France
“I will work to eradicate the attempted distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. There is no distinction,” said United States’ new envoy to combat anti-Semitism.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who spoke at a dinner attended by leaders of the Jewish community in Paris on Wednesday, criticized a “resurgence of anti-Semitism unseen since World War II.”
On Tuesday night, more than 20,000 demonstrators gathered in Paris and other cities in response to a nationwide call for mass rallies against rising anti-Semitism in France.
Following the vandalism of 80 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the Alsace region of France, thousands of people joined rallies in Paris and across the country to publicly oppose anti-Semitism.
“It just doesn’t stop; it’s shock after shock,” said Maurice Dahan, the regional head of the Israelite Central Consistory of France, after the cemetery attack. “I don’t know how long we are going to carry on.”
The incident was part of the latest string of increasing anti-Semitic attacks in France.
Sammy Ghozlan, head of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, said the “yellow-vests” protests utilize classic anti-Semitic tropes accusing Jews of exercising disproportionate control and manipulating the government through the use of money.
“There has been no talks, whether secret or not secret, about our missile program with France or any other country,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi in a news conference on state TV.
A special team comprised of Israeli government leaders is being put together to prepare for the absorption of tens of thousands of French Jews, who are growing increasingly concerned over the rise of anti-Israeli Islamic streams in France.
The two unidentified men ripped her cellphone out of her hands and punched her in the face, asking “Are you afraid, you Jewess?”
According to a comprehensive survey among 16,300 Jews in 12 European countries released earlier this week by the European Commission and the E.U. Fundamental Rights Agency, anti-Semitism has once again spiked in France.
Several tombs were tagged with swastikas, and inscriptions were written on the walls of the cemetery, among them “Crif = Zog” or “88,” a formula used by the neo-Nazi groups to designate Hitler.
