Incidences of anti-Semitism will remain very high in 2024. According to ministerial services, personal attacks represent 63% of the incidents recorded.
The number of acts of anti-Semitism recorded in France in 2024 should approach that recorded the previous year, which marked a very sharp increase, affirmed the Minister of the Fight against Discrimination Aurore Bergé, hoping that those committed in “the university and the grandes écoles” are taken into account. “The increase in acts of anti-Semitism is quite spectacular (…), today the figures I have as of November 30, we were at nearly 1,500 acts of anti-Semitism”she said Sunday in an interview with Europe 1/Les Échos/CNewsspecifying the overall figures for 2024 will be published by the Ministry of the Interior.
According to Aurore Bergé, “Most of these facts are not just insults, they are acts of direct attack on people, either because they are Jewish or because we think that they are. ». According to its services, personal attacks represent 63% of the incidents recorded. In 2023, according to data from Crif (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France) communicated in January, the number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in the country had quadrupled over one year, with 1,676 cases.
“A simple reminder of the facts” makes “you a potential target”
“Because now, the simple fact of defending clear, republican positions, of recalling that on October 7, there were first of all terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas, of quite simply supporting the families of the hostages (…) makes you a potential target for anti-Semitic attacks”said the minister. Aurore Bergé confirmed the relaunch of the meetings to combat anti-Semitism, which had been launched in May last year, with a first meeting set, according to her ministry, at “February 13, which marks the anniversary of the death of Ilan Halimi” in 2006.
She considered that the “priority project” was that of “the university”. Evoking “absolutely intolerable and unbearable facts”, “insults”, “attempts at intimidation”reported “almost on a daily basis in universities or in major schools”she asserted: “I hear that they can be counted”. Speaking of students “prevented from going to class” or “who will hear absolutely unbearable slogans chanted right next to them”a you “feeling of absolute loneliness”she pointed “lack of courage from other students”.
Saying to deplore that“after the terrible attacks on October 7, instead of having a wave of support, we have a wave of anti-Semitism”she considered that“today we are putting a target on the back of every French Jew, because we consider that they would be co-responsible for the humanitarian situation in Gaza”.
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