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 struggle erupted on Oct 7, 2023.
“There may be deep disappointment and outrage… on the sight of those pictures exhibiting vandalised Jewish websites,” mentioned Yonathan Arfi, head of the Consultant Council of Jewish Establishments of France (CRIF).
Paris authorities plan to lodge a criticism over the paint incident, mentioned the 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 mentioned.
Final yr, France registered 1,570 anti-Semitic acts, in accordance with 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 yr.
A number of EU nations have reported a spike in “anti-Muslim hatred” and “anti-Semitism” for the reason that begin of the Gaza struggle, in accordance with the European Union Company for Basic 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.
