France: "We are forced to turn our synagogues into virtual fortresses"

Via Channel4 (h/t glykosymoritis):

Liverpudlian Andrew Hussey studied in Lyon in the 1980s and remembers that it seemed to be normal in student circles to hate Jews, black people and Arabs, while there were teachers who propagated Holocaust denial.

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Andrew Hussey says Lyon in particular has never been a good place for Jews, but it has not been so bad for a long time. Last summer, two teenage girls were arrested for allegedly planning, on social media, a suicide bomb attack at a synagogue.  [In September police foiled another terrorist plot against a Jewish event]

Lyon's Chief Rabbi Richard Wertenschlag says he regularly receives death threats, telling Channel 4 News in the video above: "We are forced to turn our synagogues into virtual fortresses."

Rabbi Wertenschlag says Jews are being targeted by the far right, but this is "minor" compared with the threat from radical Islamists.