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France: A New Anti-Semitism

March 29, 2012

France has been stunned by an Islamist gunman’s attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse. The incident showed that France is also vulnerable to homegrown anti-Semitic terrorism.

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The perpetrator shot dead three pupils and a teacher in cold blood, days after murdering three soldiers. The brutal nature of the attacks has startled people in France. But observers report a worrying trend - a rise in anti-Semitic attacks in recent years. France’s Jewish community numbers over half a million, making it the largest in Western Europe.