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by Guy Millière • March 5, 2019
at 5:00 am
- "It is up to us
to give a political meaning to the ["yellow vest"]
revolt. The goal is not simply to challenge an increase in
taxes, but the political system that induces it..." —
Elias d'Imzalene, French Islamist preacher, November 23, 2018.
- "Macron hates
the yellow vests and wants them to vanish. He wants to win
European elections and needs the Muslim vote. He knows perfectly
well who the anti-Semites are today, but will not attack them.
He needs them. He attacks [only] those who are dangerous to
him. "— Éric Zemmour, French author, February 19, 2019.
- Other people noted
that holding a demonstration that excluded the right-wing
National Rally party was a move aimed at diverting attention
from the real anti-Semitic danger. They also suggested that
political parties which support the murderers of Jews were
precisely those which deny that radical Islam is a danger.
After
sixteen Saturday demonstrations by the "yellow vests,"
who began in November by protesting French President Emmanuel
Macron's increase in fuel prices, the controversy seems to have
taken a darker turn. Pictured: "Yellow vest" protestors
near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, on March 2, 2019.
After sixteen Saturday demonstrations by the "yellow
vests," who began in November by protesting French President
Emmanuel Macron's increase in fuel prices, the controversy seems to
have taken a darker turn.
That seems to have come to light on February 13,
when a small group of demonstrators started hurling insults at a
French Jewish philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut -- who was born in
and lives in Paris -- after they spotted him on a sidewalk. One
man, shouted, "Shut up, dirty Zionist sh*t," "Go
home to Tel Aviv," "France is ours," "God will
punish you." A cameraman filmed the incident, then shared the
video on social networks. A scandal ensued. The "yellow
vests" movement as a whole was immediately accused by the
French government of anti-Semitism and "fascism".
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