The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has harshly criticized remarks by former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas who in an interview claimed that France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls was “under Jewish influence” because his wife is Jewish.
A journalist took to the streets of Paris to film what it is like for Jews to walk around in the predominantly Muslim areas of the French capital wearing a kippah.
President Francois Hollande vowed the state would protect French Jews with all its force as he led a ceremony Tuesday at a Jewish cemetery where hundreds of graves were vandalised.
The head of the French Jewish community, Roger Cukierman, said he was ‘’disgusted’’ by the ‘’shameful’’ comments made by a former foreign minister who claimed that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ‘’is under Jewish influence.’’
A recent parliamentary report said Britain must take urgent action to address a “disturbing rise” in anti-Semitism recorded last year, including providing public funds for security at synagogues, giving better education on the Holocaust and introducing a clearer definition of the term “anti-Semitism” that would reduce the prominence of hate crimes at public demonstrations against Israel.
''I am fed up of all these anti-Semitic acts, in their different forms that we saw on January 9 in France, yesterday in Copenhagen and today in Alsace,'' said Roger Cukierman, president of CRIF, the umbrella representative group of France’s Jewish organizations
Following the deadly terror attack at the Copenhagen’s great Synagogue on Sunday, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Director General of the European Jewish Association, called on European leaders to take action on terror against minority communities.
