With over 1,500 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7 and mid-November - three times the reported number in the entire 2022 - more French Jews seek to escape the climate of fear

With over 1,500 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7 and mid-November – three times the reported number in the entire 2022 – more French Jews seek to escape the climate of fear

  • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • ArtikBanana@beehaw.orgOP
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      10 months ago

      Marking buildings with Stars of David is how the Nazis marked Jewish homes and properties.

      There’s this article (The Guardian), which includes accounts from the police chief of Paris, and the mayor of Besancon.

      • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
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        10 months ago

        Marking buildings with Stars of David is how the Nazis marked Jewish homes and properties.

        But that’s unlikely to be what happened here: BBC

        • ArtikBanana@beehaw.orgOP
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          10 months ago

          My reply was an explanation to what you wrote in this part and why it is considered antisemitic:

          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.

          Also in the article that I have linked, the mention of this incident is immediately followed by this:

          Police now believe this was a Russian-inspired destabilisation operation rather than a home-grown intimidation campaign.

          • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
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            10 months ago

            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:

            Also the message in the medium was confusing. Conceivably a blue Israeli flag, or what immediately evokes it, could be seen as a pro-Jewish sign. Surely any genuine antisemite would have found a clearer way of expressing their hate.

            I’m inclined to agree with the BBC’s conclusion:

            As for the purpose of Operation Star of David, like all dezinformatsiya it seems to have been to sow confusion and anxiety. The fact that the symbol could be either pro- or anti-Israeli made it all the more interesting: that way both sides would be suspicious.

            I notice the Times of Israel doesn’t consider this months-old information when continuing to reference it as evidence of anti-semitism.