Hoax Confirmed: The Levallois-Perret Kosher Restaurant Fiasco (2023)
When anti-jewish graffiti was found at a jewish-owned kosher restaurant called ‘Mr. Schnitz’ in the suburb of Levallois-Perret outside of Paris, France in either July or mid-August 2023 (the Jewish Chronicle thinks it was mid-July, (1) while the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post think mid-August). (2) The response was predictable with Agnes Pottier-Dumas - the Mayor of Levallois-Perret – denouncing the ‘anti-Semitic act’ as ‘extremely shocking’ (3) sentiments which French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin also promptly echoed. (4)
Meanwhile Yonathan Arfi - President of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF) – began his predictable shrieking about ‘anti-Semitism on our streets’ (5) and Canaan Lidor writing in the Times of Israel added her shrill tones to the storm of semitism by citing the number of jews murdered in France in 2022 as well as the ‘number of anti-Semitic acts’ in that year. (6)
However, a mere five days after all this kvetching Arfi, Lidor, Pottier-Dumas and Darmanin were left with copious amounts of rotten egg on their faces after the French police released the first man they had arrested and promptly arrested the 74 year old jewish owner of ‘Mr. Schnitz’ who quickly confessed to having vandalized his own restaurant as a way out of a difficult commercial dispute he was engaged in with his restaurant manager. (7)
In the interests of transparency, I quote Shirli Sitbon’s predictably barebones article at the Jewish Chronicle on what happened:
‘A 74-year-old Jewish man has admitted to being behind antisemitic messages graffitied on a kosher restaurant in a suburb of Paris.
The shopfront in Levallois-Perret, an upscale area outside Paris was covered in vandalism that read “Jew” and “Jewish thief” earlier this week.
On July 19, after police arrested the first suspect spotted on security cameras, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter that he was shocked by the “unbearable” anti-Semitic inscriptions and he congratulated police for “already detaining the alleged perpetrator.”
The first person arrested was later released due to a lack of evidence and police then arrested the 74-year-old Jewish man.
[…]
Police told local media that the vandal was the owner of the commercial premises and that he was angered with the restaurant manager because he owed him rent.’ (7)
This is one of many cases of the modern form of ‘Jewish Lightning’, which traditionally refers to jews burning down their own shops when they got into commercial difficulty in order to collect the insurance money. That I contend has now switched away from insurance fraud – after all insurance companies are much harder to con than they used to be - and into the realm of ‘anti-Semitic incidents’ which drive sympathetic business, donations and even state help to said jewish-owned business and/or institution.
I have covered two such instances on Semitic Controversies so far in the form of the case of Daniel Radcliffe’s ancestor Samuel Gershon’s insurance fraud in London in the 1930s (8) and the Bagg Street Shul swastika fiasco in Montreal, Canada earlier this year (2023). (9) I plan to also cover historic cases of this kind of event but continue to cover new ones as they crop up with astounding regularity.
It also demonstrates that much like the idea behind #BelieveAllWomen in regard to sexual assault and rape – as opposed to withholding judgement and waiting for the police to dig into the events and weigh the evidence – the idea behind the moralistic outrage – which both allows this unquestioning mentality and acts as a motivating force behind said incidents – is #BelieveAllJews which is not only equally ridiculous, but also extremely dangerous given the historic jewish proclivity to make up atrocity experiences out of whole cloth and/or to heavily embellish what did happen to their material advantage.
We must always be sceptical of jewish claims and apply Occam’s Razor to them as well as the evidence behind their assertions. Remember that a key tenant of jewish dialectic is chutzpah which is what Hitler alternatively identified as the ‘Big Lie’ in Mein Kampf and has – in an irony of ironies – been subject to a ‘Big Lie’ about what the concept of the ‘Big Lie’ is.
Let us be vigilant my friends.
References
(1) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/jewish-man-confesses-to-writing-antisemitic-graffiti-on-front-of-french-restaurant-451uDp8KcoUFtH735krMe0
(2) https://www.timesofisrael.com/popular-kosher-eatery-near-paris-defaced-with-graffiti-saying-jew-and-thief/ ; https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-755421
(3) https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-755421
(4) Ibid.
(5) Ibid.
(6) https://www.timesofisrael.com/popular-kosher-eatery-near-paris-defaced-with-graffiti-saying-jew-and-thief/
(7) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/jewish-man-confesses-to-writing-antisemitic-graffiti-on-front-of-french-restaurant-451uDp8KcoUFtH735krMe0
(8) https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/daniel-radcliffes-anti-semitic-family
(9) https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/hoax-alert-the-bagg-street-shul-swastikas