Thirty years later, Hattab family loses another member to anti-Semitism
Yoav Hattab, 21, was killed during the kosher supermarket attack in France; his aunt Yehudit Bucharis was killed in 1985 attack in Tunisian synagogue.
The attack at the Hyper Cacher grocery store in suburban Paris on Friday was not the first time terror has struck the family of Yoav Hattab – one of the four victims who was killed during the gruesome attack in France.
Hattab's aunt, who he had never met, was killed when she was 14-years-old during an attack on a syngagoe on the island of Djerba in Tunisia. On October 8th 1985, a local police officer opened fire during Simchat Torah prayers at the synagogue, killing three people – one of them Yehudit Bucharis. Yehudit's mother, and Yoav's grandmother, now lives in the city of Ofakim in southern Israel.
The synagogue attack in 1985 came about a week after Israel had bombed the PLO headquarters in Tunisia as part of Operation Wooden Leg. The bombing led the Jewish community of Tunisia to fear they would suffer retribution attacks. After a quiet yet tense week – which included insults and isolated incidents of stone throwing at Jewish stores – the shooting attack occurred at the Tunisian synagogue.
The gunman shot a round of submachine fire – first at the synagogue where the men were located, and later at the hostel nearby - which served as the women's section of the temple. Along with Bucharis, 5-year-old Yoav Hadad was killed along with 56-year-old Haim Cohen who worked at the synagogue.
Hattab was killed while trying to take weapon from terrorist.
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I just posted this Charlie Hebdo: first they came for the cartoonists, then they came for the Jews over in "Good Reads". Know how I found it? By reading this: What Jews can learn from Muslims The "What Jews" author, Deborah Maccoby, Executive, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, writes:
If world Jewish organisations were to learn from their Muslim counterparts and say loud and clear in response to Israeli atrocities “not in my name”, this could help to reduce antisemitism and make the recruitment of young Muslims by jihadis more difficult. Despite Freedland’s claim that Jews have “no control” over Israeli policies, such condemnation could also exert strong pressure on the Israeli government to stop its atrocities and enter into genuine peace negotiations with the Palestinian unity government.
Of course, had she bothered to actually comprehend the article to which she refers, she wouldn't have made such an ignorant comment. Because he clearly said:
(bold added)It follows that our responsibility is to thwart that effort. For Muslims, that has meant spelling out that these killers speak only for themselves. Note the speed with which a delegation of 20 imams visited the Charlie Hebdo offices, branding the gunmen “criminals, barbarians, satans” and, crucially, “not Muslims”.
Of course they should not have to do it. The finger-wagging demand that Muslims condemn acts of terror committed by jihadist cultists is odious: it tacitly assumes that Muslims support such horror unless they explicitly say otherwise. The very demand serves to drive a wedge between Muslims and their fellow citizens. (As it happens, Jews have some experience of this feeling: we too are sometimes told we have to condemn this or that action taken by others – and over which we have no control – if our place in polite society is to be secure.)
It goes to show...it always the Jews' fault! Of course, it's even better when it comes from a Jew.
As much as people are lambasting Netanyahu (and Le Pen, for other reasons) for "taking advantage" of the situation, there are plenty on the other side of the spectrum doing the exact same thing!
France has become of cauldron of bigotry, much of it anti-immigration...shocker, and the predictable target, is, of course, Jews, not just the immigrants.
You and I have both been called names at DU for condemning Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, and just like a few did that, a few DUers will call you names for discussing the situation in France. The line that anything would cross into bigotry territory is when someone makes broadbrush generalisations about an entire group of people. But it isn't bigotry to discuss things that I suspect have to do with the situation, like radicalisation of some Muslim youth who aren't immigrants, but second or third generation citizens of France. The situation seems to be different than it is here, where we have problems on a far smaller scale with radicalisation but attacks on Jews are very rare, but the whole alienation of children of parents who immigrated and made a life for themselves seems a bit similar. I don't understand it. When I was young and feeling alienated and angsty I wore black, moped around a lot, listened to the Sisters Of Mercy, and felt damn sorry for myself coz no-one understood me. I think if some charismatic religious bloke had come up to me and told me that I could find soul-mates who understood my angst and we could bond by attacking Jews and going to the Middle East to murder rape and pillage, I wouldn't have found that particularly tempting at all...
Apart from radicalisation I kind of suspect that there's other common themes between those Muslim youth and the rise of the far-right anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim groups in Europe, and that's stuff like high unemployment rates, a shit economy and the need for handy scapegoats. But when it comes to DU I suspect having any sort of constructive discussion would be doomed to failure coz there's just far too much one-dimensional black and white thinking, which isn't unusual on discussion forums...
btw, good to see you again 
That 21 year old - to me a kid - in Paris . . . Has one single thing to do with the global political climate that creates the environment for extremists to thrive - and deserved his death.
To me? That's the face of these murders. So much hope in that smile. 
I didn't know the story about the plague victims. I'll bet that did cause some animosity between the Jews and the rest of the people in towns and cities. That and the whole thing with Jews as money lenders probably were probably major causes of distrust between Christians and Jews. It's a shame that hate gets passed down in families even when the money and everything else runs out.
It's so odd to me that in this day and age, the same old bigotries are re-surfacing. People are expected to conform or face the consequences. It seems that as the world tries to become more homogeneous, there will be less and less tolerance for those who don't conform. It's sad, but I don't see any way to turn around that trend. Maybe that Jewish-controlled media can change hearts and minds. 
So unbearably sad~ RIP Yoav Hattab
