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Main target in Paris jihad attack: Jewish-owned Bataclan Theater, frequent target of Muslims and BDS groups

Nov 15, 2015 3:41 pm By Robert Spencer

As Pamela Geller points out here, the jihadi mass murderers in Mumbai in 2008 also went out of their way to target Jews, making a Chabad House in the city a principal site for their jihad. The Qur’an designates Jews the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82), and this manifests itself in a burning hatred that all too many Muslims have for Jews — a hatred that easily turns murderous.

This also shows how the global jihad and the BDS movement are close bedfellows.

“Paris’ Bataclan Theater was BDS and terrorist target for years,” by William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, November 14, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

An uncomfortable history for some.

Of all the attacks in Paris yesterday, the attack on the Bataclan Theater was the most devastating.

French authorities said more than 80 people died in the club where California-based band Eagles of Death Metal had been playing for about an hour. When the shooting started after four gunmen entered the front of the 1,500-seat theater, dozens struggled to flee out the back alleyway as shots were being fired.

Gunmen who had entered, dressed all in black and armed with AK-47 rifles, calmly opened fire randomly at patrons who dived for cover on the floor, according to radio reporter Julien Pearce, who was near the stage when the shooting started. “The terrorists were very calm, very determined, and they reloaded three or four times,” Pearce said. “I saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor.”

But why the Bataclan, of all the theaters and gathering places in Paris?

The answer may lie in the fact that it is Jewish-owned, and has been a target for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions BDS movement and terrorist threats for years.

This history was first publicized yesterday by the French Le Point magazine (via Google Translate):

Le Point Le Bataclan Theater Headline

“We had a planned attack against the Bataclan because the owners were Jewish. “This sentence, chilling under the taking of hostages and the carnage that would have made ​​this Friday,” a hundred dead, “according to police sources, was delivered to the offices of the DCRI, in February 2011. The French services then questioned members of “Jaish al-Islam,” the Army of Islam, suspected of the attack that killed a French student in Cairo in February 2009. They were planning an attack in France and had therefore taken targeted the famous Parisian theater.

Rehearsals threats

In 2007 and 2008, the Bataclan was already under the threat of more or less radical groups.At issue: holding regular conferences and galas of Jewish organizations, including the “Magav”, a border guard unit depending on the policy of Israel. In December 2008, whereas the Israeli military operation takes place in the Gaza Strip, the threats around the Bataclan are more accurate. On the Web, a video showing a group of a dozen young, face hidden by keffiyehs, threatening officials Bataclan about the organization’s annual gala Magav. At the time, Le Parisien devotes an article without this handful of activists to be truly identified. In the process, the annual meeting will be postponed.

Since then, whenever a Jewish organization meets at Bataclan, many hostile comments flourish on the Web. Yet in recent years, they seemed to have faded. Nevertheless, the Israeli press recalled that the rock band Eagles of Death that occurred Friday evening 13 had toured Israel. The group was then faced more calls for a boycott, which had not prevented from producing it.

The Tower Magazine provides this video from 2008:

Israel’s i24 News reports:

The threats against the Bataclan go back several years, with the venue often being a target of anti-Zionist groups. In 2007 and 2008, the theater received threats from radical groups due to its regular hosting of the conferences and galas of Jewish organizations, including one for the Israeli border police.

In December 2008, during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, threats to the Bataclan intensified and became more specific. A video was posted on the internet showing a group of youths with their faces masked, threatening the concert hall for its support of an event in honor of the Israeli border police.

Furthermore, pro-Palestinian associations have launched numerous petitions and encouraged their supporters to write to the authorities to protest the Bataclan’s hosting of pro-Israeli military events.

In 2011, Le Figaro reported that Farouk Ben Abbes, a Belgian national arrested in Egypt after the terror attack on a group of French students in Cairo in February that killed 17-year-old Cécile Vannier, had confessed that he “was planning an attack against the Bataclan in France.”

Three days after the attack on the French students, a report written by the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) in Cairo indicated that the teenagers had been targeted by a militant group who wanted them “to pay for France’s participation in Germinal boat blockade of Gaza” [a French-Israeli operation to stop the transfer of weapons to the coastal enclave].

In a series of arrests in May 2009, Egyptian State Security arrested seven suspects in connection with the attack on the French teens, one of whom justified possible attacks on the Bataclan on the grounds that “the owners are Jews.”

Needless to say, BDS supporters are uncomfortable with this history.

But as we know from the Paris riots in the summer of 2014 directed at the Jewish community, and subsequent violence connected to BDS, there is a connection between the frenzy directed at Israel, and violence against Jewish institutions and Jews. See several of my posts:

  • Paris Synagogue attacked by Pro-Palestinian crowd carrying boycott message
  • France’s Jews Fled As Rioters Burned Shops To Chants Of ‘Gas The Jews’
  • Just more “pro-Palestinian” protests: Nazi salutes in Paris, “death to all Jews” in the Hague
  • Boycott Movement Gang Attacks Two Jews on Paris Street

That connection may not have motivated ISIS, it’s too early to tell.

But it’s still part of the ugly history of anti-Semitic violence in France, and needs to be discussed as France and Europe decide what types of societies they will have. And whether there is a place for Jews.

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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 15, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    But why the Bataclan, of all the theaters and gathering places in Paris?

    The answer may lie in the fact that it is Jewish-owned, and has been a target for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions BDS movement and terrorist threats for years.

    Definitely an angle that needs exploring.

  2. Northern Virginiastan says

    Nov 15, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    The Gateway Pundit noted that Ba-ta-clan was the name of an operetta by Jacques (Jakob) Offenbach, the son of a Jewish cantor.

  3. Mathew Solo says

    Nov 15, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    Hating Jews Seems too popular to address…so hear goes…The Jewish people have certainly done their part…Science…Medicine…Law…Economics…Education…The Arts…Humor…and so much more would all be pretty lame without Them…In essence the world would be pretty much flavorless…so what seems to be The problem haters have with them…envy…considering so many millions of the worlds population has the same Family Tree and do not know it…Who Knows Who Is A Jew… Imagine That.

    Christ was born amongst these People…His Mother was One…He was One…The Greatest One…The Lion Of The Tribe of Judah…all Christ’s Apostles Were One of them…All of The Scriptures were written down exactly as God wanted by these people…and they so carefully guarded every detail of these writings …Did God make a mistake here or was Christ born exactly where He was Supposed to be…are these people indeed special…is that it…no one likes a favorite…do they.

    Maybe what they did in Rejecting Christ…Killing Him…This may be It…Yet if We could go back in time and turn the Soldier around…You know the One who shoved a spear into Christ’s Side…If we looked at This Soldiers Face…We would Each Clearly See This Is Our Own Face…right there…the rest of the story should come into place…He died to liberate All Mankind…that is Why He Died.

    Judah’s Descendants were promised a Line of Kings…Culminating in The Messiah (savior or liberator)…Mankind needed liberating…Satan had them captive… this captor would be particularly hateful to any people who were connected in any way with this liberator…when This Captor Viewed all Humans With Rage and Contempt…was any claim to any throne going to get his special attention…The Throne Christ Has Now Means He Is King of Kings and Lord of Lords…and still The Lion Of The Tribe Of Judah…This and Many Other Titles Shows Who He Is…
    All Titles The Captor…The Destroyer…The Adversary…could never Hold…Though He Covets Them intensely.

    Of Course mankind’s unjustified hate of any kind is simply a by-product of minds influence by the very attitude… He Broadcasts Through The Air Even Now…What Ever We Practice Is What We Become.

  4. Judi says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 2:51 am

    According to the Times of Israel, the theatre was sold in September and the Jewish owners moved to Israel.

  5. Elisheva says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 5:36 am

    The more Muslim Terrorism we see the more antisemitism there seems to be. The world needs to deny reality and instead blame everything on Jews or perhaps climate change. European leaders seem so inept and blind. Obama is following their lead even though he can easily prevent this terror related Immigration that he wants to bring to the US.

    • Paul says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 6:07 am

      In spite of everything that’s gone on our ‘leaders’ are still determined
      to mass import refujihadis. ISIS promised to smuggle them into Europe
      and create carnage and they did. As I say, this is by no means an issue
      of “stupidity” or “naivety”, this is calculated and evil. There can be no
      other explanation. After the umpteenth jihadi attack in a few years people
      will FINALLY get it and there’ll be a purge of the many scum traitors in our midst
      just like we’re being purged now.

  6. Paul says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 5:55 am

    What are the odds that the whole Israel-‘Palestine’ issue is used as the
    reason why all those people were gunned down inside the theatre?
    Nothing, of course, to do with many verses in the koran calling for the
    murder of non-muslims. Leftist taqiyya knows no bounds, nothing is ever
    too shameful absurd or opportunistic by their non-existent standards.

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