[ May 2, 2024 ]
The “Yellow Vest” protesters first appeared on French streets on November 17. They were reacting in fury to the hike in fuel taxes announced by President Macron, but even when Macron quickly backed down on that tax hike, the movement metamorphosed into a generalized protest against economic and social inequality. The “Gilets Jaunes” continued to show up on weekends, though in diminishing numbers, but with continued widespread public support — 72% of those polled said they agreed with the “Gilets Jaunes” protests, even if they did not themselves take part. Eventually the “Gilets Jaunes” movement made public in Le Journal du Dimanche a list of 40 long-term demands they were planning on presenting to the government, including changes on housing, taxes, health, education, and public finances. They wanted better pensions, lower housing costs, no more increases in taxes on gas and electricity, higher taxes on the rich, a jobs program, and transparency — no more surprises like the fuel tax hike — as to tax policy.
Like many people, I wondered if there was a Muslim component to the “Yellow Vest” protests. Were Muslims showing up to demand changes in French foreign policy, or to vent their anger at Israel or “the Jews,” or simply to engage, with impunity, in vandalism and theft from the luxury stores the “Gilets Jaunes” singled out for damage in their protests? For the first month of the “Gilets Jaunes” protests, it seemed that Muslims were sitting this protest out. But then, prominent among the protesters, there appeared, in person and online, a number of well-known antisemites. The most famous one is the “comedian” and antisemite M’bala M’bala Dieudonne, who started to appear at rallies, giving his famous “quenelle” — a straight-arm salute, deliberately evoking the Nazi salute, but sideways. And Dieudonne, like other antisemites (the musician Stephane Blet, the writer Alain Soral) called Macron “a puppet manipulated by those who control him,” especially “the bankers” — a clear reference to Jews, for Macron had worked for the Rothschild bank before entering politics. In one video linked to the “Gilets Jaunes” protests, “Crysalide,” seen by hundreds of thousands of people, there is mention of a “Zionist conspiracy”; in another, the musician Stephane Blet says he “f**ks the Bnei Brit and all of the sectarian and tribal mafia [the Jews] who constantly try to insult the French people.” By now it is clear that many of those protesting against Macron have attributed France’s economic ills not to him, but to those supposedly behind him — that is, the Jews, the Jewish bankers, as always in these dark fables, rich and all-powerful.
Words are followed by deeds, and the French police have opened an investigation into allegations that an elderly Jewish woman was subjected to antisemitic invective while traveling on the Paris Metro after she approached three supporters of the “yellow vests” social protest movement with a request to stop their abusive antisemitic chants and gestures.
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Three men, wearing the yellow vests, were loudly calling for Macron’s resignation, and making the “quenelle,” an inverted Nazi clue which signifies support for antisemitism, when the 74-year-old lady, Agnes, stood up from her seat, went over to them, told them that she was Jewish, that her father had been in Auschwitz, and that they had to stop making the antisemitic “quenelle” salute. They yelled at her. No one in the subway stood up to support her. She went back to her seat, uncowed, but without having managed to change their behavior.
France’s interior minister, Christophe Castaner, described the incident as “vile and unbearable,” and promised that “everything will be done to identify these individuals.”
“They must answer for their abject acts,” Castaner wrote on Twitter as reports of the incident emerged.
A small incident, but a telling one: these particular “Gilets Jaunes” have been influenced by the free-floating antisemitism that seems to have taken over a significant part of the movement, spewing out their casual hatred in a subway car. And a single elderly Jewish lady objects to them, all by herself (an act of bravery), but no one comes to her defense (many acts of pusillanimity).
By now it is clear that antisemites in France, who unsurprisingly are so often defenders of Islam, if not Muslims themselves, have taken the “Gilets Jaunes” movement in a different direction from what it was at the beginning. What began as fury over a fuel tax hike became a more general protest at economic and social conditions, and then, very quickly, antisemites saw their chance to blame the Jewish “puppet-masters” of Macron for his supposed favoring of the rich. The “Gilets Jaunes” who now show up with antisemitic and anti-Zionist signs at demonstrations, along with similar posts of such signs by the “yellow vests” on social media, and the YouTube appearances by the antisemitic likes of Dieudonne, Blet, and Soral, are frightening. The ease with which antisemitic elements managed to infiltrate the movement and turn it into a vehicle for Jew-hatred should surely give one pause. And hasn’t the ground for this antisemitism exhibited by the “progressive” left (not only in France — cf. the antisemitic and anti-Zionist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the U.K.) been prepared by the most influential current carriers of antisemitism and anti-Zionism in France, and in Europe, that is, the Muslim population? The Muslims don’t themselves have to show up to protest against the supposed Jewish puppet-masters of Macron; they can let the real puppets, their puppets, such creatures as Dieudonne, Blet, Soral, do it for them.
“These fanatics are messing up this popular movement,” Cauchy said. “We reject all racial discrimination, xenophobia, antisemitism.”
Apparently not everyone wearing those “gilets jaunes” agrees.
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24 Comments
5 years ago
reminds me of Occupy Wall Street- same references to “bankers” and “controllers”. Leftists will be leftists.. and muz always side with nazis b/c they are also anti-capitalist, leftist, collectivists and supremacists…
“The interests of Muslims and the interests of the Socialists coincide in the war against the Crusaders.” [Western civilization] ~ Osama bin Laden, February 12th, 2003,
-Al Jazeera Television in one of his ‘fatwas’ Takfiri scholar, Abu Basir, wrote in 2001 that “jihad and immigration go together…the one cannot be achieved without the other.”
“Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.” – David Pryce-Jones (1997)
5 years ago
Reply to
Isahiah62
OWS was ridiculous! They hate capitalism but have the latest and greatest gadgets and technology.
It was so bad up there in the tents, most went home of slept elsewhere due to rapes and thefts in NYC.
5 years ago
Unjust Muhammad said his Messiah would return when trees & stones would lure Muhammadists to unjustly murder Jews.
The trojan horse social media of Twitter & Facebook is a carrier of incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law, war & tyranny.
The “progressive” supporters of Trump perpetuate this indoctrinating censorship & deception.
Trump abets & promotes Twitter which is partly owned by Saudi Arabia to which he sells weapons & where Africans are enslaved, atheists tortured, killed & girls raped & clitodirectomized. Facebook is censored by for example Hamas-CAIR.
Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed today in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
We need a global government that protects the ethical values of truth, justice, love, American English, friendliness, ecology, human rights, global imperialism, freedom from religion & to atheism, healthy food (see DrAxe.com), cultivation of ecological best quality basics, support for self-realisation & the outlawing of incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law, war & tyranny globally.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Wizzy
I just hope the next throat slit by a muslim is a liberal socialist that voted to bring them in and i hope it happens many times to them.
5 years ago
it was highjacked
5 years ago
I would be very careful of attributing antisemitism to the yellow vest movement. This is much bigger than that and the Muslim invaders know it.
5 years ago
It sounds like a one off. It’s awful that no one stood up for her. It’s very sad.
Jews need to leave, France, Germany and possibly the U.K.. It’s clear the elites give lip service to anti-semitism and favor Muslims. Muslims have little reason to protest. They reject the west and the west is paying for them. I really don’t see this as a anti-semitism event. I have looked at video on these protests and have never seen Muslims part of it. Admittedly I haven’t seen all the protesters but those present and seen were white Europeans. I hope it is not hijacked. They have legitimate reasons to be protesting.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
No, the Jews of Europe — and America — need to arm and organize themselves, and prepare to fight the Muzz/Leftist Brownshirts. Where is the Jewish Defense League now that we need it?
5 years ago
Reply to
LeslieFish
The Jews should do that but the lefty ones won’t.
I am not sure but isn’t the Jewish Defense League a lefty group now too?
5 years ago
Anyone and everyone with a car in france has a yellow vest making it easy to hijack the movement.Three unnamed men do make a movement. I bought one at a thrift store for 50 cents.
5 years ago
It really is very difficult to know exactly what to believe in these days, I know very little about the Yellow Vest movement myself, so I can’t really comment.
5 years ago
Eternal, absolute, visceral, vitriolic Antisemitic hate coming from Muslims is a given but the fact that so many of the high profile, leading public figures that are part of the globalist / international left forces (finance / academia / main stream media / politics / ‘Deep State’ / Judiciary / entertainment & arts establishments / NGO’s & think tanks) are Jews, ends up undermining any real effort to subdue wide and deep Antisemitic notions / conspiracy theories that are still wide spread within the general public in Europe…
5 years ago
It’s not surprising, but I also don’t know how concerning it is. Everyone there has a yellow vest, that’s why that uniform was used. If some thugs decide to put on their yellow vests and go out and do quenelles or worse, nobody can stop them in advance. If this starts becoming common, or especially if we see Muslim influence on organizers, then I would be quite concerned.
5 years ago
Islamic forces within the Macron field of public affairs have infiltrated the protest marchers . Macron now will move against the honest workers and do a Hillary Clinton act of removing the leaders. Some will just disappear while others will have very bad accidents. I can see the hand of the Nazi SS taking form in the French Islamic police department.
5 years ago
When you have a spontaneous movement like the Gilets Jaunes it is impossible to control who joins in. Now that the Democrats have become the party of Jew hatred, I’ve felt that the Republican party is the last refuge, but now, I’m deeply disappointed that the Republican party in Tarrant County, Texas recently has allowed a Muslim into it’s leadership.
5 years ago
mobs don’t think which makes them the perfect venue for Jew haters. the french, in particular, are happy to have these anti semites at the forefront. still vichy french after all these years. Jews must leave france. they were prepared to do that and then things seemed to calm down but that was berlin 1930’s. leave now. while you still have funds and brokers can sell your property and businesses but get out and do not wait. it will get worse.
5 years ago
Uh oh, NOT good. Don’t take the anti-Semite route or you’ll play into their hands and get YOU ALL killed. Both sides.
5 years ago
All kinds of folks out there just like the clan trying to attach themselves to the right here my blessing on the nation of Israel and it’s people
5 years ago
This “protest” could have been solved in 2 days—once violence started, the tanks should have been sent in to crush the rioters.
5 years ago
I think the recent “suspected gas explosion” recently in Paris was actually the premature explosion of islamic devices intended to destroy shopping centers. Gas goes whooop, explosives go bang. That damage was definitely from a bang!
5 years ago
Wherever Muslims proliferate, anti-semitism proliferates as well. It is the nature of those who follow Islam, to turn the Christians against the Jews, and when there are enough Muslims, to turn their wrath against the Christians who supported them. During the second world war, some of Hitler’s most reliable allies were the Muslims in the Middle East. That has not changed in all that time, but has only changed tactics and practices.
5 years ago
It took a while for the anti-Semites to catch on. Why let a protest go to waste without joining in?
What better way to de-rail a protest than to turn it into a hatefest.
