Washington D.C., Jan 17, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An increasingly violent wave of anti-Semitic words and acts in France threatens the very existence of Jewish communities there, one human rights advocacy group warned in a new report.
The attacks are “a harbinger of societal breakdown,” said Susan Corke of Human Rights First. “Left unchecked, antisemitism leads to the persecution of other minorities, and to an overall increase in repression and intolerance.”
Reported anti-Semitic hate crimes in France have more than doubled from 423 in 2014 to 851 in 2015, according to numbers cited in the report “Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Countering Antisemitism and Extremism in France” released Jan. 7 by the group Human Rights First and authored by Corke.
Typically, this article papers over the real problem: Muslim extremism. It’s not the Front National or some lukewarm Catholic anti-Semitism that’s making Jewish life in France unbearable (I’m sure there are a few Catholics in the US that also think there are too many Jews here…). It’s violent attacks by MUSLIMS. every country has a little anti-Semitic element…that’s not what drives us out. This article trips over it’s own political correctness in the attempt to avoid “Islamophobia”. My two cents.
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