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in its latest annual dinner at the head of the representative Council of Jewish institutions in France (CRIF), Roger Cukierman have dreamed of a context less dark. In front of some 800 people who crowded Monday, March 7 in a Paris hotel, in front of a dozen ministers and nearly as many candidates for the primary opposition, the president of CRIF, who will complete his third term in May, described the current situation of Jews in France: “We live a life cut off . We have the sinking feeling of having become second-class citizens. This ostracism isolated and traumatized. But is this the fault of the French Jews if it progresses communalism? “ Thus, according to Roger Cukierman, only a third of Jewish children are now enrolled in the public sector, many institutions no longer safe for them:” Our children are insulted or beaten there. “ Their families prefer to put them in private, Jewish or Catholic
The president of CRIF recalled the figures. Antisemitic acts account for half of xenophobic acts committed in France each year to “less than 1% of the population” . Recent years have been punctuated by assassinations of the Toulouse Jewish school by Mohamed Merah in 2012, and those of four guest Hypercacher killed in Paris by Amedy Coulibaly in January 2015.
This is Manuel Valls who replied on behalf of the executive. François Hollande, originally scheduled to attend, was finally selected in Brussels by the summit between the European Union and Turkey on the refugee crisis. “Yes, the Jews of France too often afraid , agreed the prime minister. This is a reality and that reality, we do not accept it. “
” New anti-Semitism “
Emerging from his text, which was also the President of the Republic, the Head of Government said another concern developed by Roger Cukierman, namely “reading grid distorting and unfair” applied, according to him, to Israel, to make this country “the Jewish nation, the sole target in the world of delegitimization process “. Manuel Valls criticized in turn “hatred of Israel” . “We know there is an old anti-Semitism and a new anti-Semitism , the Prime Minister said. A far-right anti-Semitism but also a far-left anti-Semitism. There is anti-Semitism of beautiful areas, there are also anti-Semitism in the neighborhoods of a radicalized youth. And then (…) there Zionism, that is to say simply synonymous with anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel. “
The head of government in passing braided laurels to Kbibech Anwar, Chairman of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) since June 2015 and this Monday night. Last year, representatives of the CFCM, then headed by Dalil Boubaker, had renounced to visit after dinner of CRIF Roger Cukierman was awarded “all violence” Semitic to “young Muslims “. “ Little by little, step by step, the Republic and Islam are building a true path to values [of] secularism, tolerance and freedom ,” assured Manuel Valls. Dalil Boubaker, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, had this time also decided not to participate in the CRIF dinner.
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