microrobert
03-18-2013, 06:47 PM
Hollande in Toulouse memorial address: ‘whenever a Jew is insulted, it is an outrage to our entire country’
TOULOUSE - French President Francois Hollande delivered a ringing condemnation of anti-Jewish feeling Sunday at a memorial service to the four Jewish victims of radical Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah on the first anniversary of the Toulouse and Montauban attacks, as he recalled the French Republic’s complicity in Nazi persecution of Jews and insisted the crime that struck the Ozar Hatorah school must be called by its proper name of anti-Semitism.
Declaring war on the internet as a tool for incitement and distributing hate propaganda, he invoked the launch of an interministerial committee last month to combat racism and anti-Semitism, nit he aftermath of last year’s attacks in Toulouse and Montauban, as he called anti-Semitism an affront to the values of the Republic, concluding that “whenever a Jews is insulted it is an outrage to an entire country”.
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/65616
TOULOUSE - French President Francois Hollande delivered a ringing condemnation of anti-Jewish feeling Sunday at a memorial service to the four Jewish victims of radical Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah on the first anniversary of the Toulouse and Montauban attacks, as he recalled the French Republic’s complicity in Nazi persecution of Jews and insisted the crime that struck the Ozar Hatorah school must be called by its proper name of anti-Semitism.
Declaring war on the internet as a tool for incitement and distributing hate propaganda, he invoked the launch of an interministerial committee last month to combat racism and anti-Semitism, nit he aftermath of last year’s attacks in Toulouse and Montauban, as he called anti-Semitism an affront to the values of the Republic, concluding that “whenever a Jews is insulted it is an outrage to an entire country”.
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/65616