ANTISEMITISM (ALSO SPELLED ANTI-SEMITISM OR ANTI-SEMITISM) IS HOSTILITY TO, PREJUDICE, OR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST JEWS.

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Jews in France make up 0.7% of the population, yet over half the acts of racism recorded in the country are anti-Semitic. The most recent instances include:

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Jewish graves desecrated in Westhoffen as France faces a surge of antisemitic attacks
More than 100 graves in Westhoffen cemetery were daubed with swastikas
More than 100 graves in Westhoffen cemetery were daubed with swastikas
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Adam Sage, Paris
Thursday December 05 2019, 12.00am GMT, The Times
France announced the creation of a hate crimes police unit yesterday after 107 graves in a Jewish cemetery were daubed with swastikas and antisemitic graffiti.

The incident, at Westhoffen cemetery in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region, is the latest of several similar attacks in the region and in France as a whole.

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President Macron condemned the desecration of the 16th-century cemetery, which contains the remains of an ancestor of Karl Marx. "Antisemitism is a crime and we will fight it in Westhoffen and everywhere else until our dead can sleep in peace," he said.

The Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, France, where a dozen graves were desecrated on January 5.
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The most dangerous place to be a Jew in Europe is France. That's the conclusion of an unpublished, two-year report on anti-Semitism in 11 European countries, conducted by former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly at former US Ambassador to Austria Ronald Lauder's behest.

Kelly's report concludes that the threat to the 450,000 Jews in France, the world's third-largest community (after Israel and the United States), is the most "acute." Attacks and threats against French Jews surged 74 percent from 2017 to 2018, and preliminary data for the first half of 2019 indicate "further intensification," with another 75 percent increase last year.

Moreover, the official estimates of some 500 attacks and anti-Semitic acts per year are "notoriously underreported," according to the study, which contends that "no responsible individuals or even government representatives place much credence in these numbers."

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Kelly and two fellow investigators, David Cohen and Mitchell D. Silber, both former senior NYPD counterterrorism officials, blame the French government for failing to respond to the almost-constant violence against and harassment of French Jews.

France initially overreacted to the 2015 attacks at the Bataclan and Hypercacher supermarket, but it has underreacted ever since. What the report calls the police's "catch-as-catch-can" mobile deployments to protect synagogues and other Jewish facilities "provide little or no police presence and deterrence."

To justify such indifference and what the report calls the public and private sector's "inadequate" response to the growing threat, Paris hides behind its "lip-service to France's secularism." Requests for additional government funding to address security shortfalls would likely be rejected, prominent French Jews complained to Kelly's team, since the French establishment interprets the country's "secularism ideology" to mean that the state "cannot give 'special' attention to one ethnic or religious group over another, even in the face of disparate threat or dangers."