While the greatest number of anti-Semitic acts was recorded during the May-June period, coinciding with the elections, the Jewish Community Protection Service accuses LFI of having contributed to these new records.
The numbers speak for themselves. According to the report of the Service for the Protection of the Jewish Community (SCPJ), France records for the second consecutive year a historic number of anti-Semitic acts. The number of 1,570 is announced for 2024, 1,676 anti-Semitic acts were recorded the previous year, in 2023. 10 years ago, 851 anti-Semitic acts were recorded. There were 436 in 2022, but since 2023 and Israel’s response against Gaza after the attack on October 7, the number of anti-Semitic acts has exploded in France.
Notably, 2024 recorded the highest number of acts of violence in the last decade, with no fewer than 106 physical attacks of an anti-Semitic nature, some of which were of rare violence, such as the attack on the Grande Motte synagogue or the anti-Semitic rape of a 12-year-old child in Courbevoie. Another observation: it was in May and June 2024 that the greatest number of anti-Semitic acts were recorded, coinciding with the end of the European election campaign and the vote, followed by the express campaign for the legislative elections.
LFI accused of being the mouthpiece of anti-Israeli rhetoric
Deploring “a profound deterioration of the climate towards Jews in French public space” in 2024, the SCPJ report points to several causes. First of all, the hyper-activism of a few hundred radical anti-Israeli activists, with blockades of schools and universities, boycott operations, actions and demonstrations against events organized by Jewish organizations or even the apology for Palestinian terrorism. “This climate is also the consequence of the sounding board from which anti-Israeli rhetoric has benefited, in particular thanks to the action of a political party and certain of its members,” accuses the SCPJ, which points out, without citing it , Rebellious France.
“A political body, for the first time, has become the mouthpiece of anti-Israeli rhetoric demonizing Israel, its citizens and all its supporters, particularly in France,” estimates the report, according to which, “for the “Also the first time, the subject of Palestine has been used as an electoral campaign theme by a political party, as we saw during the campaign for the European elections on June 9, 2024.” The Jewish Community Protection Service deplores “the hammering of the false accusation of genocide, as well as its corollary consisting of accusing supporters of Israel of being ‘pro-genocide'” and says, more generally , particularly worried about the future of Jews in France.