Last July 12, Jewish Defense League (JDL) militants provoked some participants in a Paris protest demonstration against the Israeli attack on Gaza into violent clashes in front of a synagogue in the rue de la Roquette.\u00a0\u00a0The JDL militants were protected by police, whereas several pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested.\u00a0\u00a0The incident was loudly denounced by influential pro-Israel Jewish leaders as an act of French anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
It was no accident that this incident was falsely attributed to anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
It was no accident that Jeffrey Goldberg characterized the violence as \u201cJews Trapped by Rioters in Paris Synagogue\u201d and questioned whether or not the incident was a cause for\u00a0migration.<\/p>\n
It was no accident that Avi Mayer of the Jewish Agency of Israel described the incident as an \u201canti-Semitic riot, which masqueraded as an anti-Israel rally.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was no accident that Yair Rosenberg, a writer for Tablet Magazine and employee of the Israeli State Archives, posted a video describing the incident as \u201cEuropean anti-Semitic attacks spiking during Israel\u2019s operation\u201d.<\/p>\n
It was no accident because this incident was deliberately organized in order to brand a protest against attacks on Gaza as evidence of rampant \u201canti-Semitism\u201d in France.<\/p>\n
Above all, it was no accident because it fits perfectly into an official campaign of the Israeli government to lure French Jews to leave France for Israel.<\/p>\n