In France, the major publisher, Flammarion, has just published a children’s book called “Dreaming of Palestine.” According to the paper, Proche-Orient, the book is, in effect,
under the guise of fiction based on real events, a lethal provocation to hatred, violence and jihad against Israelis and Jews. A book, that in the French social-political context, can only encourage anti-Semitic acts.
Not content with fostering hatred of Jews among the childern of the Arab world, the campaign is now spreading to Europe.
ANTI-SEMITISM WATCH II: “Osama’s” reference to Benjamin Franklin passed me by, I have to say. It turns out it was a reference to a very old and hoary anti-Semitic chestnut – that Benjamin Franklin allegedly warned Americans about Jewish immigrants at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Here’s the ADL’s take on that particular story. How depressing that these kinds of paranoid conspiracy tales, which were once the province of Europe, have now been taken up by an Arab world that lived with Jews for centuries without this kind of pathology.
AN ISRAELI VICTIM: A reader corrects another slander:
While reading your Daily Dish just now, I noted the oft-repeated statement that no Israelis (it used to be no Jews) died in the Sept. 11 attacks. As a matter of fact, the first person killed, on the first plane, before it hit the North Tower, was an Israeli civilian, male. He stood up to the hijackers and was stabbed, as was reported by the flight attendant during her call. Investigators later matched his name to his seat number.
CHIRAC ON THE BALL: The leader of that great and lustrous power, la France, caught goofing off at the NATO summit.
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