Jewish French Intellectual Under Fire for Identifying Paris Rioters

Prominent French-Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut has been under half a month’s worth of sustained criticism – including the possibility of a media boycott, the threat of lawsuits, and the specter of violence – for identifying the “disgruntled youth” who launched the Paris Intifada as Muslim. In a caricature of Leftist denial, he is being blamed by liberal weeklies for “worsening the social chasms in the country” – as if naming the problem brings it into existence.