…it has been determined that the French anti-Semitic attack story was a hoax:
PARIS – Just days after claiming to having been the victim of a cruel anti-Semitic attack that stunned France, a young mother confessed she fabricated the story, authorities said Tuesday.
The woman had claimed she was robbed on a suburban train Friday by a knife-wielding gang that mistook her for a Jew and scrawled swastikas on her body.
Claudia Winkler of The Weekly Standard is analyzing the story further (Anti-Semitism and France), both in the specifics and what it means for France generally. Actually, to be honest she’s much more interested in the latter, but there you go; French perfidy is a favorite topic amongst my fellow Republicans, after all. Even when it’s being conceded that the French government did everything right in this particular case – and that they’ve got assimilation issues* that make ours look like a walk in the park.
Moe
*Not that anyone forced them to create the situation at hand, of course. On the gripping hand, their current problems are growing from seeds planted a while back. And so on, and so on…