THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Aupst 13, 1982 21
French Anti-Semitic Terror Creating Resistance
(Continued from Page 1)
but above all, I am a Jew.
If the French authorites
will not prevent the
neo-Nazi manifestation
of the murder of Jews
just because they are
Jews, I will not hesitate
as a Jew to call upon the
youth of our people living
in France to actively de-
fend the lives of the Jews
and their human dig-
nity."
The Israeli Foreign
Ministry said that the atti-
tude of the French media in
reporting the actions of Is-
rael's forces against the
PLO terrorists in Lebanon
had contributed to the
attmosphere which
/ encouraged the attacks
against Jews in France.
Police investigating
Wednesday's bombing said
they found inscriptions on
an adjacent building calling
for the "immediate and un-
conditional withdrawal of
the Israeli fascists from
Lebanon" and warning, "If
the Palestinians are forced
to leave Beirut, we shall kill
the Zionist financiers and
propagandists working for
its (Israel's) cause." The in-
scriptions were signed
"AD," the initials of the Ac-
tion Directe organization.
Eight AD members were
detained Tuesday for ques-
tioning but were released
after police found nothing
linking them to the Rue des
Rosiers attack on Monday.
In that incident, a ter-
rorist squad hit at the
heart of Paris' traditional
Jewish quarter, the
Marais section, killing six
people and wounding 15
more, some of them seri-
ously. Four terrorists
opened fire on customers
eating lunch in the city's
best known Jewish res-
taurant and then fired on
fleeing shopkeepers and
passersby.
Eyewitnesses told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the commando hit-
team, described as "Arab-
looking," were "out to kill as
many of us as possible. They
shot at everyone and at ev- -
erything." A kosher butcher
who was about to open his
shop for lunch said, "I hid
behind a car, and even then
they shot at me. They
wanted Jewish blood."
Police say the attack "is
obviously connected with
the Lebanese crisis, "but in-
vestigators do not know as
yet whether the terrorists
were Palestinians or
whether they belong to the
extreme leftwing Direct Ac-
tion organization which
carried out a number of
anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish
attacks during the last few
days.
These included the bomb-
ings of a Jewish shop which
7 –imports goods from Israel, a
ink formerly owned by Is-
raeli shareholders and the
Rothschild family, and a car
owned by an Israeli dip-
lomat. There were no
casualties in these inci-
dents. Direct Action is be-
lieved to have ties to the
PLO, the Red Army Faction
of West Germany and the
Red Brigade of Italy.
According to some
eyewitnesses, the attack
started after 1 p.m. Four
men, waiting in the Gol-
denberg restaurant,
known for its traditional
Jewish cooking, sud-
denly drew out from
under their coats sub-
machineguns and
sprayed the large restau-
rant and delicatessen
store. The restaurant is in
the heart of the Rue de
Rosiers, Paris' old
Jewish quarter in which
poor Jews have lived for
more than 100 years.
The terrorists continued
shooting while running
through the raw of narrow
alleys, leaving behind a
trail of wounded and dead.
There are three women
among the six killed.
Police stationed in front
of a nearby synagogue, La
Synagogue de la rue des
Payees, went into action as
soon as they heard the first
shots. Policemen started
chasing the terrorists but
lost track of them in the old
quarter. One policeman, a
plain-clothes detective, was
seriously injured by one of
the quarter's residents.
Police say the detective,
stationed near the syna-
gogue, drew his gun to trade
fire with the attackers when
one of the residents appar-
ently taking him for a ter-
rorist, shot from a window
with a hunting rifle. The
officext was wounded in the
face.
Within minutes after
the attack, the street, in implicated the Palesti-
which the wounded and nian "Abu Nidal" group
dead were still lying, fil- in Monday's attack.
led with people. As ambu-
Defferre said the ter-
lances started to reach rorists used the same
the spot, hundreds of weapons as those which had
Jews took to the street served in the attack on Is-
shouting "revenge" and rael's Ambassador to Lon-
accusing the French gov- gon, Shlomo Argov, June 3
ernment of "encouraging and in the attack against a
the terrorists" by sup- Vienna synagogue last
porting the Palestine August. The Abu Nidal
Liberation Organization group, a pro-Iraqi Palesti-
n Beirut.
nian extremist faction, was
Jewish communities in responsible for both.
The American Embassy
Western Europe have been
he target of several attacks in Paris, Sen. Charles Percy
of Illinois and scores of
n recent years:
• March 27, 1979 — 33 organizations denounced
people, mainly Jewish stu- the attacks and expressed
dents, were wounded after a condolences to the victims'
grenade was thrown into a families. Two American
Jewish youth hostel in tourists from Illinois were
killed in the incident.
Paris.
• July 27, 1980—A14-
Most ofthe press attacked
year-old boy was killed and Israel for having accused
20 people wounded in
the French government and
Antwerp Belgium, while the French media of respon-
waiting for a bus to take
sibility for the attack by
hem to summer camp.
"having created an anti-
• Oct. 3, 1980 — Four Semitic climate in France."
eople were killed and nine The papers deny the allega-
wounded by a bomb explo- tions and Le Monde in a
ion outside the Paris lib- front page editorial implied
ral synagogue on Rue that Israel's acts are to
Copernic.
blame and not the fact that
• Aug. 2, 1981 — Two the press reported them.
eople were killed and 17
President Francois Mit-
wounded by a three-man terrand was greeted with
ommando, team who at- catcalls and shouts of
acked the Vienna syna- "shame" and "Mitterrand
ogue
traitor" when he attended a
• Aug. 29,=1981— Three religious service at the Rue
eople were killed and des Rosiers Synagogue.
cores wounded by a bomb Several hundred people,
xplosion in the center of mainly Jewish residents of
Antwerp's Jewish Quarter.
the area, gathered in the
French Minister of streets. Tempers soon flared
Interior Gaston Deferre and the crowd, first softly,
then ever louder, started
shouting anti-government
slogans.
hides; a Jew could be in-
Prime Minister Pierre
volved with manufactured Mauroy, who came
woolen and cotton items, shortly after the terrorist
but could not be involved attack to present the gov-
with raw wool or woolen ernment's condolences,
threads.
was booed and jeered.
—From M. Hirsh His voice could barely be
Goldberg's "Just Because heard as he told the
They're Jewish" (Scar-
borough Books).
.
Old Restriction s on the Jew
From the 16th Century
until the French Revolu-
tion, the ghetto existence
was the lot of most of Euro-
pean Jewry, and it allowed
few of thg freedoms neces-
sary for the full flowering of
occupational talents. Only
mentally could the Jew leap
the walls of the ghetto and
the restrictions of the Gen-
tile society.
The
discrimination
against the Jew was so per-
vasive, arbitrary; and cap-
ricious that it encumbered
the Jew's ability not only to
live but to make a living.
What Jews could or could
not do to earn a livelihood
came under constant and
conflicting restrictions.
Some countries prevented
Jews from being shopkeep-
ers, others from being
craftsmen.
One country ruled that
Jews could deal in wood
and leather, while an-
other country ruled they
could not. The Jews
would be encouraged to
start a factory in one
land, yet be prevented
from doiitg so in another.
One region of a country
would decree that Jews
were allowed to sell alcohol;
a neighboring region would
make it against the law.
In the middle of the 18th
Century in Prussia, for in-
stance, Jews found that the
government permitted
them to do business in raw
calf and sheepskin, but not
in raw cowhide or horse-
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angry crowd: "France
only wants peace. It is
against violence,
whether in the Middle
East or Beirut and how
much more so where
Paris itself is concerned."
Defferre, one of Israel's
staunchest friends within
_ the Socialist administra-
tion, was also greeted with
hostile slogans. The minis-
ter, who had flown to Paris
from his hometown Marseil-
les to attend the religious
service, told the crowd: "I
cannot blame you for what
you say. I understand your
feelings and your anger."
Pandemonium broke out
when the President arrived.
In spite of a police bar-
ricade, demonstrators man-
aged to squeeze through.
While Kadish was recited
inside the small, centuries-
old synagogue, the shouts of
the demonstrators — "Mit-
terrand, Oradour" and
"Socialism, betrayal" —
could be heard inside the
building. After the cere-
mony Mitterrand drove to
the city's main hospital
where close to 20 of the
wounded are hospitalized,
many in the intensive care
ward.
• MIMILME..
French reporters cover-
ing the attack were insulted
and at times manhandled
by the angry crowd. "You
(the reporters) are greatly
responsible for what has
taken place here," said
many of the participants.
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