Israel: Jewish Population and Anti-Jewish Attacks

israel: It comes amid a rise in anti-Jewish attacks in France, which is home to the world's largest Jewish population outside of Israel and the US. Macron condemns antisemitic abuse during gilets jaunes Paris protest Read more The government has warned antisemitism is spreading like poison in France, despite the trauma still felt after 78,000 French Jews were deported to death camps, aided by the French collaborationist Vichy government, during the Nazi occupation in the second world war, according to The Guardian. Overnight on Monday a Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim in Alsace was targeted and about 80 tombs were defaced with swastikas. Political leaders from all parties, including former presidents Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, gathered in Paris, filling the Place de la Republique, to decry anti-Semitic acts with one common slogan Enough! Macron visited the national Holocaust memorial in Paris with the heads of the Senate and National Assembly. Macron visited the cemetery on Tuesday, telling local leaders and members of the Jewish community It's important for me to be here with you today. A group of men called him a dirty Zionist and told him France belongs to us . Two teenagers were arrested on Friday after they allegedly fired shots at a synagogue with an air rifle in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, home to a large Jewish community. At the weekend, on the margins of a gilets jaunes yellow vests anti-government protest in Paris, a torrent of hate speech was directed at the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, the son of a Jewish Polish leather merchant who survived Auschwitz. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.