UPDATE om antisemitiska misshandeln i Paris

Rudy Haddad har vaknat ur sin

coma och hans allmäntillstånd är

bättre. Däremot har han allvarliga

problem med minnet.

Samtidigt inställer sig många frågor

kring mediernas och myndigheternas

behandling av fallet.

Chesler Chronicles har gjort en bra

sammanfattning:

"Now, a visibly Jewish, kipah-wearing

17 year-old, Rudy Haddad, walking in

a Jewish quarter, was set upon by 15-30

“African immigrants.” No one is saying

whether they are Muslims or not. Alright,

Martians from Africa beat Haddad with

iron bars and fractured his skull. Haddad,

like Halimi, and like their attackers, are also

of African or possibly Arab descent–as was

Sebastien Selam who was murdered in Paris

in 2003. Haddad has just come out of a medically

induced coma. According to a Jewish Telegraphic

Agency report:
“While French officials were quick to condemn

the attack, most fell short of identifying the

crime as anti-Semitic, saying the police first

needed to complete their ongoing investigation.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters

while visiting Israel this week that he was

“particularly shocked by what happened to a

young French boy, on the pretext that he was

wearing a kipah,” the AFP news agency reported.

In an initial presidential statement Sunday,

Sarkozy denounced the attack but did not draw

such conclusions.” Read the JTA REPORT, HERE.

**
However, various representatives of the French

Jewish community have denounced this horrific

crime as “anti-Semitic” which, when last I checked,

is also considered a form of racism.
So, where are all the anti-racists now?

I hear no condemnations. The silence is chilling.

And all too predictable. Where are the mainstream

media? Where is FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and the

International Herald Tribune? (Only ABC ran a

Reuters’ 190 word story earlier today). When I

googled this story, the first three pages consisted

of stories filed by small bloggers and mainly by

Jewish and Israeli media. (Military Photos carried

a story as well). But where are The Washington

Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times?

For heaven’s sake: Where is Le Soir, Le Monde,

and Figaro? Has France’s Channel 2 covered this?"