France covers up ethnic hatred of Jews that leads to murder

Melanie Phillips:

As if the kidnap, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi near Paris wasn’t bad enough, the way it has been dealt with and reported has graphically illustrated what can only be described as a pathological refusal within Europe to acknowledge the fact that French Jews are being attacked and murdered by Muslims in a kind of rolling pogrom. Ilan Halami was a Jew. He was almost certainly kidnapped and murdered because he was singled out as a Jew for this fate. A number of recent kidnappings have taken place of which the vast majority of victims have been Jews and their kidnappers Muslims. As Nidra Poller has reported in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required):

The murder of Ilan Halimi invites comparison with the November 2003 killing of a Jewish disc jockey, Sébastien Selam. His Muslim neighbor, Adel, slit his throat, nearly decapitating him, and gouged out his eyes with a carving fork in his building’s underground parking garage. Adel came upstairs with bloodied hands and told his mother, ‘I killed my Jew, I will go to paradise.’ In the two years before his murder, the Selam family was repeatedly harassed for being Jewish. The Selam case has not been opened by the magistrate. The murderer, who admits his guilt, was placed in a psychiatric hospital, and may be released soon.

Yet originally the French authorities insisted the crime was motivated by money and there was no racial motive.

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But before people in Britain get too self-righteous about the slowness of the French to admit the reality of the Muslim victimisation of Jews, the British ‘liberal’ media was also slow to acknowledge the Jewish dimension of this crime. As Tom Gross records, last Sunday’s Observer story failed to mention that Ilan was a Jew. Says Gross:

It is very unlikely that The Guardian or The Observer would report on an almost certain racial attack on a black or Asian Muslim without mentioning that it was a racial attack, or who the perpetrators and victim were. This was undoubtedly clear to The Observer at the time of publication as illustrated by the fact that Ha'aretz, for example, had already published an article highlighting this.

The Independent was worse. Its story on February 21 (subscription required), headlined

Jewish anger at 'racist' murder by kidnap gang,

implied that the Jewish reaction was paranoid because

Most of the other victims, or intended victims, were not Jewish

and furthermore that it was the Jews who were violent:

At the weekend, a mainly peaceful protest march by Parisian Jews was marred by a number of violent actions by radical young Jewish men. A black man was beaten up, allegedly for "smiling" at the protest. An Arab-run grocery was attacked. A motorist who was caught up in the march was assaulted and had to be rescued by demonstration marshals.

Two days later, however, the paper abruptly changed its offensive tune. In a story headlined

This anti-Semitic attack is terrifying

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This disguting attitude is what makes the bigots think they can get away with these crimes. This story about London Mayor Ken Livingstone tells a little about the attitude of some in the UK:

London's Mayor Ken Livingstone, who exemplifies the curious affinity of the far left for Islamic extremism, has been suspended from his office for four weeks for asking a Jewish reporter whether he had been a "German war criminal," since he acted "just like a concentration camp guard." Livingstone refused to apologize for the incident. He also called the reporter's employer, London's Evening Standard, "a load of scumbags and reactionary bigots."

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Red Ken is a commie bigot.

Gateway Pundit has a lengthy post with a lot of new info on this atrocity including this:

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The killers of Ilan Halimi invited relatives over to help torture the Jew....

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