by storm.
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The incident occurred early Sunday evening just as thousands of demonstrators who had gathered in support of the Palestinians and the people of Gaza were dispersing from the site between Barbès and the Place de la Bastille.
At one point, dozens of people wearing keffiyeh and waving flags of Jihad attempted to use force to enter the Don Yitzchak Abarbanel Synagogue at rue de la Roquette.
A police spokeswoman said the synagogue was targeted during a service, and worshippers were blocked inside while police pushed protesters back.
The spokeswoman said all those inside left safely by Sunday evening.
According to Sacha Reingewirtz, President of the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), about thirty people began shouting “death to Jews” while several hundred began hurling projectiles at the synagogue.
French media is reporting that six police officers were injured by hooligans during the ensuing melee as they attempted to prevent them from entering the Shul.
Reports say that four Jewish community members sustained minor injuries and nine people were arrested.
“It is absolutely outrageous that people in the pretext of conflict address the Jews in a call to kill them,” Reingewitz said.
In a statement French Prime Minister Manuel Valls strongly condemned the violence that took place.
“Such acts at places of worship are unacceptable.” “I would like to remind strongly that France will never tolerate an attempt by the violence of words, or acts on its soil to import the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, said Valls.
Aline Le Bail-Kremer watched the incident unfold from her window across the street. She said protesters came from two directions and converged on the synagogue, grabbing chairs from sidewalk cafes and wielding bats as they tried to push past security guards.
Some 150 people were inside for a ceremony honoring three Israeli teens recently killed, said Le Bail-Kremer, a representative of anti-racism group SOS Racisme.
Sunday’s protest, involving about 10,000 people, had been largely peaceful.
Despite sporadic rain, the marchers packed long and leafy Paris avenues, including young women in headscarves or Palestinian keffiyeh scarves. Some marched under enormous Palestinian green, white and black flags, while others waved signs reading “Stop Killing Children.”
Hatchets are less remote. The French breed this hostility.
אין חדש תחת השמש
The world is really inhabited by backwards people.
Israel MUST stop the fights with gaza & the arabs NOW as we speak they putting all the jews around the world in danger
1939 ??????????????
Jews around the world even in America are in danger all because of the media is so hateful and lefties, all they show is how the Arabs of suffering. Hashem yerachem
Why didn’t they throw stones , bentches, bombs or anything on these sub human savages?
I guess tietelbaum thinks paris is safe for jews
Kristallnacht, French-style….
I don’t think that the Satmar Rebbe Z’L said that Israel’s existence is unfair or immoral from a secular point-of-view.
And I doubt he’d currently advise Israel to not defend it’s inhabitants.
(The current Rebbes of Satmar aren’t saying that either.)
All he said (that pertains to the current situation) is that we have to recognize the Anti-Semitism, and “double standard” towards Jews, that is prevalent throughout the world.
And all those that predict(ed) that the State will reduce and diminish global Anti-Semitism, is sorely mistaken.
So far it seems that his words were indeed prophetic.
They won’t tolerate it. How many arrests were made?
What of the Palestinian statements that they only hate Israel and not Jews?
In this time before Geula we are going to see who is who and who stands for what, and what these so-called people really are, and who throws their towel in with them, and who with us.
We just have to remember to keep do more goodness and kindness with the intention of bringing the Geula closer.
Every shul around the world needs to stock up with automatic machine guns and lots of ammunition, just in case this happens again they would be able to defend themselves.
I hope this does not happen in Ramapo. Everywhere I go, people are talking about the Jews and what they are doing to the schools and housing. Everyone worries about illegal yeshivas on quiet blocks. It’s frightening!
keep this in mind: the greeks are gone. the romans are gone. the Persians are gone. we are BH stil here. omdim oleinu l’chaloseinu v’ haKodosh Boruch Hu matzilenu miyadam
I have Been Saying This For Almost 2 Decades Now…Here On VIN When Someone Asks A JEW To Arm Themselves, It’s As If We Have Asked Them To Mix Milk And MEAT! What a Shandah…PLEASE…Do Not Tziter In Fear…We Said NEVER AGAIN & WE MEANT IT! Even if nothing EVER comes to YOUR SHUL…Shouldn’t YOU BE PREPARED? You practice for a FIRE DRILL…THIS IS A JIHAD DRILL! Don’t PRETEND It’s NOT HAPPENING…AGAIN…WE WILL NOT LET IT>>>>>