Last Week's Quote: Rayski on the Jewish Nature of May '68

"In May '68, there had been close groups of Jews, all committed, at the head or at the grassroots, in the parties, movements, groups and cells which made up the spearhead of this insurrectionist event. From coteries and of various allegiances, even rival, they had jointly clung to the standard of the red flag and sometimes - more rarely - the [Anarchist] black. They were - and this is quite normal - minorities within these organisations, but they occupied a major place there, most certainly out of proportion to the number of Jews in France...
"All or nearly all conformed to the revolutionary ideologies of the 20th century: Bolshevism, Communism, Trotskyism, Anarchism."

Benoist Rayski,
Passages (a Jewish journal) #8,
July-August 1988.