As The Daily Wire reported last Tuesday, 80 graves in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France were defaced and vandalized overnight. Tragically, this is a hardly a particularly rare occurrence in France. Last year, authorities in France — which, for decades following World War II, has had the largest Jewish population in Europe — recorded a massive 74% increase in reported anti-Semitic offenses. Sadly, there are far too many high-profile anti-Semitic incidents over the past decade to note, but some notable flare-ups include the Toulouse shooting of 2012, the deadly kosher supermarket shooting of 2015, and the brutal murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll in 2018.
Often, “anti-Zionism” — that is, opposition to the State of Israel — has served as a fig leaf for anti-Semitism in France, as it has throughout much of the rest of Europe. For example, in July 2014, in the midst of the most recent full-scale Israel-Gaza war, “anti-Zionists” vile Jew-haters in Paris firebombed a synagogue:
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