A Jewish woman in her 30s was stabbed at her home in the city of Lyon on Shabbos afternoon, French media reported.
The perpetrator rang the doorbell of her home and when she opened the door, he stabbed her twice in her abdomen, a police spokesperson said.
The perpetrator, a man with his face covered and dressed in dark clothing, then sprayed a swastika on the woman’s door and fled the scene.
The woman’s doorpost boasted a mezuzah, which sadly, many Jews in Europe are now removing out of fear of being targeted.
The woman was evacuated to the hospital for treatment for her wounds, which although serious, were Baruch Hashem not life-threatening.
The woman’s lawyer Stéphane Deri said that “the victim, her family and the Jewish community are in shock.” He confirmed that a complaint will be filed for “attempted murder.”
The rabbi of the city of Metz in France, Rabbi Pinchas Fishzon, told Ynet: “We are very worried. This is something that can happen anywhere in France. There is an atmosphere of anti-Semitism everywhere. I am not talking about the ‘ordinary’ French, who support us. The Muslims and the extreme left are protesting everywhere, even in my city, which is quiet, and they shout that Israel is committing genocide.”
“It gives ideas to all kinds of crazy people who can go and kill Jews. In Paris, I know that some Jews are removing their mezuzahs, and there are some Rabbanim who allow it because it’s dangerous. This woman, Baruch Hashem, was saved, but I have never felt such an atmosphere in my life. It reminds me of the stories my mother told me about the days before World War II. But today, the police and army are guarding our school and shul. The government and the politicians on the right and the left also support us.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Let them and all Jews tell all the gentiles the truth that the Zionist State is Zionist and not Jewish and that Zionism is diametrically opposed to Judaism, so that the gentiles should not hold Jews accountable for anything the Zionist State does.
Those gentiles are the ones who are Zionists if they blame Jews for anything the Zionists do, because the Zionists are the ones who lie that they represent Jews. That’s Zionism.
French police have a lot of work on their hands containing this current crisis & simultaneously having to maintain security at summer 2024 Olympics.
Did he also shout Allah Akbar?
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME IF THOSE MAKING THESE DECISIONS ABOUT THE WAR AND GAZA ARE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT JEWS ACROSS THE WORLD? SURE THE ISRAELI’S ARE IN THEIR OWN LAND AND THEY FEEL THE PROTECTION OF THE ARMY AND IRON DOME, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD’S CONSEQUENCES????? HOW IS IT THEY CAN GO ON EXPECTING GOYIM NOT TO HARM JEWS IN OTHER PLACES? THEY ARE LEAVING THEM WITH AN EXCUSE TO CAUSE MANY YIDDEN TO SUFFER…..
TODAY, I AM A JEW by Catherine Ford
FROM: SATURDAY’S CALGARY HERALD
REPRINTED IN: TODAY’S MONTREAL GAZETTE
Received by e-mail: 03/22/2002
He was slaughtered far away from Jerusalem or Ramallah.
But Daniel Pearl’s death and mutilation in Pakistan, because he was an American, but most importantly because he was a Jew, has done what no other act of barbarism accomplished.
The Wall Street Journal writer’s death turned my heart to stone.
Even this week’s peace overtures from Saudi Arabia are no longer enough.
Not after yet another Jew has been humiliated, slaughtered, and his remains debased.
There is an apocryphal Second World War story during the German occupation of Denmark:
When the Nazis ordered all Jews to wear a yellow star, so did King Christian X.
And he encouraged all of his subjects to do the same.
That Queen Margrethe II says it didn’t happen doesn’t in any way debase the symbolism.
The myth continues because bravery and defiance in the face of hatred is always inspiring.
Today, those who hate Jews are able to do so because too many Gentiles will not stand up and be counted as the Danish myth proposes. Too many non-Jews tacitly accept racism and discrimination.
No more. Today, I proudly echo Pearl’s last words:
I am a Jew. I join my husband, his family, our friends, and my colleagues who are Jews.
I am a Jew because I can no longer accept the excuses made for anti-Semitism.
I no longer accept the lies that hatred on the part of Arab countries and hatred shown the Jews in the West is something individual and isolated. It is not.
Our silence for long years has encouraged Holocaust deniers, revisionists, baiters and haters to spread their poison.
I used to think there was a middle ground, that especially when the question of Israel arose, that both “sides” were equally at fault. No more.
I can’t agree with the actions of Ariel Sharon’s government, in its eye-for-an-eye, death-for-death retaliation against the Palestinians, but my disgust for anti-Semites and Israel-deniers who populate Israel’s Arab neighbours is worse.
For as far back as I can remember, the “solution” to the crises in the Middle East has been to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians and Arab countries. Yet, the proposal by Saudi Arabia that Israel to return Gaza and the West Bank in exchange for peace is not enough, even in the unlikely event the Sharon government would agree.
The West has a role and a responsibility in this conflict to affirm, publicly, our support for Israel and to demand others do the same. Only then will negotiations have any chance of success.
I don’t mean mealy mouthed political niceties, I mean insisting Israel’s neighbours such as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, and all the Arab countries accept Israel or accept the consequences.
There are few countries in the Middle East that share our civilized values and democratic principles as closely as Israel does. It is time to stand up and be counted in more than words.
We have the power and the moral responsibility to do so, and it doesn’t need to be with bombs, even if we want to expand the so-called “axes of evil.” We have a far greater hammer. We have the economic clout to impose sanctions. All we need is the will.
The time for playing nice with killers is over. The time for “understanding” the plight of the Palestinians is past. It’s now time to affirm on the world stage the inherent right of Israel to exist in peace. Israel’s neighbours must accept their responsibility in fomenting hatred and open their borders to the displaced Palestinians. For nearly 50 years these countries have done nothing to alleviate the suffering of their kith and kin.
They have allowed terrorists, anarchists, dictators and religious fanatics to flourish within their borders. It’s not necessary to bomb Iraq or any of them into submission. Sanctions are more devastating. No truck; no trade. No immigration. No visas. No money or goods.
Bombing promotes self-pity and lets the evil-doers blame the United States for their sorry plight. Bombs are easy. They require no sacrifice on the part of the West other than money to pay for material. How much more devastating to shun them.
If we are committed to Israel, we have to show we mean it,
and if that means less oil for SUVs because we refuse to trade honour for comfort, too bad.
It is time for all of us to stand up and say: I am a Jew.
Is Islam really The Religion of Peace?
2014 CE: The murder of 4 Jews in food store in France by Muslims
2014 CE: The murder of 3 Israeli teenagers by Muslims
2013 CE: The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
2012 CE: The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims
2012 CE: The murder of 4 children in Toulouse by Muslims
2009 CE: The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
2009 CE: The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
2008 CE: The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
2005 CE: The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
2004 CE: The Besian Russian School attacked by Muslims
2004 CE: The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
2002 CE: The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
2002 CE: The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
2002 CE: The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
2002 CE: The journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded by Muslims
2001 CE: The Shoe Bomber (Richard Reid) was a Muslim
2001 CE: The September 11th Airline Hijackers were Muslims
2001 CE: The Sbarro’s Pizza store in Israel bombed by Muslims
2000 CE: The U.S.S. Cole Navy Ship Bombers were Muslims
1998 CE: The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
1998 CE: The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
1996 CE: The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
1995 CE: The 1st World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
1994 CE: The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
1985 CE: The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
1983 CE: The Beirut USA Embassy bombers were Muslims
1983 CE: The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
1979 CE: The USA Embassy in Iran takeover was by Muslims
1976 CE: The Air France: Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
1974 CE: The Ma’alot Massacre: 22 children killed by Muslims
1972 CE: The Israeli Olympic-Team was massacred by Muslims
HOW COME WE DONT HEAR OF MUSLIM STABBED BY JEWISH MAN. MY QUESTION IS AN ANSWER. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR CULTURE AKA TORAH, AND THIER DEATH CULTURE
HaKatan, what I read from you makes me very sad. Zionist or not, they are Jewish, and WE ARE AM EHAD. Kol Israel Harevim Ze la Ze, so yes, what the Zionist do affect us because they are Jewish too. You cannot separate one thing from the other, and you, by posting does comments do EXACTLY THE OPPOSITTE of what we need now, that is lo Ing your fellow Jew regardless of idiologies, or any difference.
What happened Oct 7 was, largerly because of the Sinaat Chinam that ocurre de in Y E prior to that.
Bot only Mefinat Israel is in war now, ALL AM ISRAEL IS