Why are there so many Palestinian flags flying amid the turmoil and destruction in France?

Widespread rioting in France by students and the Yellow Vest movement during late 2018 and 2019 continues today but the messaging by legacy media that students want better classrooms and schools is their usual disinformation campaign when the real reason for rioting is Muslim immigration, rejection of globalism, cost of living and President Macron.

https://cairnsnews.org/2018/12/10/yellow-jackets-reject-globalism-climate-change-and-macron/

A person wearing a yellow high-visibility vest with a graphic design on the back, which includes scissors, an eye within a triangle, and text in French, at a protest gathering.

‘Get rid of the Illuminati and get out of the United Nations,‘ read the yellow vests of 2018 while today Palestinian protesters hoist their petards across cities, eight years later amid the utter chaos and destruction in Parisian streets by an estimated 800,000 protesters.

PARIS, FRANCE (Worthy News) – France descended into widespread unrest Saturday as student-led demonstrations erupted into violent riots across major cities, leaving buildings burning, businesses looted and police battling masked protesters. The turmoil comes amid mounting political tensions, with Palestinian flags appearing at mass demonstrations and concerns growing over the influence of radical movements on the country’s streets.

Violence spread Saturday across Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux and other cities as police confronted demonstrators with tear gas and water cannons. According to the Associated Press, an estimated 550,000 to 800,000 people participated in approximately 110 demonstrations nationwide.

The Wall Street Journal reported that protesters vandalized government buildings and set fires as student demonstrations merged with broader protests over rising living costs, public spending cuts and dissatisfaction with President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

The unrest began in mid-September when students demanded additional teachers, improved school facilities and educational reforms. Within weeks, demonstrations spread to hundreds of schools and major urban centers.

By October 1, French authorities were describing the escalating disturbances as urban violence.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu condemned the violence, blaming radical far-left elements and criminal groups for exploiting the demonstrations.

The unrest has since drawn labor unions, university students, Yellow Vest activists and political organizations into a widening confrontation with the government.

Palestinian Flags Appear as Radical Political Movements Join Protests

The unrest has also taken on an international political dimension, with Palestinian flags appearing alongside communist banners and revolutionary slogans.

The Epoch Times reported that numerous Palestinian and communist flags were visible during an October 8 demonstration at Paris’s historic Place de la Bastille, where protesters called for a new revolution.

France Faces a Deepening National Crisis

The turmoil comes as France approaches its 2027 presidential election, with immigration, national identity, public security and economic instability already dividing the country.

The violence has intensified scrutiny of the government’s ability to maintain public order while addressing legitimate grievances among students and working families.

For a nation already confronting the threat of Islamist extremism and growing social fragmentation, the crisis raises a question extending far beyond Saturday’s demonstrations: whether the French government can restore public order while addressing the grievances that brought hundreds of thousands into the streets.

The images emerging from France reveal a country struggling with profound divisions — and a government facing increasing pressure to prevent political protests from becoming prolonged urban disorder.

In an October 9 commentary published by The Times of Israel, journalist Paula Slier questioned why Palestinian symbols had become prominent at demonstrations originally organized over shortages of teachers and deteriorating schools.

The convergence of radical-left activism and pro-Palestinian campaigning has raised questions about whether the student movement is being used to advance political causes far removed from its original demands.

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25 thought on “France in turmoil: cities burn as student protests erupt, Palestinian flags fill the streets”
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    ❞𝗢𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗹𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗥𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀.

    https://tim-shey.blogspot.com/2026/10/bourla-gates-netherlands-civil-court.html

  2. Cairns News editor doesn’t understand that if one wants an active website that is healthy and growing, it greatly helps to have people writing comments. But more importantly, what greatly increases the number of comments is the ability to reply to other people’s comments. And what increases that?…… Friction and controversy. This is a fact! Not just a handful of regulars who are talking to themselves. Ed needs to pull his head out and revamp his website with a proper comments section that allows for this. I suspect he might have to leave WordPress for this.
    P.S. And btw….Fu*k all you commenters who ever disagreed with me!

  3. Don’t tell me no one has noticed the quaint irony how Marx and Co are the founders and the inspiration behind the so called ‘communist’ element of the so called ‘Islamo Communists’ who are currently getting a bad name? Who’d have thunk that the rift between the Jews and the Muslims might ever heal let alone develop into a cooperative effort.

  4. So the little rothschild Marakon and his degenerate crew run the French and the European economies into basket cases, install neofascist and neocommunist BS regulations and laws and suddenly the Communists and the Palestinians are to blame for the unrest? Nothing like being on top of things, knowing who is really dking us and why we’re going to be the sore ass losers, right, Normies?

  5. Yeah, just like the shill-media claiming all the muslims in the USA celebrating in the streets after 9-11.
    Proven bullshit.
    But “the 5 dancing Israelis” isn’t.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/29496c1a79dfe0e0d565d844fa84831c97bac5010e465abfa0ee9c9c0c0a3592.jpg
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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e706605e3ad1e41824dbed01df5c843fcc272101bd330e68bf06b8bba24586ee.pngSo the poor Jews are under attack by the “Islamo-leftist” mob…most likely a ZIONIST false-flag and/or Jews scamming(exploiting) to get OVER-COMPENSATED by the govt. and insurance companies.
    Just like they did after the claimed “synagogue fire attack” in Australia not that long ago.
    “Hey Rabbi, watcha doing?!”
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9fa585e5fb97315bd8d99e84202abdd1ae92057caf43873eba4f4054cfc6ebc1.jpg

  6. Why do you not provide the source for that claim Neville?
    Not that there would be anything wrong with attacking Jew businesses and leaving the muslim ones alone…for now…
    But it could just as well be bullshit…or insurance scams by the “crafty” and “business-savvy” and “Holier than thou” “eternal victm” Jew owners.

  7. A French journalist research found that Jew owned businesses were being targeted while Muslim owned weren’t .

  8. You can’t help but snigger at the irony. The Palestinian flag is the banner of the Socialist/Muslim alliance. The Palestinians are merely the latest battering-ram of Europe’s EU Liberal Socialist elite.
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    As everyone’s up in arms, I’d presume the Champagne-Socialists have finally exhausted their sources of victimhood, – their beloved poor, the Africans, degenerate whites, queers, women, Muslims, prisoners, homeless, drug addicts, unemployed, mentally ill, Indigenous peoples, autists, obese, the workers, pensioners, single-parents, working moms, and their latest consumer produce, – the Palestinians, the neurologically-diverse, and next on their ever growing list – those about to lose their jobs to AI.
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    And now they’re all up in arms at their caring benefactors?

  9. Not immigrants but hirelings paid to destroy symbols for the owned M$M which asks no questions just repeats the government positions which will be – more surveillance, restrictions, controls, as we saw with the Bondi incident which ASIO waved through. And now we see in Victoria new premier Bent Carrott is also applying authoritarianism to the tobacco shop situation. If me, I would let peole grow their own chop-chop. Not so the Vic ALP. Bent Carrott says he is a breath of fresh air, no he is a stale fart, running Globalist technocracy agendas like ALL OF THEM.

  10. Paris today – Australia tomorrow!

    This has already been a contagion that has spread to Italy and Albania etc.

    where next?

    Hasn’t anybody noticed the gradual increase in violence in our country since the mass migration sponsored by Labour?

    Should we be sensible and put a stop to this madness before it gets to this point?

    Send them all back!

    No wonder labour wants to shut everyone up with their censorship bills.

    They certainly don’t want anyone to look at all this and blame THEM for it. Especially when it’s actually their fault.

    They can turn out as many propaganda buzz phrases as they want but it just so happens that diversity ISNT our strength after all.

    And everybody knows it except for them.

    If these immigrants want to riot I say round them up and put them all into Parliament House where they can take out their grievances on the ones who are actually responsible.

    Leave the rest of us in peace.

  11. The word frank comes from Frank. Being frank with someone, or honest, meant being French with them. The French were a naturally honest people, if not naive, it is this naïveté that has been used against them. Sad.

  12. Couldn’t happen to a nicer country. I wonder who the morons were who voted for Macroni? Could they be French? A bit like Aussies voting Lib/Lab/Green/Teal. Hey, bring in another million Mozzies this year Albo to shore up your vote. And hurry up and pass that hate speech law to stop anybody criticising you or Mozzies or black Africans or any immigrant.

  13. There’s only so much pounding a person will take before it starts squealing like a pig. The Frenchies have always been a little avant-garde in that respect. The rest of us will of course remain our tardy little, ‘She’ll be right, Mate”, selves.

  14. In Melbourne you just pay some kids to burn the tobacco shop, they say the trade comes through Dubai. I’m lazy I just asked the chatbot “Reports from Victoria Police indicate that some teenagers were paid as little as $500 to firebomb a tobacco shop during Victoria’s illicit tobacco wars”

  15. Is it coincidence, the present French riots spread nationwide after the September 25-28, 2026 visit to France by Pope Leo XIV?
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    It is stressed by church leaders the atmosphere that surrounded the papal visit was of unity and peace, and are calling for dialogue over violent protestation.t
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    The Pope is a crusader showering peace and love on god’s children, no doubt.
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    The Holy See has a long memory steeped in revelations and historic revolutions: I think they remember too well a French revolution that cost their nobility worldly assets, today valued in the billions and billions more in tithe from millions of superstitious, kind indoctrinated souls.
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    The world is their nobility’s oyster, has been since the Roman Empire, they adapt to the times, with a little bit of help from their friends in think tanks and banks and governments and judiciary and military enforcement and secret societies.
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    The times of feudal kings and queens were good times for religious mind control Neville: Drinking the blood of mashiah the anointed, Jesus of Nazareth and Bethlehem?, hæland the healer, crist Christ, with today’s selected and elected, SLAVE-MEDIA and censorship their choices for mass mind fuckery.
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  16. “A firefighter engulfed in flames as a youthful mob watches and laughs.

    A teacher doused in gasoline by guffawing thugs as his beloved school burns to the ground.

    A woman’s face set alight by a masked goon with a makeshift flamethrower.

    Two dozen schools burned and ransacked; cars flipped upside down; buses and fire engines savagely smashed.

    It sounds like a montage from a dystopian horror movie — but it’s happening right now in France.

    What started late last month as a protest about underfunded public schools has morphed into an orgy of Islamo-leftist violence.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/10/06/opinion/frances-riots-arent-protests-but-an-intifada-in-the-heart-of-europe/

    One more paean to what gullible fools most uni students actually are

  17. Return France to a Monarchy to remove the political threat to its existence .

  18. Joe, the French and used up refugees will own nothing, then appreciate their basic digital tokens (food stamps), offered and accepted as a choice of necessity, by the same nobility whose psychopathic minions in governments are creating chaos, anything for peace.
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    Macron, the 2030 selected destroyer, is still roaming free, kissing babies; oh the President kissed my baby, he said and I said 🤷‍♀️, and cuddles a pink list killer that force fills Russian Military cauldrons with Ukraine’s future, whilst unelected Von der Lyin’ cheers him on to the last one, himself, and a cut of the washing.
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    I find it very strange, no not really, that elected servants and department heads of the French political state, are immune from the social upheaval they have caused.
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  19. There was a big turnout, lots of arrests and the tourist office set on fire in French banking capital Lyon aka L’Yon, the locals call it Yon, rhymes with N’Apollyon and Apollyon the destroyer, not far from Geneva if you are carting your treasure back and forth. Now the French have no money thanks to giving the Africans their financial freedom, the French are doomed to poverty, I guess the Africans there will have to go home as there is no money left, a bit like Australia after Keating and Howard sold everything off.

  20. Have to wonder how many anti-immigration protests take place within the US that the Mainstream Media refuses to cover–at the request of the Democrat Party…

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