French anti-Semitism

In a Memo to Everyone Eric Alterman says that although the French are “mildly anti-Semitic”…

“It’s not the ultra-rightists and neo-Nazis” who are responsible for the latest attacks on French Jews but members of the country’s “North African and Arab immigrant community” and therefore “the best way to ameliorate it would be for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.”

According to Alterman, the perpetrators of these crimes don’t hate their Jewish victims, they are just unhappy at Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.

I thought we were looking at hate crimes, turns out it’s just another another kind of intifada.

Michael Totten is fed up with this kind of thing and Jeff Jarvis thinks Alterman has made the “moral mistake of the age”.

Thanks to Roger L Simon for the links.