French President : Macron wants to take a harder line against anti-Semitism

In Paris, marched in tens of thousands against anti-Semitism. It is a symbolic act, the members of the government, and former presidents such as Nicolas Sarkozy and François was Hollande's part. In the year 2018, the 541 anti-Semitic Incidents were recorded, an increase of 74 percent compared to 2017. Anti-Semitism is again the big issue in France. "Anti-Semitism spreads like a poison," said interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

For days, there are new signs that the phenomenon is on the rise. The portrait of a street artist of the late Jewish politician Simone Veil has been marked with the swastika. In Strasbourg, Jewish graves were daubed with swastikas.

The philosopher Alain Finkielkraut has called for a Demonstration of the yellow West is in Paris as a "dirty Zionist". Feast of the 36-year-old Benjamin W. was taken from the Alsace region who converted to Islam and since then, Souleyman's called. "LExpress" was declared the theme this week on the title, and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to the news magazine, anti-Semitism was anchored "very deep in the society".

time and again, anti-Semitism taking hold in France. In 2014, 851 cases were registered and in the year 2004 and 974 cases. Various sources are the cause. A few years ago showed that Islamist anti-Semitism is on the increase, there were gang wars in Paris, preachers of hate spikes in mosques for anti-Semitism. To do this, the radical right-wing anti-Semitism remains.

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historian Carole Reynaud-Paligot the most important source for anti-Semitism still looks in the movements of the extreme right: "It is a traditional anti-Semitism from the end of the 19th century. Century. He comes from a nationalist ideology." Nazi symbols indicate this flow. She looks, however, Connections to the 1930s as exaggerated. At that time anti-Semitism was widespread in France: "Today, it concerns only a minority of the French." In more recent times, that the policy of Israel is criticized, as a political scientist Nonna Mayer of Sciences Po: "Since the year 2000, depending on how the conflict between Israel and Palestine developed, it comes to anti-Semitic acts."

President Emmanuel Macron takes the issue very seriously, and said the annual reception of the Jewish umbrella organisation Crif: "anti-Semitism is not the Problem of the Jews, he is the Problem of the Republic." France, Europe and almost all of the Western democracies no longer experienced a resurgence of anti-Semitism since the time of the Second world war. The Chairman of the Crif, Francis Caliphate said: "anti-Semitism is a Signal for the weakening of democracy in our country." Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy stressed: "The state must respond with extreme Severity."

adaptation of the law against anti-Semitism

Macron has announced an adjustment of the law against anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitic Remarks can already be prosecuted as a criminal offence. The anti-Semitism Definition to be anti-Zionism supplemented. It was "one of the modern forms of anti-Semitism," said Macron. He also presented the resolution of racist and anti-Semitic groups. This includes extremes such as "Bastion sociale" or "Combat 18 Law". The President wants to exclude people from access to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, the anti-Semitic and racist Remarks spread.

so Far, the Problem has received in France over the decades, no one in the handle. Reason for this is that anti-Semitism in France is deep rooted. Of parties like the Front National, now called the Rassemblement National and its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, he was fanned again and again. His daughter, Marine Le Pen has rushed in the presidential campaign against Emmanuel Macron, as a former banker for Rothschild. Today, many French people believe surprising in a Jewish world conspiracy, according to a Ifop survey is 22 percent.

But now a new phenomenon. In the movement of the yellow West is a conspiracy to be communicated theories. About Macron, which was part of a Jewish conspiracy. The survey shows how far the world conspiracy theories are widespread in the yellow West, because they found that 44 percent believe in it. Longer, extreme-right signs and slogans show up in the course of the movement of the yellow West, defends himself against the accusation, right to be extremely undermined.

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anti-Semitism in France, Macron promises tougher action against hatred of Jews

The damage to the triumphal arch at the beginning of December on the account of the French neo-Nazis. Marine Le Pen's niece Marion Maréchal to the yellow West. Ex-Prime Minister Manuel Valls would have resorted, therefore, harder, and demonstrations prohibited, he says about anti-Semitism: "It is an Evil that has been revived."