Seems the “casseur” thread – on which I reported below -- isn’t quite dead.

Today’s Le Monde has news of an open letter distributed by the Left Zionist outfit Hachomer Hatzaïr and Radio Shalom. The letter denounces the March 12th violence, comparing it to recent episodes of anti-Semitism. “For some,” the letter notes, “high school student demonstrations have become a pretext for what one might call ‘white-bashing’ ["les ratonnades anti-Blancs"]"

One of the letter’s principal signatories, the political scientist Pierre-André Taguieff, told Le Monde that he was worried by what he sees as the “communitarian [i.e., multicultural] break-up of the national community”. Taguieff continued:

“These displays of anti-Jewish and anti-French violence are part of the same real and significant ethnoracial cleavage between blacks, rebeu [a slang inversion of 'beur', or Arab], and whites. The Blacks and Maghrébins consider themselves anti-white. Part of it is class hatred but there is also a real racialization of social conflict."

Further evidence that the nations of Europe -- and especially France -- are still in the primitive stages of the multicultural experience. Come on, Pierre-André, didn’t you get the memo? Diversity is our strength.