Guardian: Five teenagers were arrested last week in eastern France for desecrating more than 300 Jewish graves. In a shocking attack, tombstones were smashed up and swastikas daubed in red paint in a cemetery in the Bas-Rhin department, where 2,605 Alsatian Jews were murdered by the Nazisduring the second world war. Less reported was that all of those caught were from traditional middle-class French families, and none had anything to do with Islam.
Roger Cukierman, a leading member of France’s Jewish community, would certainly not be interested in such inconvenient details. In an interview on Monday, the notoriously provocative head of the Crif (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France) said: “We need to say things clearly: all acts of violence against Jews today are committed by young Muslims.” Though he offered the token qualification, “of course, it’s a tiny minority of the Muslim community”, Cukierman later used the term “Islamo-fascism”, and stated thatMarine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Front National (FN) and a white Christian, was “blameless” when it came to antisemitism.
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