The French Jewish group, one of many largest on the planet, has for months been on edge within the face of a rising variety of assaults and desecrations of memorials because the Gaza battle erupted on Oct 7, 2023.
“There’s deep unhappiness and outrage… on the sight of those photos exhibiting vandalised Jewish websites,” stated Yonathan Arfi, head of the Consultant Council of Jewish Establishments of France (CRIF).
Paris authorities plan to lodge a criticism over the paint incident, stated town’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo.
“I condemn these acts of intimidation within the strongest attainable phrases. Anti-Semitism has no place in our metropolis or in our Republic,” she stated.
Final 12 months, France registered 1,570 anti-Semitic acts, based on inside ministry figures.
By comparability, 436 anti-Semitic acts had been recorded in 2022, and since 2012 they’ve fluctuated between 311 and 851 per 12 months.
A number of EU nations have reported a spike in “anti-Muslim hatred” and “anti-Semitism” because the begin of the Gaza battle, based on the European Union Company for Elementary Rights.
In Might 2024, graffiti of crimson palms was painted beneath the wall on the memorial in central Paris honouring individuals who saved Jews from persecution in the course of the 1940-44 Nazi occupation of France.
