Reply #44: I was responding to your inference that since Jews are not a race

[rockymountaindem]

this was just some kind of random attack, or as you put it, the French version of the missing blonde (which implies that it's not an unusual crime, just one selected for media coverage due to sensationalism). It's not a random attack, wheter Jews are a seperate race or not. It's an attack against Jews because the perpetrators *believe* Jews are a seperate race, or at least an identifiable group worth their wrath. So, whether Jews are a seperate non-white race or not, it doesn't matter in this case. This person was attacked for being a Jew, and with the history of anti-Semitism in France and the rest of Europe, I think it deserves attention.