By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
I have not been this disturbed by a news item or event in a very long time.
Yesterday I spent several hours researching and investigating a new symbol of blatant and despicable Anti-Semitism. It is called QUENELLE. A quenelle is a French pastry. But this is neither sweet nor tasteful. This quenelle is a reverse Nazi salute.
The rise of the quenelle has been seen primarily in France, its place of origin. So far it has been perpetrated almost exclusively by the French - even when they leave France. It is all over the internet and Facebook.
People take pictures of themselves doing the quenelle in popular and very inappropriate locales - individually and en masse.
It is illegal in France to use Nazi symbols or to inspire anti-Semitism. Changing the Nazi salute and inverting it by placing one hand downward while the other arm crosses the body is a way around the law.
I have added 2 hyper links to a 3 minute Youtube video and a YNET article showing pictures of neo Nazis doing the quenelle salute in front of synagogues, at Holocaust memorials and outside the notorious massive death camp Auschwitz/Birkenau. They are even seen at the Western Wall and posing with smiling Israeli soldiers oblivious to what is really being perpetrated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxlQK0g2kSk
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4464336,00.html
Once you understand what is happening, you will find this fast growing trend as frightening as I do.
The French are taking this seriously. French leadership is talking about ways to control the quenelle movement. In the meantime, the movement grows and spreads its Anti-Semitic message.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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