Monday, August 25, Paris summoned the United States ambassador to France after an accusation of passivity in the face of the “flambé of anti-Semitism”. If the figures on anti -Semitism in France remain rather stable between 2023 and 2024, they are in very clear increase compared to 2022.
In a letter dated Sunday August 24, the United States ambassador to France reports on his “deep concern in the face of the outbreak of anti-Semitism in France”.
For its part, the government ensures that it takes all the measures to ensure “total mobilization” against acts deemed “intolerable”.
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Every year, the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ) publishes the figures for the year on anti -Semitism in France. It is based on complaints for anti -Semitic acts communicated to the Ministry of the Interior.
649 anti -Semitic acts since January 2025
Thus, for the year 2024, 1,570 anti -Semitic acts were recorded, against 1,676 in 2023. A very slight drop but which is nothing compared to the increase in these figures compared to the year 2022. Thus, the organization had only 436 acts per year three years ago.
In addition, the monthly average amounts to 130 acts per month over the year 2024 and acts of violence have been at an unprecedented level in the last decade.
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There are 1,024 physical assaults of an anti -Semitic nature in 2024, the vast majority directed towards people (in 65.2 % of the cases of aggressions), and 546 acts undermining the property of the Jews of France, in particular of the mural.
According to data from the Interior Ministry, communicated to Parisianthis violence is not about to stop in 2025, with already 649 acts counted between January and June. A decreased number compared to the same period in 2024 (891 acts) but increasing compared to 2023 where the public prosecutor had counted only 304.
An increase in cases since the war in Gaza
According to the representative council of Jewish institutions in France (CRIF), this increase is explained by the international context. “The point of comparison is the pre-7-October. We see that it leaves a lasting imprint on the question of anti-Semitism,” said Yonathan Arfi, president of CRIF, in an article The world Posted in January.
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The number of anti -Semitic acts exploded from the attack on Hamas in Israel and the deployment of the army on the Gaza Strip in the fall of 2023. The theme of Palestine, omnipresent in political and public speeches, is a “catalyst of anti -Semitic acts”, according to CRIF.
Also according to the figures of the SPCJ, in 2024, 518 acts mentioned Palestine. A context criticized by the organization which deplores a demonization of the image of the Jews in France.
In addition, the figures presented take into account only the acts which have been the subject of a complaint. Acts of online or school violence have mostly settled outside the judicial sphere and therefore not counted.
