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I feel for anyone who feels unsafe in their homes and communities. I can’t imagine the weight of the decision to uproot yourself and your family to emigrate to another country for reasons beyond your control, especially discrimination.
It’s worth noting, though, that this article seemingly goes out of its way to obfuscate what qualifies as anti-semitic acts.
Palestinian solidarity is not anti-semitism, and there are abundant indicators (from this article and its links) they’re being conflated in France.
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All your sources rely on the same primary source: the interior ministry. And I don’t see a breakdown of the acts. In a number of articles, graffiti of stars of David across buildings in France was categorized as anti-Semitic, which seems really weird to me because they weren’t defaced or altered in any way, just stars of David. On its face I would think that was…pro-semitic.
Either way, I’m not denying there has been an uptick in anti-Semitism and that any and all anti-semitism is indefensible. But there also seems to be a deliberate effort to embellish the narrative by treating anti-Israeli or pro-Paletinian acts as anti-Semitic. Then people react to that narrative with fear, and their fear is used to further credit the narrative.
The insidious part is that these stories treat the narrative as support for Israel’s ongoing aggression.
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But that’s unlikely to be what happened here: BBC
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Yeah, that’s fair, I did not have that context originally. I should have quoted the article I linked, because the salient parts point out that it was strange the graffiti evoked the Israeli flag, which I had noticed originally:
I’m inclined to agree with the BBC’s conclusion:
I notice the Times of Israel doesn’t consider this months-old information when continuing to reference it as evidence of anti-semitism.
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It “stems” from a deliberate effort to conflate them by the likes of the ADL .
Your article itself says:
Your article itself also says that the police are the source for this assertion, and goes on to say
And if that weren’t enough, it’s already demonstrated that expressing support for Palestine is being conflated with antisemitism.
So the government bans support for Palestine, the police enforce that ban, and the police say antisemitism is rising among young Muslims.
All this from the same article, that you posted. Very weak sauce.