The French Jewish group, one of many largest on this planet, has for months been on edge within the face of a rising variety of assaults and desecrations of memorials for the reason that Gaza battle erupted on Oct 7, 2023.
“There may be deep disappointment and outrage… on the sight of those photographs displaying vandalised Jewish websites,” mentioned Yonathan Arfi, head of the Consultant Council of Jewish Establishments of France (CRIF).
Paris authorities plan to lodge a grievance over the paint incident, mentioned 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 mentioned.
Final 12 months, 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 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 battle, in accordance with the European Union Company for Elementary Rights.
In Might 2024, graffiti of purple fingers 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.
