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Thousands of books drenched in cooking oil - that is the latest exploit of the Zionist fanatics who regularly attack property and people in Paris and get away with it.
In the early afternoon of Friday, July 3, five men, mostly masked, stormed into the "Resistances" bookstore located in a quiet residential neighborhood of the 17th arrondissement in northwest Paris. To the startled women working in the shop, as well as two customers, they announced they were from the "Jewish Defense League" and began ripping books off shelves and tables, dousing them heavily with cooking oil, and then smashing four computers before leaving rapidly in a waiting vehicle.
The bookstore is owned and operated by Olivia Zemor and Nicolas Shashahani.
In addition to a wide collection of books on the Middle East and other subjects, including fiction, the bookstore has a reading room and a lending library, gives courses in English and Arabic, and possesses a modest but well-attended auditorium where authors are invited to speak.
According to Shashahani, the store was attacked earlier in 2006, but damages were little. As for this attack, the entire shop is a shambles, with countless ruined books, and damage runs to tens of thousands of euros.
Shashahani said there is no reason to expect them to stop so long as they can count on indulgence on the part of French authorities and the silence of the mainstream media.
The vandalism on the Resistances bookstore was reported by the French news agency AFP, but the dispatch was apparently carried only by the small tabloid Le Parisien and not by the major newspapers, much less by television.
Some 300 people participated Wednesday evening in a show of support in front of a pro-Palestinian bookstore that was vandalized last week in France. The demonstrators called to dismantle the Jewish Defense League, whose members were allegedly involved in the attack on the store.
The general public remains ignorant of these aggressions, while it is regularly informed by television of even relatively minor acts of "anti-Semitism"