Thousands Of Pro-Palestinian Protesters Defy French Rally Ban

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

07/19/2014 10:30 am EDT Updated: 17 minutes ago

PARIS, July 19 (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Paris on Saturday as they defied a ban on a planned rally against violence in the Gaza strip.

A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades. Demonstrators also climbed on top of a building and burned an Israeli flag.

President Francois Hollande earlier said he had asked his interior minister to ban protests that could turn violent after demonstrators marched on two synagogues in Paris last weekend and clashed with riot police.

"That's why I asked the interior minister, after an investigation, to ensure that such protests would not take place," he told journalists during a visit to Chad.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/19/pro-palestinian-protest-france_n_5601950.html?utm_hp_ref=world

[hrmjustin]

1. Ban protests? So much for free speech!

[JackRiddler]

2. Bravo for fighting for their freedoms.

[cali]

7. except marching on Synagogues is not fighting for freedom

those inside one Synagogue were forced to barricade themselves inside. I don't think banning protests is the answer, but neither is attacking Synagogues. That's fucked up. No bravo for that.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Good for them. n/t

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. K&R n/t

[DhhD]

5. This rally may be part of the Jihad of Muslins active in Europe agaisnt the brotherhood in Gaza.

The activism has been going on for years.

http://riotsfrance.ssrc.org/Roy/


The Nature of the French Riots

By Olivier Roy

Published on: Nov 18, 2005

Olivier Roy is research director at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research). He currently lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris. His most recent book is Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (Columbia University Press, 2004).



Intifada of the suburbs, revolt of the immigrants, youth movement, uprising of the underclass, jihad of Muslims against Europe? There have been many explanations for the riots that have struck France’s suburbs in November 2005.

[JackRiddler]

8. Jihad of Muslins, again?

I so wanted mac and cheese.

[maced666]

6. Number of French Jews Emigrating to Israel Rises

For Tiffany Taieb Nizard, the decision to abandon France for Israel came this month when a French-born man was accused of gunning down four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in an anti-Semitic attack.
t was just the tipping point. Earlier, Ms. Taieb Nizard, 32, a mother of two, says she was punched on the Champs-Élysées by a gang of Muslim girls who called her “dirty Jew.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/world/europe/number-of-french-jews-emigrating-to-israel-rises-sharply.html?_r=0

[JackRiddler]

9. Yes, there's a spike early this year.

1400 in the quarter, let's see if it holds up through this year. Here are the numbers historically however: about 10,000 in the six years 2007-2012 and there have been periods with far higher flows (late 1960s).

It's the

Then again, there's also this - been happening for more than a decade, by the way:

Why are Israelis moving to Germany?
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/why-are-israelis-moving-to-germany-1.384831