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France: Demonstration Against the President Turned Into Anti-Semitic Fray
By R. Hofner
The Day of Anger demonstrations held by several organizations this week in Paris, supposedly intended to voice protest against President Hollande's economic policies, deteriorated into violent displays of Neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic organizations, alongside fanatical Islamic organizations. The march was organized by a group of several dozen small extreme rightist groups but they were unable to attract any major movements to demonstrate their opposition to Hollande. So instead, a mass demonstration swept through the streets of Paris screaming anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slogans and saluting with the prominent gesture — the controversial "quenelle" arm downstretched gesture some say is a reverse Nazi salute — associated with the anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, and even singing the theme song of French Nazi collaborators of the Second World War.
Among other things, the demonstrators sang: "Jew, France is not your state." Organizers of the demonstrators claim that at least 120,000 people participated, while the police debunked this figure, reducing it to a mere 17,000.
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