The burning of Paris by the Red-Green Revolution

On October 17, 2026 the flames of Islamo-leftist civil war burned brightly, not far from the base of Paris’ Eiffel Tower. Within an hour the world-famous Louvre was barricaded by anarchists and Antifa rioters, while in Toulouse the terrorist flags of Palestine obscured the face of Joan of Arc’s statue. And the bust of Marianne – the symbol of the French Revolution, its Republic and its three ideals of ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’ – was toppled in Marseille.

• What is happening right now in France? What does it mean? Where is all this going?

The time is right for a palace revolution 

In 1968 a British rock group released a major hit ‘Street Fighting Man:’

Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy

Cuz summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy . . .

Hey, think the time is right for a palace revolution . . .

Hey, said my name is called Disturbance.

I’ll shout and scream, I’ll kill the king, I’ll rail at all his servants!

The spark that set France aflame began on Thursday September 17, 2026 at the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry high school in the southeastern Parisian suburb of Créteil. Some high school staff and students went on strike, blockading schools and complaining about a lack of teachers and the poor condition of some buildings. Laurent Bessiere, a mathematics teacher and union representative, presented a list of their needs: a mathematics teacher, a French teacher, a teacher of French and history, an assistant principal and half a social worker’s position. Gregg Roman of Middle East Forum explains:

On Monday September 21, students again blocked the gate to the Créteil school, and two National Assembly members (French congressmen) showed up at the gate: Louis Boyard and Clémence Guetté of La France Insoumise (‘France Unbowed’, the quasi-communist and far-left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon). On Thursday October 1, the Prime Minister’s office gave a readout to the press from France’s intelligence agencies: “Shared assessment by the intelligence services on the origin of the movement: an operation organized by LFI (La France Insoumise - ‘France Unbowed’) and its proxies on the far ​left.”

On Friday October 2, French police made 1,747 arrests. By Friday October 9, the French Justice Ministry announced that 6,877 had been arrested, 86 percent of them minors. Hundreds of police officers and hundreds of students and staff were injured.

On Tuesday October 6 President Trump on Truth Social: “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools; this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!”.

On Tuesday October 13, protestors shouted “Only one solution, revolution!” as they arrived at Place Vauban, near both the Rodin Museum and Napoleon’s mausoleum at Les Invalides (central Paris’ historic military complex).  “I am extremely proud of French students,” Swedish woke activist Greta Thunberg declared. Her visit was welcomed by Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko, a member of the far-left La France Insoumise party, or LFI, who described the city on X as “the capital of resistance and of the convergence of struggles.” Among the demonstrators was Sylvie, age 65, who waved a Palestinian flag. For her, the protest was about the ‘convergence of struggles.’ “Today in Palestine, pupils cannot go to school properly, she declared. “The only solution is LFI in power.”

The beginning of riots and the burning of cities - France’s Kristallnacht

By October 17 the student rebellion had become more intense. Leftist anti-government groups catalyzed the violence until the entire country of France was rocked by a widespread breakout of simultaneous riots – a harbinger of civil war. Volcanic street eruptions were led first by anarchists, and leftist-communists; eventually looters and Islamists joined in to intensify the attacks. Symbols of government were targeted, as well as law enforcement, shopping centers and luxury stores – and there was a specific focus on Jewish-owned shops. Journalist Paul Amar writes that Islamist rioters “came prepared.  They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners. In a street in Marseilles, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t.”

Over two dozen educational facilities were ransacked or set on fire. Trash bins, cars, and buildings were set ablaze. Protesters hurled fireworks, paving stones, and other projectiles at police. In one case a 15-year-old aimed a makeshift flamethrower at a school staff member. Hydrochloric acid was thrown at officers.

In Paris’ primarily Muslim 19^th arrondissement, the Ohalei Yaakov congregation on the Rue Burnouf was despoiled, with prayer books and tefillin/phylacteries strewn across the floor and the rabbi’s office ransacked. No French mosques were touched by the rioters, but Catholic churches were broken into in Marseille, and the St. Louis Church in Grenoble was desecrated. Parisian convenience stores were looted, but the pork products were left untouched. Rioters were filmed preventing attacks by other Islamic rioters on Muslim shop owners. Selfies were posted in front of spray-painted signs declaring: “Stop gassing us! We are not Jews!” and “Death to Zionists!”

Tobacco shops, opticians, beauty salons, pharmacies, clothing stores and other commercial establishments were damaged. Dozens of additional stores were vandalized near Porte Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement, where piles of garbage and burned bicycles were left scattered across sidewalks, with smoke still rising from the wreckage on Sunday morning.

Speaking on October 17 at a Saturday evening news conference, French Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez said approximately 550,000 people had taken part in 110 demonstrations across France, including 110,000 in Paris. Confédération générale du travail (CGT - General Confederation of Labor union) said that 800,000 had marched.

Paris police said the violent contingents were far larger than usual: small groups dressed in black pried open shop shutters between République and Bastille, and others fell in behind them to loot. “Entire streets were methodically ravaged,” Parisian Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said to reporters. At Place de la République hundreds of demonstrators chanted “Everyone hates the police!” “Revolution!” and “We are all antifascists!” They also shouted “Louis XVI: We beheaded him. Macron: We can do it again!”

Over the course of the afternoon, groups broke away from the authorized march routes and headed for Place de la Madeleine, Place Vendôme, and the Champs-Élysées, where demonstrations had been banned. On Boulevard Haussmann, looters broke into the Galeries Lafayette department store, in one of the busiest shopping districts in the city. Near the Opéra, tourists were caught in clouds of tear gas as police and demonstrators clashed. Shoppers hurried out of the area, businesses pulled down their metal shutters, and some of the main shopping streets of central Paris looked like ghost towns.

Rioters approached the Louvre art museum and within 20 minutes had blocked access to it with barricades. As soon as the traffic was stopped, the looting of luxury shops began, and Antifa/Anarchy signs were spray-painted. Approximately 400 meters from the Élysée Palace (the official residence of French President Emmanuel Macron), violent clashes erupted after rioters took control of a temporary structure at a construction site. Police stormed the structure using stun grenades, in scenes French media described as resembling “urban guerrilla warfare.”

Audelia Sitbon, a Jewish pharmacist near Paris’ Place de la République, described how rioters smashed their way into her shop, looted her stock and set it ablaze. She was left with empty shelves, shattered glass and worries about how to support her three children.

“We are not dealing with the high school movement,” Laurent Nuñez, Paris Police Chief (and Minister of the Interior) said, accusing “the ultra-left and the radical far left” of exploiting the demonstrations in order to attack police officers, businesses, and public buildings.

Fauda in France

French-Israeli Jewish actress Virginie Khalifa Hag, a star in the Israeli hit series Fauda, described the violence her mother experienced in the shop she manages on a small street near the Champs-Élysées. Her mother opened the store as usual, but rather quickly it became clear that rioting and violence were breaking out. “Suddenly, Free Palestine flags appeared as well” said her mother, who hid inside the shop until she could leave safely. “What’s happening in France is insane, but the writing was on the wall,” said Virginie. “This is not the country I grew up in. My late father always told me, ‘We grew up in Algeria. We’re not afraid.’ But today, Jews are afraid. Paris is burning. It’s really an intifada.”

Khalifa Hag described another frightening experience that a friend of her mother’s (who owns a shop near Place de la République) went through: “Rioters dressed in black suits and masks actually looted her shop, and she couldn’t stop them. There was a lot of smoke in the area.” Asked what advice she would give Jews still living in France, Khalifa Hag did not hesitate. “Be prepared to leave, because you won’t be safe in France anymore,” she said.

Marion Maréchal, the niece of far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and a politician in her own right, said on Saturday night: “The whole world is watching in astonishment and disbelief as the children of Mélenchon’s ‘New France’ destroy our country.”

A history rooted in riot and revolution

France prides itself as being the country of the French Revolution, which had played itself out on bloody Parisian streets between 1787-1799.  A short two hundred years later, in May 1968 a student revolt began in Paris, leading to a general strike involving 10 million French workers. During much of May 1968, Paris was engulfed in the worst rioting since the Popular Front era of the 1930s, and the rest of France was brought to a standstill. On May 29, 1968 the French president, Charles de Gaulle, met secretly in Baden-Baden, West Germany, with General Jacques Massu, chief of the French forces in Germany. The goal of the meeting was to ensure Massu’s support in case his troops were needed to retake Paris from the leftist revolutionaries. from

Here is a warning from Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis [CER], the primary rabbinical alliance in Europe, on October 22, 2026:

• “Defiance of authority is part of the French inheritance. But a line separates a society that challenges its institutions from one that burns them . . . France is the keystone of Europe’s political and economic order. If Paris cannot keep the peace, Europe’s confidence in its own institutions will crack with it.”

On Sunday October 18, 2026, POTUS Trump wrote: “France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country. Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!”

Yet French President Macron sidestepped the Rabbi’s and the President’s prophetic warnings,  declaring in response on that very day, that problems are simply being exaggerated by unfriendly Americans, and that French citizens are merely upset over rising fuel prices due to the USA’s ‘unjustified war’ on Iran: “We should never mix up peaceful protesters with looters and rioters, because there are people who rightfully feel that fuel prices are going too high. It’s because of the Iran war.”

France’s anti-Semitic foundations – from Voltaire to Dreyfus

Twenty years ago, on March 18, 2006, I was privileged to address a Christian conference in Paris called ‘Embrase Nos Coeurs’ (‘Embrace our hearts!’). The subject was the history of the Jews in France, and how believers can be pro-active in intercession and outreach to the Jewish community in light of that uneven history. As I reviewed French history vis-à-vis the sons and daughters of Jacob, I was struck again how German anti-Semitism and French anti-Semitism were remarkably similar in their ill-treatment of the Jews. The only basic difference between these two countries’ histories was the fact that genocidal concentration camps and gas chambers were found not on French but on German-controlled soil.

The response of the overwhelming majority of conference-goers to my message was very encouraging: nearly the whole crowd (over 1,200) stood up and walked under a huge tallis (Jewish prayer shawl) to symbolize their prayers of repentance and commitment to stand with the Jewish people if and when anti-Semitism would raise its head in France once again. But a few of the top conference leaders were incensed at this turn of events. They angrily informed me that France had already repented, and that there was no need for belaboring any such point! According to them, the Jews were no longer an issue for France, and I should never have raised the matter.

A few brief words on some aspects of French-Jewish history are crucial here, in order to unpack the fact that repentance regarding French treatment and persecution of the Jews is still by and large a ‘non-issue’ for most citizens of La République.

Before the French Revolution, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet ) in his Philosophical Dictionary fired off a sizzling insult against the Jewish people: “You are calculating animals; try to be thinking animals.” In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte expressed to his brother Jérome Napoleon: “I have undertaken to reform the Jews, but I have not endeavored to draw more of them into my realm. Far from that, I have avoided doing anything which could show any esteem for the most despicable of mankind.”

After the French Revolution and the August 26^th, 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the issue of Jewish rights was debated in the French National Assembly for three days with no conclusion reached. During the debate, Count Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre issued his infamous statement on December 23, 1789:

• “The Jews should be denied everything as a nation but granted everything as individuals. They must be citizens… there cannot be one nation within another nation. It is intolerable that the Jews should become a separate political formation or class in the country. Every one of them must individually become a citizen. If they do not want this, they must inform us, and we shall be compelled to expel them.”

Clemont-Tonnerre’s declaration was less than biblically based. Over 3,2000 years prior to his words, Balaam of Mesopotamia had prophesied by the Holy Spirit that God’s heart and strategy was preserve the Jewish people as a distinct people while in exile among the nations – for them to remain a separate people with a prophetic destiny:

• And he took up his parable, and said, “Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.’ How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? Or how shall I defy, whom YHVH hath not defied? For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel?” (Numbers 23:7-10)

The reality of God’s heart is expressed in Genesis 12:3 (ESV) where the text reveals how God has created the Jews to be a blessing. He also promises to curse any individual who despises the Jew in his or her own heart. Today those like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green or Nick Fuentes curse the Jews, fulfilling Balaam’s original intentions. These malfeasants will eventually reap what they have been sowing.

YHVH commanded the Jewish people in Exile to seek the good of their host country:

• “Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may give birth to sons and daughters; and grow in numbers there and do not decrease. Seek the prosperity of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to YHVH in its behalf; for in its prosperity will be your prosperity” (Jeremiah 29:6-7)

The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) was a major political scandal in France centered on the wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French artillery captain, on the charge of treason. The trial exposed deep-seated antisemitism and legal injustice within the Francophone world. On January 5, 1895, Dreyfus was subjected to a public ceremony of degradation in the Morlan Court of the Military School in Paris. While drums rolled, Dreyfus was accompanied by four artillery officers, who brought him before an officer of the state who declared the judgment. A Republican Guard adjutant then tore off his badges and golden stripes from his military uniform. As he was paraded throughout the streets, the crowds chanted “Death to Judas, death to the Jew.” Theodor Herzl, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and playwright, was covering Dreyfus’ trial in Paris as a correspondent for the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse. Witnessing the mob’s murderous anti-Jewish hostility, Herzl drew the obvious conclusion that European emancipation had failed. Jews would never be safe or truly accepted in European society; they needed a sovereign nation of their own. Shaken by these events, he wrote The Jewish State, which laid the political groundwork for modern Zionism – the movement for the return of the Jewish people to their ancient and prophesied homeland.

France’s anti-Semitic foundations – Napoleon’s devil’s bargain

As Napoleon Bonaparte deepened his involvement in statecraft, he decided to challenge France’s Jewish community on two scores: one, to erase any national identity they might have, any connection to the Jewish people as a distinct nation; and two, to subject Jewish religious observance to French national oversight and control. The French Revolution had severely weakened the role of Roman Catholicism for French citizens, and Napoleon wanted that same dynamic to apply to Jewish citizens of the Republic as well.  So, between February 9, 1807 and April 6 1807 he convened ‘a Great Sanhedrin‘ and demanded of the Jewish community leaders the answer to a handful of pointed questions.  Two of them are mentioned here: Do Jews born in France consider it their native country? Are they bound to obey the laws and customs of the land?

The Jewish community leaders realized that Napoleon wanted them to back-pedal their Messianic hope of a national returning to Jerusalem, and to downplay Jewish belief in the immutability of the Torah as God’s word. So they gave an answer carefully and sparingly: “The Israelite is required to consider the land of his birth or adoption as his fatherland, and shall love and defend it when called upon.”

Napoleon’s challenge presented unique dangers for France’s Jews. It could have triggered anti-Jewish pogroms, like the kind which Haman was planning for Persian Jews more than 2,200 years previously. Haman described it to Ahasuerus in this way: “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not comply with the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain” (Esther 3:8).

The denial of the Jewish people’s national identity is anti-Semitism. The denial of the Jewish people’s connection to their homeland is anti-Zionism. Napoleon had presented the people of Jacob with a Faustian bargain, in exchange for the offer of a French secular identity and a tenuous promise of tolerance. In time, the 1800’s Dreyfus Affair and the 1940-1944 Nazi collaborator Régime de Vichy made it plain to see that assimilation into France was no guarantee that French Jew-hatred would or could be stopped. Though Napoleon may have believed that his machinations with the Grand Sanhedrin were ‘good for the Jews,’ he was touching ‘the apple of God’s eye’ and triggering divine blowback by demeaning the connection between the Jewish people, their land and their calling. His intrigues caused harm to France’s divine destiny. And today Paris is burning.

France’s anti-Semitic foundations – President de Gaulle’s maledictions

French President de Gaulle was a quirky fellow. On the one hand, he denounced the anti-Jewish legislation of the fascist Vichy Regime on October 4, 1941. On the other hand, on Sunday, November 27, 1967 he publicly spoke evil of the Jewish people in the Elysée Palace, describing them as a despicable people: “The Jews, hitherto widely dispersed and who had remained what they had always been, in other words, an elite people, sure of itself and domineering.” Hubert Beuve-Méry, editor of Le Monde (published on Tuesday, November 29, 1967) said that de Gaulle’s comments carried “whiffs of antisemitism.”

Our next newsletter will delve into other French manifestations: Islamist anti-Semitism, Islamist anti-Christian and Islamist anti-French perspectives. The connection between Islamic and Leftist-Communist anti-Semitism will be revealed, and the 50-100 anti-Semitic and leftist organizations catalyzing these riots and attacks will be exposed.

How shall we then pray?

• Pray for the people of France to call upon the God of Israel and repent for their centuries-long hatred of Israel
• Pray for the political leaders of France – to receive a revelation of these divine realities and respond in obedience to God’s word
• Pray for believers in Yeshua everywhere to receive biblical and Spirit-breathed revelation about these matters, and to walk in obedience to these biblical truths
• Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth!

Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.

In Messiah Yeshua,

Avner Boskey

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