ICEJ News reports: Recent violence surrounding pro-Palestinian rallies in Paris and other cities of France prompted French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to tell reporters on Monday that “It is unacceptable to target synagogues or shops simply because they are managed by Jews. Nothing can justify anti-Semitism, nothing can justify that kind of violence. This will be fought and sanctioned. It is not the prohibition of protest that brings violence, but the violence that brings prohibition… It is legitimate to be able to express a position, but intolerable to attack synagogues or businesses because they are owned by Jews.” Meanwhile, rates of immigration to Israel by French Jews have skyrocketed to their highest rates since the founding of the State in 1948.
