More Touching Concern for Jewish Sensitivity
One of the most surreal manifestations of the world's distate for Jews is the thoughtless, ingrained disresprect with which their sensitivities are treated:
The swastikas were not scrawled on the Hebrew gravestones of anyone Guy Muller loved or even knew. But he was still taking it personally. Walking along the rows of vandalized graves at Strasbourg's Jewish cemetery, Muller, 19, from Amsterdam, said he was infuriated by the sight... A month has passed and still no one has washed off the swastikas and other Nazi graffiti daubed over the Hebrew inscriptions on close to 100 tombstones in the Strasbourg cemetery, which is located in the nearby city of Brumath... the local police are insisting that the graffiti must stay put until their investigation is closed.
Yeah OK.
Listen, maybe having the graffiti there could possibly help the police with some sort of forensic evidence somewhere down the road. Maybe. But if this was any other religion, they would have gone out of their way to get all of the evidence, take all of the pictures, and repair the situation. If this was a Muslim graveyard, there would be strikes and marches in Paris until Chirac personally took action. But with Jews, the French authorities just don't care. Sure, there were some statements and some faux outrage. But day-to-day practices are where people's beliefs really play out, and the police's obtuse callousness speaks volumes. The graffiti won't be removed as soon as they catch the faceless, nameless anti-Semites that did this. If you're trying to predict how long that will be, consider it took the French legal system a little over a year to actually punish one Muslim from a group who were caught attacking a rabbi (four months of prison - that'll show him!).
The swastikas were not scrawled on the Hebrew gravestones of anyone Guy Muller loved or even knew. But he was still taking it personally. Walking along the rows of vandalized graves at Strasbourg's Jewish cemetery, Muller, 19, from Amsterdam, said he was infuriated by the sight... A month has passed and still no one has washed off the swastikas and other Nazi graffiti daubed over the Hebrew inscriptions on close to 100 tombstones in the Strasbourg cemetery, which is located in the nearby city of Brumath... the local police are insisting that the graffiti must stay put until their investigation is closed.
Yeah OK.
Listen, maybe having the graffiti there could possibly help the police with some sort of forensic evidence somewhere down the road. Maybe. But if this was any other religion, they would have gone out of their way to get all of the evidence, take all of the pictures, and repair the situation. If this was a Muslim graveyard, there would be strikes and marches in Paris until Chirac personally took action. But with Jews, the French authorities just don't care. Sure, there were some statements and some faux outrage. But day-to-day practices are where people's beliefs really play out, and the police's obtuse callousness speaks volumes. The graffiti won't be removed as soon as they catch the faceless, nameless anti-Semites that did this. If you're trying to predict how long that will be, consider it took the French legal system a little over a year to actually punish one Muslim from a group who were caught attacking a rabbi (four months of prison - that'll show him!).
