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Published on 17 January 2016
Charlie Hebdo editor says ‘we realised we were all Jewish’ after November 13 attack
By Naomi Firsht, published in the Jewish Chronicle January 15, 2016
This sentence was writen by the editor of Charlie Hebdo in a special edition of the magazine to mark the anniversary of the terrorist massacres in Paris last January. That week marked one year since the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher that left 17 dead.
"We are so used to Jews being killed because they are Jewish," wrote Gerard Biard in an editorial this week. "This is an error, and not just on a human level. Because it’s the executioner who decides who is Jewish. November 13 was the proof of that. On that day, the executioner showed us that he had decided we were all Jewish." Some 130 people were also killed in multiple terror attacks in Paris on November 13. Both the January attacks and those in November were carried out by gunmen with ties to Daesh.
Roger Cukierman, President of CRIF, likened the situation in France to that of the Second World War. "First the Nazis attacked the Jews before attacking everyone else," said Mr Cukierman. "I think there has been a change in state of mind. Now the population can see that all of France is targeted. I hope that today all of France is alerted to the necessity to fight in this war that has been imposed on us"... Read more.