International events, not domestic ones, broke the French Jewish-Muslim antiracist alliance
Evidence
One way of understanding the disagreement of 2004 was, to put it in rather crude communitarian terms, as the breakdown of an earlier alliance of Jews and Muslims against the extreme right—under the weight of international events during the second Palestinian intifada and an irreconcilable divide over which racism to confront the most vigorously. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1329
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: how exactly did the second intifada transmit into French domestic antiracist coalition collapse?