Tea at Trianon: Antisemitic Attacks in America

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Antisemitic Attacks in America

From The Post Millennial:

A man wearing just underwear broke into a Los Angeles home and threatened to kill the Jewish family living there on October 25. He was later was arraigned Monday in the Van Nuys Courthouse. Daniel Garcia's social media shows that he was an avid supporter of Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newsom, and believes that Israel's governance is akin to that of Nazis. He is currently being held on $125,000 bail.

On October 25 at approximately 5:20 am, Garcia attempted to enter the victim’s home by kicking in the door while shouting antisemitic slurs including threatening to “kill Jews!” He was caught on camera shouting "Free Palestine" and "brown people matter.”
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that Daniel Garcia has been charged with threatening to kill a Jewish family in their home during the antisemitic attack. He was a field organizer for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign in 2019 and a grassroots organizer for the 2016 campaign. He worked as a volunteer to gain universal healthy care in California, worked on Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 presidential campaign as a volunteer, and also with the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee with the California State Assembly. (Read more.)