At least 10 Jewish homes and businesses around Paris and a synagogue in the northern French city of Rouen have been defaced, according to police, with antisemitism being considered as a motive.
The acts of vandalism came as France marked 10 years since the Paris terrorist attacks that shook the country. Twelve people were killed at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and five people were killed in the subsequent antisemitic attacks on a kosher supermarket in January 2015.
Buildings in the Parisian suburbs of Vincennes, Saint-Mandé and Fontenay-sous-Bois, many located near the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where the attacks took place a decade ago, were affected on Sunday and Monday, police said. A rabbi’s home and a synagogue in Rouen were also targeted with antisemitic messages and swastikas scrawled on the buildings.
Israel is the most anti-Semitic country around isn’t it? Jews world wide have never been so unsafe in a long time and it’s all Israel’s fault.
They’ve even made the word antisemitic lose all meaning by using it against any criticism of the state.
Ah yes, because antisemitism clearly didn’t exist before Israel was a country
Also the antisemitism is one of the main reasons Israel exists in the first place
Boy, we sure didn’t have to wait long for someone to show up and blame Israel for a French person terrorizing French Jews in Jewish spaces on the anniversary of a French terrorist killing and injuring French Jews. Predictable and tiring, but still pretty disappointing.
I mean like it or not Israel has been working to make people conflate hate for it as a state with antisemitism, and it’s working. We have people who think hating Israel is antisemitism and therefore bad, and people who think antisemitism is the same as opposing genocide and therefore good (or are using the opportunity to make their views appear more sympathetic). There’s a not insignificant chance this attack was caused or at least encouraged by the attacker conflating Israel and all Jews in the opposite direction. The comment was unnecessary I’ll admit that, but the logic checks out.