Fiamma Nirenstein
JNS, July 4, 2023
“As always with frenzied mass movements, this one soon came to concentrate on their perverted image of “the Jew.”
The tragic police shooting of French 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk and the ensuing massive riots cannot but recall the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in May 2020. Certainly, the context, history and cultures involved are different, but the destruction has been the same.
In the days after Floyd’s death, rioters destroyed stores, cars and entire city centers under the slogan “Black Lives Matter.” Not a single voice in the media or politics questioned that this was not just a reaction to a murder. Floyd’s death was a racist murder, and thus it was immediately assumed that the riots were a judgment on a society, a civilization, that was riven with “systemic racism.”
This attitude has since expanded into a defamatory attack on the entirety of American and ultimately Western civilization. America, the attackers hold, is racist and evil in its essence, stained forever by the original sin of slavery.
All Western nations are also implicated in such crimes, they say, and are thus considered just as fundamentally evil as the United States. They are guilty before, during and after the fact, with no hope of redemption. “White” people, in the eyes of the extremists making the charges, are inherently racist and thus inherently evil.
This is how France is currently being portrayed today in the international press: As a place of pure darkness, despite decades of French struggle to deal with the problem of social, religious and political integration.