Colmar, interestingly, was one of the places Voltaire stayed and worked while he was still on good terms with Frederick the Great. (Can't quite remember who controlled Alsace at the time.)

The very distrubing fire bombing of the school library in Montreal, however, doesn't fit that mold, but it does fit the M.O. of Christian terrorists if we remember back to the terror campaign against abortion clinics.

Of course, I'm sitting in a vacuum of facts right now, and speculating freely. I'm not attached to any particular list of suspects or causes, just applying Occam's butter knife. There are two events that seemed to have preceeded this latest rash of anti-semetic acts. One was the assasination of the Hamas leader, and the other was the release of the Mel Gibson movie, "The Passion of the Christ."

Given that Islamic places have also been attacked, and given that Islamic thugs traditionally claim responsibility, while Christian thugs traditionally prefer to work in the anonymous dark, I'd say they top the list of suspects at the moment.

Do the people who do this ever stop to think how they'd feel if someone desecrated their mother's/grandmother's/uncle's/aunt's grave?

Have you ever been to France, Udo? There is a thriving Jewish community there. They are part of France, a very important part.

Anti-semitism is disgusting, but so is "France-bashing". By the way, TWO heads of government in France were Jewish: Léon Blum and Pierre Mendès-France.