Saturday, March 30, 2013

Anti-Semitism Is Alive and Flourishing in France; Rabbi Imperiled,Swastikas Carved on Synagogue

The chief rabbi of France has received a letter from an obscure organization threatening "brutal actions" against French Jewish journalists, the Jewish Press website reports today (March 30, 2013).

"Before we take brutal measures -- the only ones at our disposal -- we approach you because those corrupt journalists are Jewish," read the letter recently sent to Rabbi Gilles Bernheim in Paris. It was signed by an organization called IFO -- a French acronym for Interaction of Forces of Order.

The letter said the journalists were acting as Communist agents and attempting to "curb liberty in France."

In a separate anti-Semitic incident, unidentified individuals carved five swastikas on March 26 onto the wooden doors of a synagogue in Haguenau, in eastern France. A representative of the city's Jewish community reported the incident to police.

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