Violent anti-Jewish riots in Paris today (July 13, 2014) -- sparked by Israel's ongoing operation in Gaza to halt rocket attacks from the coastal enclave -- left Jews in the French capital fearing for their lives. One French Jewish activist warned: "French Jews are in serious danger," the Algemeiner (Jewish) website reports.
An anti-Israel demonstration at the city's Bastille Square quickly turned violent with protesters seeking out and attacking Jewish targets and screaming "death to Jews" and "Hitler was right," according to community newspaper, JSS News.
Hundreds of Parisian Jews were trapped in a synagogue while rioters threw stones and bricks. The group was initially thought to be held hostage and was freed to leave the center only after police intervention. A Jewish-owned store on rue de la Roquette was trashed by 50 men with iron bars and a young man was hospitalized nearby, according to reports.
"What we are witnessing in Paris today is extremely, extremely serious. Jews are in peril for their lives," New York-based French Jewish artist and activist, Ron Agam, told the Algemeiner website.
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