Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47300117
About 70 protests have happened in cities around France, including in
Paris' Place de la République. In France, high-profile anti-Semitic acts have been
occurring a lot recently. France has the biggest Jewish population in Europe,
about 550,000 people. Protesters have been going around, protesting, with signs
that read “That’s Enough”. Portraits a of late Holocaust survivor, Simone Veil,
have been destroyed, and a tree in memory of a Jewish youth tortured to death
by an anti-Semitic gang was cut down. Also, nearly 100 Jewish graves have been
ruined with Nazi symbols. During a visit to the cemetery where Jewish graves were
ruined, French President Emmanuel Macron said “Whoever did this is not worthy
of the French republic and will be punished”. Statistics show that anti-Semitic attacks
in France had a rise of 74% from 2017 to 2018 (311 to 541).
Paris' Place de la République. In France, high-profile anti-Semitic acts have been
occurring a lot recently. France has the biggest Jewish population in Europe,
about 550,000 people. Protesters have been going around, protesting, with signs
that read “That’s Enough”. Portraits a of late Holocaust survivor, Simone Veil,
have been destroyed, and a tree in memory of a Jewish youth tortured to death
by an anti-Semitic gang was cut down. Also, nearly 100 Jewish graves have been
ruined with Nazi symbols. During a visit to the cemetery where Jewish graves were
ruined, French President Emmanuel Macron said “Whoever did this is not worthy
of the French republic and will be punished”. Statistics show that anti-Semitic attacks
in France had a rise of 74% from 2017 to 2018 (311 to 541).
Discussion Questions:
Why do you think anti-Semitic attacks are still going on today, in 2019?
What do you think the punishment should be for whoever did these acts?
How do you think the French government or anywhere around the world
could put a stop to anti-Semitic attacks?
Why do you think anti-Semitic attacks are still going on today, in 2019?
What do you think the punishment should be for whoever did these acts?
How do you think the French government or anywhere around the world
could put a stop to anti-Semitic attacks?
My lord the anti-Semitic people are hella wack. I think they should be either charged for the vandalism of other peoples property or they should just simply be thrown into jail for like 2-3 years. :) -Rani M.
ReplyDeleteThe punishment for people who do these acts and decide to vandalise the properties of other people should get sentenced to prison for a few years and then maybe other people will stop vandalising properties that don't belong to them because they will see how severe the consequences are.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is horrible that they are ruining graves in the first place because that is very disrespectful. It just makes it a whole lot worse when they are discriminating against a specific religion just because that is what they are taught to do. I believe that France should educate everyone on how serious the matter is. I think there should be laws and reinforcement to stop this.
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