According to a startling news brief published by the French weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) last Sunday, no fewer than 43 Jewish pupils have left Parisian public high schools since October 7th, the date of the Hamas massacre in Israel, due to increasing “attacks and threats” against them and the schools’ inability to “ensure their protection”.
The JDD news brief is shown below. Titled ‘Jewish Students Leave the Public System’, it reads in full:
In Paris, 43 students of the Jewish faith have joined private schools since October 7th in response to the troubling rise in attacks and threats against them. Some Principals of public high schools are sometimes intervening directly to help them join a Jewish school by picking up their phones and to warn about their “inability to ensure their protection”.
The report emerges just days after French President Emmanuel Macron paid homage to 42 French victims of the October 7th massacre in an official ceremony, calling the October 7th massacre the “biggest antisemitic massacre of our century”. Unlike former French Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande and numerous other prominent French political figures, Macron did not attend a massive non-partisan “March Against Anti-Semitism” which was held in Paris in early November. The March Against Anti-Semitism was already called as a response to the startling surge in antisemitism which followed the “biggest antisemitic massacre of our century”.
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