[ April 18, 2024 ]
There are many parallels between the Paris attacks and the Mumbai jihad attacks of November 2008. This is the central one: in my extensive coverage of the savage Muslim attacks in Mumbai, India, I exposed the Muslim attackers’ obsession with targeting the little Jewish Chabad house. From the inception of the planning, this was central. The Jewish Chabad house was part of a larger attack on hotels and public buildings across Mumbai that resulted in the deaths of at least 166 people. But for the Muslim terrorists themselves, Nariman House was different. It was the only Jewish target, and the Muslim terrorists were told by their central command in Pakistan that the lives of Jews were worth 50 times those of non-Jews. The organisers had sought it out with care. Their handlers would emphasize to them the importance of killing Jews.
Islamic Jew-hatred: it’s in the Quran.
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“Main target in Paris attack: Jewish concert hall,” by Ari Yashar, Israel National News, November 14, 2015:
Theater in Paris, the concert hall where most of the bloodshed was seen on Saturday as 82 out of a total of more than 128 people were murdered in six coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State (ISIS), was owned by Jews.
In the attack, four terrorists armed with assault rifles shouting “Allahu akbar” (Allah is greater) stormed in during a concert by the US rock group Eagles of Death Metal. They executed hostages one by one.
Three of them blew up their explosive belts in suicide attacks as anti-terror police ended the siege at 12:30 a.m. local time, while a fourth was shot by police. Next to one of the attackers, a Syrian passport of a man who entered Europe via Greece as a “refugee” was found.
The French magazine Le Point reported on Saturday that a member of the radical group Army of Islam told French security services back in 2011 that “we had planned an attack against the Bataclan because its owners are Jewish.”
Bataclan Theater was also targeted back in 2004 when the Israeli hip-hop duo of Subliminal and Hatzel performed there, despite threats by Islamists that nearly closed the performance. In a 2006 repeat, the venue gave in to the pressure and canceled the show in advance, forcing the Zionist rap stars to perform elsewhere.
“Anti-semitic motives”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Saturday expressed its outrage at the attack while noting on the Jewish connection of the concert hall.
“We join with the international community in loudly condemning these barbaric and heinous terror attacks, which have claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent people going about their lives,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO.
“Words cannot express our shock at these despicable attacks in Paris. This was an outrageous, cowardly and premeditated assault not just on the people of France, but on all freedom loving people around the world.”
“While the investigation continues and the terrorists’ motivations are still unclear, we are deeply concerned at reports that the Bataclan Theater has long been a locus of anti-Zionist groups. We hope the French authorities will investigate the possibility that virulent anti-Semitism was a motive in the attack,” added Greenblatt.
“Having been in Paris earlier this month, I can attest to the resolve and strength of the people of that great city, and know that they will emerge from this tragedy stronger and more united. We stand in solidarity with the French people during this terrible time, and support the efforts of the French government to locate and apprehend those behind the attacks and bring safety and security to all of France.
“Earlier this year, Paris endured the brutality of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, an assault on free expression. We also saw the violent killing committed at Hyper Cacher, a heinous act of anti-Semitism directed squarely against the Jewish community, one of a series of murderous acts in recent years intended to terrorize French Jews. As happened after these incidents, we know that the City of Light will rise again from the darkness and prevail over those who would seek to use terror as a blunt instrument against freedom and democracy. In the aftermath of this attack we must all rise up and say, ‘JeSuisFrancais!'”
“Paris’ Bataclan Theater was BDS and terrorist target for years,” by William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, November 14, 2015:
An uncomfortable history for some.
Of all the attacks in Paris yesterday, the attack on the Bataclan Theater was the most devastating.
French authorities said more than 80 people died in the club where California-based band Eagles of Death Metal had been playing for about an hour. When the shooting started after four gunmen entered the front of the 1,500-seat theater, dozens struggled to flee out the back alleyway as shots were being fired.
Gunmen who had entered, dressed all in black and armed with AK-47 rifles, calmly opened fire randomly at patrons who dived for cover on the floor, according to radio reporter Julien Pearce, who was near the stage when the shooting started. “The terrorists were very calm, very determined, and they reloaded three or four times,” Pearce said. “I saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor.”
But why the Bataclan, of all the theaters and gathering places in Paris?
The answer may lie in the fact that it is Jewish-owned, and has been a target for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions BDS movement and terrorist threats for years.
This history was first publicized yesterday by the French Le Point magazine (via Google Translate):
“We had a planned attack against the Bataclan because the owners were Jewish. “This sentence, chilling under the taking of hostages and the carnage that would have made this Friday,” a hundred dead, “according to police sources, was delivered to the offices of the DCRI, in February 2011. The French services then questioned members of “Jaish al-Islam,” the Army of Islam, suspected of the attack that killed a French student in Cairo in February 2009. They were planning an attack in France and had therefore taken targeted the famous Parisian theater.
Rehearsals threats
In 2007 and 2008, the Bataclan was already under the threat of more or less radical groups.At issue: holding regular conferences and galas of Jewish organizations, including the “Magav”, a border guard unit depending on the policy of Israel. In December 2008, whereas the Israeli military operation takes place in the Gaza Strip, the threats around the Bataclan are more accurate. On the Web, a video showing a group of a dozen young, face hidden by keffiyehs, threatening officials Bataclan about the organization’s annual gala Magav. At the time, Le Parisien devotes an article without this handful of activists to be truly identified. In the process, the annual meeting will be postponed.
Since then, whenever a Jewish organization meets at Bataclan, many hostile comments flourish on the Web. Yet in recent years, they seemed to have faded. Nevertheless, the Israeli press recalled that the rock band Eagles of Death that occurred Friday evening 13 had toured Israel. The group was then faced more calls for a boycott, which had not prevented from producing it.
The Tower Magazine provides this video from 2008:
Israel’s i24 News reports:
The threats against the Bataclan go back several years, with the venue often being a target of anti-Zionist groups. In 2007 and 2008, the theater received threats from radical groups due to its regular hosting of the conferences and galas of Jewish organizations, including one for the Israeli border police.
In December 2008, during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, threats to the Bataclan intensified and became more specific. A video was posted on the internet showing a group of youths with their faces masked, threatening the concert hall for its support of an event in honor of the Israeli border police.
Furthermore, pro-Palestinian associations have launched numerous petitions and encouraged their supporters to write to the authorities to protest the Bataclan’s hosting of pro-Israeli military events.
In 2011, Le Figaro reported that Farouk Ben Abbes, a Belgian national arrested in Egypt after the terror attack on a group of French students in Cairo in February that killed 17-year-old Cécile Vannier, had confessed that he “was planning an attack against the Bataclan in France.”
Three days after the attack on the French students, a report written by the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) in Cairo indicated that the teenagers had been targeted by a militant group who wanted them “to pay for France’s participation in Germinal boat blockade of Gaza” [a French-Israeli operation to stop the transfer of weapons to the coastal enclave].
In a series of arrests in May 2009, Egyptian State Security arrested seven suspects in connection with the attack on the French teens, one of whom justified possible attacks on the Bataclan on the grounds that “the owners are Jews.”
Needless to say, BDS supporters are uncomfortable with this history.
But as we know from the Paris riots in the summer of 2014 directed at the Jewish community, and subsequent violence connected to BDS, there is a connection between the frenzy directed at Israel, and violence against Jewish institutions and Jews. See several of my posts:
- Paris Synagogue attacked by Pro-Palestinian crowd carrying boycott message
- France’s Jews Fled As Rioters Burned Shops To Chants Of ‘Gas The Jews’
- Just more “pro-Palestinian” protests: Nazi salutes in Paris, “death to all Jews” in the Hague
- Boycott Movement Gang Attacks Two Jews on Paris Street
That connection may not have motivated ISIS, it’s too early to tell.
But it’s still part of the ugly history of anti-Semitic violence in France, and needs to be discussed as France and Europe decide what types of societies they will have. And whether there is a place for Jews.
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52 Comments
8 years ago
Wonder what role Clockmed played in designing the suicide vest?
8 years ago
Any reaction that blames the Jews and “Zionists” for the attack, and tries to shut down any further speech in support of Israel, is fueling the moral confusion and the attackers know it. That’s why they concentrated here.
The real purpose is to take over Europe.
It amazes me how many people actually believe that if Israel (and the Jews) didn’t exist, the problem would go away. It’s like right out of Mein Kampf and they don’t see it.
No, after all the Jews are dead, you will have the Islamic State in control of your life.
8 years ago
Reply to
El Cid
History has been generous and kind to us in knowledge and facts and reason. It’s just that we’re the cruel people that don’t deserve another breath, if we continue to spit on that history, as we’ve been doing, especially these last few years.
8 years ago
Will the French, the Americans and other Westerners immediately
stop backing islamic jihadists they are backing in Syria and instead give their full support to the Syrian Army which is the only force that can annihilate isis and all the other barbaric islamic jihadists in Syria? Will they learn from their grand mistake of replacing Arab secular rulers such as Saddam, Qaddafi, Mubarak and now Assad with barbaric genocidal islamic jihadists? Will they disassociate themselves of Saudi Arabia which is the country that sponsors the global genocidal islamic ideology of jihad and supremacism which is destroying lives and countries from Indonesia
to Nigeria?
8 years ago
Reply to
Budvarakbar
Marg Bar Iran!
DEATH to fascist Iran!
HANG all ayatollahs and their revolutionary gestapo!
LONG LIVE PERSIA!
D
8 years ago
Reply to
SCREW SOCIALISM
Take Jew friendly Persia back from neo Nazi Iran. Bring back Persia and a Cyrus type!
8 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
It was the Zoroastrians who were the Jew friendly Persians, not the worshippers of the Arabpig death cult. The Zoroastrians are a disappearing, persecuted minority in Iranistan.
D
8 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
The Shah or his father renamed Persia Iran (land of the Aryans) but he was never as unfriendly to the Jews as the government of Iran is today. Pres. Truman felt he was a modern day Cyrus because of his support for the creation of Israel (against the wishes of the entire State Department).
8 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
Cyrus wasn’t a member of the Arabpig death cult, he lived a thousand years before moe-ham-head was even born.
The Shah was a champion of human rights in comparison to what Iranistan is now. He refused to engage in hostilities against Israel.
8 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
The old moe-ham-head was a profound thinker. And if he could not think about it the old allah filled it in. Old moe-ham-head was also a severe victim by his first wife. He never got over it and ever since hates strong women or any women. We are too harsh with the old mo. He needs understanding and a big huge so he knows that we know he we are misunderstanders. If old mo only had some decent childhood, toys to play, books to read and a kindergarden all would have had been different
8 years ago
Reply to
Budvarakbar
Your math is off a bit.
ISIS (Shiite | IRAN | Russia) >>
ISIS + Iran = schism = war = ISIS bombing of Shiite mosques
Hizbullah = Shiite = Assad + Russia
8 years ago
SS Eurabia has sailed already… Dhimmi morons like merkel have sold off Europe.
What a joke by merkel… All these young immigrants would be a demographic dividend…my foot they will be a dividend !
Many are unsuited for developed economy jobs. That too it will take generations to learn German. Till then these guys leech the welfare system. They will be a capital destroying strain on the economy. They will multiply too. Then they will demand that they be fed…. Cretins in the EU are stupid for not seeing this.
Already the German migration office is saying barely 10% of the migrants have employable skills… What will the others do? Diddly squat?
SS Eurabia will meet the twin icebergs of economic downfall and demographic suicide very soon.
8 years ago
Reply to
OTempora OMores!
Their present, the future for Canada, the US, AUS and New Zealand — especially New Zealand, it would only take a million izlamic-nazis to turn their country into an izlamic state overnight and they couldn’t do anything about it except grab their ankles and bend over.
8 years ago
The U.S. and Europe have begun defending Muslims by going through Facebook and picking the handful comments made by Muslim (non-hijab types) who say that they are against the Paris attacks and using headlines to claim that Islam is peaceful, that Muslims are peaceful, etc.
I noticed that all newspapers publishing these comments are using the same Muslims over and over. The West has become more Muslim than Muslims, with its propaganda machine. I can’t believe that in MY lifetime I’m seeing the West defending its demise at the hands of Islam. I just can’t. I’m totally and completely shocked. I just don’t even know what to say anymore. The selling of Islam as a “wonderful thing” to all of us by the West is so nefarious I’m left without words.
All we can do is vote for someone who is not trying to turn our countries Muslim. As for Trump, he says nothing. He’s the ONLY ONE who says nothing anti-Muslim because he is making his money these days in business with Muslims mostly. Trump will be the one I will not be voting for in the primaries. The rest of the GOP candidates are “clean” of business dealings with Muslims.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sarita La Cubanita
“The U.S. and Europe have begun defending Muslims ”
Don’t you mean “have BEEN”
8 years ago
Reply to
Budvarakbar
Actually I should’ve said have begun defending Muslims by using the handful of Muslim Facebook posts condemming this incident. They are posts by non-hijab Muslims. And there are few of them. However, the online newspapers are repeating the same ones over and over in various online papers – same ones.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sarita La Cubanita
Yes I began wondering about that facit of DT awhile back — all those POSH hotels in the Gulf Emerites and probably Egypt – that reminds me — anyone heard any more re the Russian plane — not even crickets — oh well >> back to DT — I wonder how much of his anti-Chinese screed is related to perhaps being rebuffed on some real estate deal he may have explored with the ChiComs?
8 years ago
Reply to
Budvarakbar
Good question. Trump is SO DEEP in business with Muslims, that he cannot afford to say 1 word that can be misconstrued, which is why he sounds like Obama: never saying Muslims, only saying ISIS. Everything is ISIS to Trump. If he doesn’t, he’ll lose all his Muslim dealings. One of his latest: http://www.trumpgolfdubai.com/
8 years ago
Reply to
Sarita La Cubanita
Sorry, your post makes no sense. Trump says we should “bomb the cr ap out of ISIS”, blow up their oil supply to destroy them economically, allow the French to conceal carry and wants to keep out any more refugees aka invaders from Syria. It sounds like he understands the threat to me. You seem to just be spreading rumors and deceit is what you are doing.
8 years ago
Reply to
Frank Castle
They are already bombing ISIS and so far it does no good. We need feet on the ground, and he hasn’t said one word about that. We need to shut down all borders to Muslims, and so does Europe. We need to send back all Muslims who are related to any terrorist in any way, shape, or form. We need to CEASE allowing the building of mosques.
Further, he’s doing exactly what Obama did (and given that Trump was a Democrat and an independent it doesn’t surprise me one bit) and refusing to name Muslims as the cause of all this. He skirts around it like a little girl. Why does he skirt around it? Because practically all his business nowadays is with MUSLIMS.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sarita La Cubanita
I’ve read of Trump’s business interests in the gulf, also his reaction of the moslem attempted assassination attempt in Garland Tx, of Pamela and Robert Spencer, also Geert Wilders. Not up to speed on all his business nowadays. Please enlighten me? Thank you.
8 years ago
Reply to
Don Vito
I don’t have anything further to say except that he’s as evasive as Obama about the responsibility of Muslims, and that his businesses are very tied in and involved with Muslims. Why would someone doing so much business with Muslims be willing to speak up against Muslims? His businesses would suffer. That’s the root of his Obama-like evasiveness about Muslims. He sounds the same as Obama: “Isis this, Isis that, Isis the other.” Nothing else.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sarita La Cubanita
yes, I’ve noticed that too and wondered … we need to see what develops, but so far I agree, other than saying generally at the beginning ‘We have a Muslim problem’ he hasn’t really elaborated. Perhaps for political reasons, though. But perhaps as you said, he basically thinks the “problem” only lies with a few outliers (radicals). ISIS.
8 years ago
Reply to
Dravaa
Yes indeed.
Trump has been as evasive as Obama about the Muslim issue because he is so deeply in business with Muslims, and as president he would do their bidding. Sure, he’d keep out the Mexicans, but boy we’d be run out of town with Muslims – and living in constant danger like Europeans. Count on it.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sarita La Cubanita
Absolutely!
Trump is popular because he talks non-stop about closing the borders with Mexico. He only talks about the border with Mexico. Trump talks about no other borders. About the Muslim issue, he’s as vague as Obama is. People who are in favor of Trump favor him because of his talk about the Mexico borders, and they automatically assume, and extrapolate that to mean that he will not allow Muslims in. That’s a mistake. He has said nothing of the kind. He’s protecting his business dealings with the Muslims and will let as many Muslims in as will benefit his business dealings and if he’s elected we can sit and watch as Muslims pour in. No Mexicans, but plenty of Muslims.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sarita La Cubanita
I wonder how many millions Trump has tied up in real estate holdings in izlamic-nazi states. It’s really the perfect way the izlamic-nazis have to jerk his chain. They could just threaten to seize his assets and considering there’s no such thing as an izlamic-nazi democracy it wouldn’t be a problem.
8 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Exactly. That’s all we need – a president with so much business tied up with Muslims, that to preserve his money he’ll do anything.
8 years ago
Every so-called liberal on every American college campus who agitates for so-called “BDS” of Israel needs to take responsibility for their natural allies, the animals who committed mass slaughter in Paris.
Every one of you.
You are complicit.
8 years ago
“The French magazine Le Point reported on Saturday that a member of the radical group Army of Islam told French security services back in 2011 that “we had planned an attack against the Bataclan because its owners are Jewish.” – See more at: http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2015/11/main-target-in-paris-jihad-attack-jewish-owned-bataclan-theater-frequent-target-of-muslims-and-bds-groups.html/#sthash.IhpllOpa.dpuf”
Four years advance warning didn’t seem to do much good
8 years ago
Not only that, the band performing was also pro-Israel.
8 years ago
Oh! come on folks! we all know it is just a couple guys out for an evening stroll looking for a good time!
8 years ago
Reply to
Budvarakbar
I would’ve figured it was a spontaneous protest gone wrong about an anti-muslum youtube video.
D
8 years ago
8 years ago
It’s also a good target for them because a heavy metal concert would have lots of whites and no muslims
8 years ago
Note: See my new email to you Pamela. The cafe is NOT Jewish owned but is a strong supporter of Israel and has done fund raisers for Israeli orgs. See new news story now out.
8 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
I had thought the cafe was Jewish owned previously? I thought it had only been sold three months ago?
8 years ago
The muslums state they want to kill Jews and the enemedia translates that into anti-zionist activisim.
8 years ago
According to the Times of Israel the Jewish owners sold the Bataclan two months ago, in September. Jewish owners recently sold Paris’s Bataclan theater, where IS killed dozens http://toi.sr/1WSiQci via @timesofisrael
8 years ago
Reply to
FACTS
Well I wonder if IS knew about the change in ownership, or if it would matter?
8 years ago
Why were those French citizens standing and doing nothing while these savages were aggressively and verbally abusive to them? The stance of these guys was very threatening. Where were all the police and army guys? I thought Paris was under military lockdown should have been tons of them somewhere close.
8 years ago
Reply to
Susan
They filmed themselves, the thugs, threatening, taunting, with that show of force, while camouflaged. And to think this is going away…. is foolishness. This is either put down as in rabid animals, or succumbed to. The former option expired long ago.
8 years ago
And there it is. Paris’s Kristalnacht.
8 years ago
Cowards cover their faces.
