Report: French Jewish Defense League stage attacks near Lyon

[shaayecanaan]

French police arrested six Jews they believe staged vigilante attacks against suspected anti-Semites.

The attacks occurred on Dec. 21 in Lyon and Dec. 22 in nearby Villeurbanne and are believed to have been perpetrated by members of France’s Jewish Defense League, or Ligue de Defense Juive (LDJ), the local branch of the militant group associated with the late Rabbi Meir Kahane.

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According to Le Progres, the first attack began late on Dec. 21 and was directed at an employee of the Mama Shelter Hotel in Lyon. A few small teams entered the hotel looking for the employee, who was not named, while their friends stayed outside, the report said.
In total, a few dozen men were involved in the incident, witnesses told the newspaper. The hotel’s security agents fought off the intruders and prevented them from attacking the employee. Several dozen guests were briefly evacuated from the hotel, according to the report.

In June, LDJ announced that its “soldiers” had put a young Arab in the hospital, calling it “a rapid and effective response” to the man’s attack on Jews at Saint-Mande, just east of Paris. The announcement drew calls to ban LDJ. As criticism mounted, LDJ retracted the statement and denied any involvement in the violence.

Read more: http://www.jta.org/2013/12/24/news-opinion/world/report-french-jewish-defense-league-stage-attacks-near-lyon

France’s Soaring Antisemitism Brings Out the Jewish Defense League

The Ligue de Defense Juive (LDJ) is doing what Rabbi Kahane did in New York City more than 40 years ago – making antisemites think twice before attacking.

With scooter helmets in hand, Yohan and six buddies stroll around Paris’ 20th Arrondissement looking much like a typical group of French students — until they locate a group of Arab men they suspect of perpetrating an antisemitic attack the previous day. Using their helmets as bludgeons, members of France’s Jewish Defense League, or LDJ, set upon the Arabs and beat them.

Several of the Arabs attempt to escape in a blue sedan, but the LDJ members pursue the vehicle, causing it to crash into a stone wall. The attack last August, filmed by a television crew shooting a documentary on LDJ, was one of at least 115 violent incidents that critics attribute to the group since its registration in France in 2001 — a year after the eruption of the second intifada in Israel and the sevenfold increase in antisemitic incidents in the 12 years that followed.

“Now they know the price of Jewish blood,” said Yohan—the nom de guerre of Joseph Ayache, one of LDJ’s young leaders.

Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/frances-soaring-antisemitism-brings-out-the-jewish-defense-league/2013/06/27/0/

[Jefferson23]

1. They are an embarrassment...very sad. The comments section is horrific. n/t

[sabbat hunter]

5. They are Kahanists

and are terrorists.

They are probably one of the worst things for Jews worldwide.

[King_David]

2. ''staged vigilante attacks against suspected anti-Semites.''

What makes these dudes Judges,Juries and executioners.
They just as bad as Hamas and suspected 'collaborators'

[shaayecanaan]

6. "Anti-semite" is code for "Arab"

they targeted Darrell Issa for the same purported reason, notwithstanding that the man has never said or done anything remotely anti-semitic:-

http://issa.house.gov/press-releases/2003/01/rep-issa-statement-on-guilty-plea-of-jdl-bomber/

[jessie04]

8. And "anti-Zionist " is PC code for "anti- Semite ".

You can do the math.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. They could have just targeted him for being an asshole and been right about it,

but I guess bigots can't help themselves.

[shira]

10. They say they're targeting French folks performing the nazi salute...

The victims were targeted on social networks and tracked down for performing the “quenelle,” a gesture conceived by the anti-Semitic comedian and Holocaust denier Dieudonne M’bala M’bala,the Le Progres daily reported.

On Tuesday, LDJ wrote on its Twitter account: “Two major punitive actions were carried out Saturday and Sunday in Lyon against people who performed the quenelle. The little Nazis are no longer at ease!”

Read more: http://www.jta.org/2013/12/24/news-opinion/world/report-french-jewish-defense-league-stage-attacks-near-lyon#ixzz2p1FOzmEa

[King_David]

3. from your link :

''The group, which numbers about 300 members, is now on a collision course with France’s Jewish establishment, which has condemned its activities and threatened a lawsuit.''

Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/frances-soaring-antisemitism-brings-out-the-jewish-defense-league/2013/06/27/0/

[jessie04]

4. Terrible.

I'm against these attacks.

It doesn't serve the interest of the French Jewish population.

[shaayecanaan]

7. I cant find the clip of them beating up the Arab from French TV...

but they posted their own clip showing red paint attacks and such, here:-

http://www.mrctv.org/node/117906