Anti-Semitism and the Yellow-Vest Demonstrations Illustrate the Depth of Europe’s Problem
Holocaust education isn’t the answer.
February 20, 2019
Anti-Semitism and the Yellow-Vest Demonstrations Illustrate the Depth of Europe’s Problem
Holocaust education isn’t the answer.
On Saturday, a group of “yellow-vest” protestors in Paris recognized the philosopher and public intellectual Alain Finkielkraut and turned on him, yelling anti-Semitic epithets. Finkielkraut, who has never hesitated to identify himself as a Jew and a Zionist, has from its inception supported the yellow-vest movement’s criticism of Emmanuel Macron’s economic policies. But this was not the first or only instance of anti-Semitism in the movement—and elsewhere in Europe. Daniel Johnson comments:
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