Yet Another Fake “hate Attack” exposed – Rabbi Stabbed Himself
French Jews are in uproar after it has emerged that Reform Rabbi Gabriel Farhi, who was stabbed on January 3 in a much-denounced ‘attack’ which was given worldwide publicity, in fact faked the stabbing.
The truth surfaced in a report this week by the weekly magazine Marianne, which was then picked up by Le Figaro. The journal reported that police officers investigating the stabbing said it is not clear whether Farhi was actually stabbed by an unknown assailant, and they are not ruling out the possibility that Farhi in fact stabbed himself.
The report stunned French Jewry, which for the past two years has been vociferously protesting law enforcement agencies’ failure to take effective action against a large number of anti-Jewish attacks – from Muslim immigrants, who the Jews pushed to be allowed into the country in the first place.
“You can imagine what a destructive effect this affair could have on the Jewish community,” said one community leader, who asked to remain anonymous. “For two years we have been screaming about the attacks against us and the rise of anti-Semitism in France. If, God forbid, it turns out that the stabbing was staged, not just Rabbi Farhi is in trouble, all the Jews are in trouble. Who will take us seriously? And that is without even mentioning the enormous shame caused by the thought that four former prime ministers took the trouble to support the rabbi and the Jewish community. What will we do now? Apologize to them?” (…Full Article)
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