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I don't know if there are seasonal variations in antisemitic incidents in France, for whatever reason (e;g; certain festivals?), but if not, these figures from France suggest a roughly 50-fold or 5,000% increase in the rate of such attacks since 7 October. Meanwhile tjhe UK has reported a sharp rise in both Islamophobic and antisemitic crimes.Whatever one's views on the current Gaza War, this is not going to contribute in any way to a solution...........................The French interior ministry said this weekend that 719 antisemitic acts had been recorded in the three weeks since 7 October, the date of the Hamas attacks on Israel, compared to 436 for the whole of 2022.The ministry said 389 arrests had been made between 7 and 27 October but gave no further details on the people involved or the nature of the acts, which can include verbal aggression.
France, which has both Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities, has deployed 7,000 additional troops and heightened security at hundreds of Jewish schools, synagogues and other places across the country since the start of the conflict.
Violence in the Middle East has frequently led to an uptick in anti-semitic acts in France since the year 2000 and the start of the second Intifada, authorities say, with surges recorded in 2004, 2014 and 2015.
Dr Hillary J. ShawCentre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA)
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