More Anti-Jewish Violence in Toulouse
Israeli relatives mourn during the funeral of victims of the Toulouse school shooting at the Givat Shaun cemetery in Jerusalem on March 21, 2012. (Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Images)
The Jewish school Ozar Hatorah, in Toulouse, France doesn't need to teach its students about anti-Semitism; it's on the curriculum of daily experience. Today, just months after an Islamist gunman shot and killed three students and a Rabbi at the school, another student, wearing a Star of David around his neck, was attacked on his train ride home. European Jewish Press reports that he was attacked verbally and then physically:
The victim, who wore identifiable religious symbols, was subjected to verbal insults in the train the first instance, according to the official announcement, which continued: "The teenager was then attacked in the platform toilets by two individuals who beat him up."
No wonder so many French Jews want to move to Israel.
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Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Crisis of Zionism, was published by Times Books in April 2012.
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