{"id":34865,"date":"2019-03-09T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34865"},"modified":"2019-03-09T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:22:57","slug":"yellow-vest-protesters-fan-flames-of-anti-semitism-in-france-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34865","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Vest protesters fan flames of anti-Semitism in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Paris (CNN)<\/cite>Recent weeks have seen black swastikas scrawled across portraits of Auschwitz survivor, Simone Veil; 96 tombs at a Jewish cemetery defaced in eastern France; and the words, &#8220;Dirty Zionist sh*t!&#8221;, hurled in anger at <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/17\/europe\/macron-yellow-vests-antisemitism-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut<\/a> by a man wearing a fluorescent yellow vest. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">These are but a few of the anti-Semitic attacks that have blighted the country in recent months. Home to Europe&#8217;s largest Jewish community, France has seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/12\/europe\/france-anti-semitic-attacks-paris-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">74% rise in anti-Semitic incidents<\/a> over the past year, according to French authorities. French President Emmanuel Macron has gone as far as to say that anti-Semitism is at its worst levels in France and in other parts of Europe since World War II.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Studies have shown anti-Semitism is rising sharply across Europe but this violent resurgence in France has triggered some deep soul-searching with many asking: what&#8217;s behind it? Why now? Some have questioned the Yellow Vest movement and whether its radical fringe is partly to blame for the sudden uptick. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (CNN)Recent weeks have seen black swastikas scrawled across portraits of Auschwitz survivor, Simone Veil; 96 tombs at a Jewish cemetery defaced in eastern France; and the words, &#8220;Dirty Zionist sh*t!&#8221;, hurled in anger at French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut by a man wearing a fluorescent yellow vest. These are but a few of the anti-Semitic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}