Some of the protests appear to have been taken over by more radical far-right or far-left groups. . French authorities said they counted 75,000 protesters Saturday across the country, including 5,500 in Paris, numbers that were less than last week's protest but produced much more violence. ...…

There was excellent piece by Adam Shatz at LRB lately about French Jean-Paul Sartre's on Israel Palestine conflict. And it's left to our site to remind readers that Wolf Blitzer once worked for AIPAC and that executive at CNN's parent company wrote frikkin speeches for Netanyahu against..…