One Person who did not share in the celebratory mood prevailing at the Paris Book Fair — which concluded last week having headlined with matters Israeli in honour of the state’s 60th anniversary — was Benny Ziffer, respected veteran literary editor of Ha’aretz. Having described how a group of French-Jewish youths harassed a trio of protesters from Union Juive pour la paix (French Jewish Union for Peace), ripping up their fliers and punching an elderly female protester in the ribs, Ziffer goes on in his lengthy report from the French capital’s litfest to blast what he sees as the complacent egotism of the Israeli participants, contemptuously tagging the first-class flying heavyweights Oz, Grossman and Yehoshua as “The Three Tenors”.