{"id":17778,"date":"2015-02-17T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17778"},"modified":"2015-02-17T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:08:06","slug":"jew-secretly-films-parisian-reactions-to-his-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17778","title":{"rendered":"Jew secretly films Parisian reactions to his religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist wearing a religious skullcap in Paris had the French public&#8217;s reaction filmed by a hidden camera.<\/p>\n<p>Zvika Klein, a reporter for Jewish news outlet NRG, walked in the city for ten hours wearing a kippah &#8211; also known as a yarmulke &#8211; on his head as well as knotted ritual religious tassels. <\/p>\n<p>Posting the video on YouTube, he wrote: &#8216;Welcome to Paris 2015, where soldiers are walking every street that houses a Jewish institution, and where keffiyeh-wearing men and veiled women speak Arabic on every street corner.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He spent a day in Paris with a bodyguard while a photographer secretly documented reactions of the public using a GoPro camera hidden in his backpack. <\/p>\n<p>He wandered through Jewish neighborhoods, around the Eiffel Tower, and then through mostly Muslim neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>In an article accompanying the video, he said tourist attractions were &#8216;relatively calm&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;but the further from them we walked, the more anxious I became over the hateful stares, the belligerent remarks, and the hostile body language,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Boys shouted &#8216;Viva Palestine&#8217; and as he passes a group of youths, one remarks: &#8216;I&#8217;m joking, the dog will not eat you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers were pointed at him in a cafe &#8211; and moments later, thugs awaited him on a street corner, he adds.<\/p>\n<p>A little boy was shocked at his appearance in his neighbourhood, he reports. &#8216;What is he doing here Mommy?&#8217; he asked. &#8216;Doesn\u2019t he know he will be killed?&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Israeli premier Netanyahu said Europe was no longer a safe haven for Jews following attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, adding that Israel is now the only country in the world where Jews can feel safe. <\/p>\n<p>His comments sparked fury from Jewish groups and were promptly refuted by the leaders of France, Germany and Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Klein&#8217;s video shows, in Paris, Jews &#8216;are barred from entering certain areas&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist wearing a religious skullcap in Paris had the French public&#8217;s reaction filmed by a hidden camera. Zvika Klein, a reporter for Jewish news outlet NRG, walked in the city for ten hours wearing a kippah &#8211; also known as a yarmulke &#8211; on his head as well as knotted ritual religious tassels. Posting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jew secretly films Parisian reactions to his religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[902,11021,6056,534,178,11020,3623,664,1004],"class_list":["post-17778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-anti-semitism","tag-arabic","tag-denmark","tag-france","tag-israel","tag-jew","tag-muslim","tag-palestine","tag-paris"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17779,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions\/17779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}