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\ngang of young men who “appeared to be of Muslim North African origin,” attacked her on a
\nsuburban train near Paris because they thought she was a Jew. She said they drew swastikas on
\nher, cut her hair and overturned a stroller with her 13-month-old child in it, while onlookers
\nwatched and did nothing, according to an AP report<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> that
\neditorialized about on Sunday.<\/P>
\n
\nbesides me fell for the hoax and condemned the reported attack as one more loathsome
\ninstance of increasing anti-Semitic violence. In France, where hate crimes have
\nsoared<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in recent years, everyone from President Jacques Chirac to
\nhuman rights activists expressed moral outrage<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>:
\nOne French daily, Le Figaro, compared the purported onlookers who did nothing to defend the
\nwoman on “The Train of Shame” with witnesses who watched the 1964 murder of Kitty
\nGenovese on a street in Queens, N.Y., but failed to do anything either, including calling the
\npolice.<\/P>
\n
\nincorrect news story. The best I can do is quote regular Straight Up reader Shane Hockin, who
\nwrites with a wink that the hoax “sort of gives anti-Semites a bad name.” My staff of thousands
\nwishes I’d been clever enough to think of that.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"