2024-05-04 18:08:00
“We might have expected a lasting surge of empathy and solidarity, but it very quickly turned around,” laments Simone Rodan, director of the American Jewish Committee Europe (AJC). A survey carried out by Ifop for the AJC, in partnership with the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol), that The Parisian unveils this Saturday, May 4, in fact reveals the consequences of the October 7 attacks perpetrated by Hamas in Israel. According to this study, anti-Semitism has since been unleashed in France.
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For Simone Rodan, “we are witnessing a spread and normalization of the anti-Semitism that we have known for two decades, and which is confused with the rejection of Israel”. According to the director of AJC Europe, “each tragedy against the Jews releases anti-Semitic passions”. Simon Rodan here also refers to the killing at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012.
“Rejuvenation of anti-Semitism”
According to the survey, 76% of the entire French population now notes “the strength of anti-Semitism in France”, in the words of Dominique Reynié, political scientist. This is 12 points more than in 2022. The first cause that can explain anti-Semitism is, for 57% of French people in general, “hatred of Israel”. “This link between Israeli action and the perception of Jews has been strong since the very beginning of the 2000s, with the second intifada. The Jewish community is the only one who is asked to account for what is happening in another country,” explains the director of Fondapol.
The Ifop study also reveals that since the massacres of October 7, a quarter of Jews in France have been victims of an anti-Semitic act. For 12%, this even happened several times. 33% of Jewish respondents say they have reduced or stopped their Uber trips, 44% no longer wear the kippah in the street.
Another worrying lesson from the investigation: the “rejuvenation of anti-Semitism”. 35% of those under 25 believe it is justified to attack Jews because of their supposed support for Israel, compared to 21% of the general population. Dominique Reynié thus believes that “among younger generations, exposed to the overflow of social networks, anti-Semitism is becoming ordinary”.
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