Jewish organizations have denounced the sale over the weekend at a French Communist Party annual event of protection masks against the H1N1 swine flu marked with the mention “State of Israel.Criminal State.”
In a statement, the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism and the Councils of Jewish Communities of Seine-Saint-Denis condemned the initiative taken at the “Fête de l’Humanité” or Festival of Humanity, and particularly the sale by a Communist municipal councilor from the Paris suburb city of Saint-Denis, of anti-Israel masks.
T-shirts emblazoned with “Stop the Capitalist Flu” could also be seen at the stand.
“This type of initiative is likely to lead to anti-Jewish acts,” the organisations warned, recalling the fact that after an anti-Israel demonstration in Saint-Senis earlier this year nine petrol bombs were thrown against the local synagogue.
The Jewish groups demanded that security measures be taken around Jewish worship places in view of the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur.
In their statement, they also called on French Interior Minister “to use his authority so that elected officials of the Republic and in particular those of the Communist Party stop misusing their mandate to accuse and insult the Jewish state by inciting to hatred of Israel which leads to anti-Jewish act.”
(Source: EJP)
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These people are insanely dumb and corrupt. They are literal ignoramuses in the fact that arabs who are law-abiding Israeli citizens live better by all quality of life standards than arabs in any arab country. I do have one thing in common with these antisemites; we are both Ok with the ‘arab on arab’ crimes of humanity.
Our outrage should focus less on the frame and more on the painting.
In a free country, the French Communist Party can sell whatever anrtisemitic evil trash it wants to sell – Who is buying it? How popular is it? These, I respectfully suggest, are issues of greater concern.