The French Jewish group, one of many largest on the earth, has for months been on edge within the face of a rising variety of assaults and desecrations of memorials for the reason that Gaza conflict erupted on Oct 7, 2023.
“There may be deep unhappiness and outrage… on the sight of those photographs 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 the town’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo.
“I condemn these acts of intimidation within the strongest potential 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 have 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” for the reason that begin of the Gaza conflict, based on the European Union Company for Basic Rights.
In Could 2024, graffiti of pink fingers was painted beneath the wall on the memorial in central Paris honouring individuals who saved Jews from persecution throughout the 1940-44 Nazi occupation of France.
