Jewish homes in Paris were spray painted with Stars of David on Tuesday. The reported act of vandalism was the latest in a rising tide of antisemitism in France and the world since October 7.
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The buildings in the 14th arrondissement of Paris were marked similar to a Nazi-era policy, in which Jewish-owned businesses in Berlin were marked with the Star of David.
Since the terrorist organization Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, leading to a war in Gaza, the French Interior Ministry reported nearly 800 anti-Semitic incidents in France.
Une soixantaine d'étoiles de David ont été taguées sur plusieurs façades d'immeubles à Paris, Saint-Ouen et Aubervilliers. L'antisémitisme est plus que jamais présent et nous ramène aux heures les plus sombres de l'histoire de France.
Le parquet de Paris a ouvert une enquête… pic.twitter.com/izJdPqvebQ
— CRIF (@Le_CRIF) October 31, 2023
Since Oct 7, there's been an alarming rise of antisemitism. The World Zionist Organization, in partnership with the Israeli Diaspora Ministry and the Jewish Agency, published on Monday that there's been a 500% increase in anti-Semitic incidents worldwide.
The document also reported a rise of around 400% in anti-Semitic discourse on certain social networks, compared with the corresponding period last year, which was already on the rise. Furthermore, 56% of Jewish students claim to live in an atmosphere of fear.
"Some want to terrorize French Jews by using the methods of the 1930s. They must be quickly found and severely punished," the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) posted on X.
Left-wing French lawmaker Rachel Garrido responded to UEJF, saying "It's absolutely disgusting. Full support to those targeted by these anti-Semitic attacks."
Garrido's La France Insoumise (LFI) party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been criticized for refusing to describe the October 7 massacre as a terrorist attack, despite many families, children being brutally murdered and kidnapped.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
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