France: No concrete measures to fight anti-Semitism taken by the Government so far

Tombstones desecrated with Nazi swastikas in the
Jewish Cemetery of Cronenbourg near Strasbourg.

The Algemeiner has published its list of "non-Jews who are worthy of recognition for their positive impact on Jewish lives and the Jewish state". France's PM Manuel Valls is one of them and described as "a leader in the struggle against rampant violence facing Europe’s largest Jewish community".  But the picture should be a little nuanced.  For all the talk about his being a friend of Israel, France has always pursued an aggressively anti-Israel policy.

Valls' government backed the Palestinians’ UN Security Council resolution as reported by the Jerusalem Post:

The resolution fell one vote short of the nine needed to pass and thereby trigger a US veto. France had been working on a more moderately worded proposal to the Security Council, which it tried to merge with the Palestinian proposal but which the Palestinians ultimately rejected. Jerusalem was therefore surprised that France had then turned around and supported the Palestinian proposal, one diplomatic official said. The Palestinian resolution called for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines within three years, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital. France was one of two EU countries that voted for the proposal, the other being Luxembourg. (...)  The US and Australia voted against the measure, while Britain, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Korea and Lithuania abstained. (...) Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said the Palestinians’ failure to get nine votes for the resolution should teach them that “provocations” and attempts to impose conditions unilaterally on Israel would lead them nowhere. “The Palestinian disregard for important countries in the international arena, first and foremost the US, stems from the backing they get from some of the states in Europe,” he said, in an obvious reference to France and Luxembourg.

As to the fight against anti-Semitism in France which has been elevated to a "national cause", Roger Cukierman, president of CRIF, the representative body of French Jews, told Le Figaro that he was happy that the government had decided to tackle anti-Semitism... but he underlined that as yet no concrete measaures have been taken to fight anti-Semitism...