{"id":41936,"date":"2019-12-14T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41936"},"modified":"2019-12-14T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T23:22:13","slug":"scores-of-jewish-graves-were-desecrated-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41936","title":{"rendered":"Scores of Jewish graves were desecrated in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Westhoffen, France (CNN)<\/cite>Guillaume Debr\u00e9 didn&#8217;t know how to break it to his young daughters and has yet to show them a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/04\/europe\/france-jewish-cemetery-swastikas-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">photograph of the swastika<\/a>. &#8220;They are markings on sacred stones, that spell out hate and in this country, we understand what that means and what it can lead to,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;To my daughters it&#8217;s just a peaceful area where their family comes from. It&#8217;s difficult for them to understand that their family, that their grave has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/11\/tech\/youtube-harassment-policy-update\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">target of hate<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But in early December, that is exactly what happened in the small village of Westhoffen in the Bas-Rhin region of Alsace, in eastern France. No one knows exactly when swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted onto 107 tombstones in the village&#8217;s ancient Jewish cemetery &#8212; the 42nd anti-Semitic attack in the region in just 18 months. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westhoffen, France (CNN)Guillaume Debr\u00e9 didn&#8217;t know how to break it to his young daughters and has yet to show them a photograph of the swastika. &#8220;They are markings on sacred stones, that spell out hate and in this country, we understand what that means and what it can lead to,&#8221; he says.&#8221;To my daughters it&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41936","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=41936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}