Boycott or Bust-Out?
French “youths” discover that torching cars isn’t the only way to express themselves:
Boycotts are perfectly legitimate free-market forms of protest — but this isn’t a boycott at all. A boycott is an organized effort to stop buying products or services from some offending source. This is an organized theft ring and nothing more. Unless they’re paying for those groceries, which would defeat the entire purpose of the protest, the Palestine Vivra group is committing grand theft and conspiracy to commit grand theft. That’s not a legitimate act of political protest; it’s thuggery. The most ironic part of this video is the frequent references to Israel’s “criminality” while the groups steals everything that they can grab … and while their fellow countrymen don’t lift a finger to stop them.
It’s not Krystallnacht, but it’s in the same league.
It’s not only in the same league, it’s only a game out of first.
Originally from Powerline, a reader there noted this sick irony:
This video is even more grotesque than you think. It was shot in a suburb of Paris called Aulnay-sous-Bois. The next-door town to Aulnay is called Drancy, about 1 mile away. Drancy was used by the Nazis between 1942-1944 as a deportation holding camp for the Jews of Paris prior to the deportation to the extermination camps in eastern Europe. 65,000 Jews passed through Drancy, of whom 63,000 were killed. In other words, the Israeli boycotters have chosen, of all the supermarkets in France, the one closest to France’s most important holocaust memorial site.
I’ll add one more detail (nothing like original content): the protesters wore green t-shirts, the traditional color of Islam (see the Hamass and Hezbollah flags). This wasn’t just a political protest turned vandalism.
This was a religious pogrom.