National Observatory and Charlie Hebdo Attacks

anti-Semitic attacks: Violence on the rise Attacks on Muslims have increased substantially following the Charlie Hebdo attacks, according to Deutsche Welle. On Thursday, the French watchdog National Observatory against Islamophobia said anti-Muslim attacks increased six-fold between January and April 2015 with 222 reported cases compared to 37 during the same period last year. It will also finance a nationwide communications campaign as well as local initiatives to counter anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic violence across the country. January attacks helped highlight an already growing trend in France Meanwhile, the Kantor Center, a research institute at Tel Aviv University in Israel, released a report on anti-Semitism in 2014, with France scoring the worst among European countries: with 851 recorded incidences in 2014, the number of anti-Semitic attacks logged in France doubled year-on-year. "French Jews must no longer be scared to be Jewish" and "French Muslims must no longer be scared to be Muslim," the prime minister said during his speech. All from different origins' Following his speech, Valls and Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem visited a school in Creteil, home to a large Jewish community and one of France largest mosques. Valls also added that the program will set up a national unit to tackle the dissemination of hate speech on the Internet as well as fund educational trips to memorial sites for French students. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.