{"id":32591,"date":"2019-02-20T05:23:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32591"},"modified":"2019-02-20T05:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:23:39","slug":"israeli-minister-tells-french-jews-to-come-home-after-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32591","title":{"rendered":"Israeli minister tells French Jews to ‘come home’ after vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli Immigration Minister Yoav Gallant has called on French Jews to “come home” to Israel<\/a>\u00a0following the anti-Semitic vandalism of a cemetery in eastern France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The desecration of the Jewish cemetery in France conjures images of dark times in the history of the Jewish people,” Gallant said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Last week, I visited the Jewish community in Paris, which is under an anti-Semitic attack and in the process of assimilation. I firmly condemn the anti-Semitism in France and call on the Jews – come home; immigrate to Israel.”<\/p>\n

Around 80 graves were discovered to have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany<\/a> in the Alsace region.<\/p>\n

Photos show the Nazi symbols in blue spray-painted on the damaged graves, one of which bears the words “Elsassisches Schwarzen Wolfe” (“Black Alsatian Wolves”), a separatist group with links to neo-Nazis in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The top security official for the region, Jean-Luc Marx, condemned “in the strongest possible terms this awful anti-Semitic act and sends his complete support to the Jewish community which has been targeted again,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

Never-ending ‘shock’<\/h2>\n

Last year, French police recorded a 74 percent surge<\/a> in reported anti-Jewish offences, causing alarm in a country that is home to the biggest Jewish population in Europe.<\/p>\n

“It just doesn’t stop, it’s shock after shock,” Maurice Dahan, the regional head of France’s main Jewish institution, the Israelite Central Consistory of France, told AFP after the attack in Alsace.<\/p>\n

Rallies are planned in Paris and other French cities on Tuesday to denounce a flare-up of anti-Semitic vandalism in recent weeks, often coinciding with “yellow vest<\/a>” anti-government demonstrations.<\/p>\n

Politicians on both the right and left have urged massive participation after a prominent French writer was the target of an anti-Semitic tirade by a protester in Paris on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Last year, 2,679 Jews from France immigrated to Israel, according to Gallant’s ministry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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