Valeurs Actuelles has a piece by Rachel Binhas about antisemitism in France:
Each year, several thousand French Jews leave to Israel, the United Kingdom or America. BNVCA (Bureau of Vigilance against anti-Semitism) puts the figure at between 6,000 and 8,000 Jews.
There is also an internal displacement phenomenon. In the Île-de-France region many Jews move to safer areas. "In Sarcelles, branded the "Little Jerusalem", the synagogues now stand empty," says Marc Bensimhon, the Pinto family lawyer and a member of the BNVCA.
This year, in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis), a Jewish family discovered a kalashnikov bullet and a note with insults in their mailbox. At Anet (Eure-et-Loir) another family got the message: "Hitler was right, all Jews should have been burnt in ovens".
While Jews account for less than 1% of the population, they are the target of half the racist acts committed in France. In the last fifteen years, the individuals involved in these acts are mostly of Muslim origin, very far from the skinhead affiliated to the extreme right.
read the article (in French) & Valeurs Actuelles
Related:
France: 60,000 Jews have moved out of Ile-de-France in the last 10 years
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