Report Reveals Record High Levels of Anti-Semitic Acts

March 21, 2005

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: RNS

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/104/story_10462_1.html

On March 21, 2005 Religion News Service reported, "The number of racist and anti-Semitic acts committed in France nearly doubled in a year, a human rights group reported Monday (March 21). The government-affiliated National Consultative Human Rights Commission found some 1,565 attacks and slurs with a racist or anti-Semitic intent were reported in France in 2004 -- a record high. By contrast, only 833 such acts were recorded the previous year, according to the commission, which used French Interior Ministry statistics. Moreover, the attacks are becoming increasingly violent, the report said. Anti-Semitic attacks injured 36 people in 2004, compared to only 22 people the year before. Many of the attacks against France's 600,000 Jews are blamed on disenfranchised French Muslim youths."