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fullscreenNo to racism! Against antisemitism! it says on the placards at a demonstration against anti-Semitism in Paris last November. Archive image. Photo: Christophe Ena/AP/TT
The number of anti-Semitic crimes in France has almost quadrupled in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas, a new report shows.
According to the report, published by the Jewish umbrella organization CRIF, a total of 1,676 murders of this type were recorded in 2023 compared to 436 the year before.
From the figures, collected from the country’s Ministry of the Interior and a sub-organization of CRIF, it appears that close to 60 percent of the incidents included physical violence, verbal threats or threatening gestures.
According to CRIF, the bloodshed in the Middle East has led to a wave of anti-Semitic hatred. In the three months that followed the outbreak of the war by Hamas’s bloody attack on October 7, there were as many anti-Semitic expressions of various kinds as “in the previous three years combined,” the report says.
At the same time, CRIF warns that the real figure may in fact be higher because the statistics are only based on reports to the police and other authorities.