Religious racism and xenophobia are on the rise in France and tolerance is declining, the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) said in an annual report published on Thursday.
According to the report, 2023 was marked by a very sharp 32% increase in racist acts, and a 284% explosion of anti-Jewish acts, as per Interior Ministry statistics.
Among the reasons for the trend, the report cites Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza, polarizing debate over recent asylum and immigration legislation in France, and a number of crimes involving immigrants.
The Israel-Palestinian conflict regularly triggers (anti-Semitic) acts, which peak in relation to the invasion and civilian attacks carried out by the Israeli army in Palestinian territories. But this level of warfare is unprecedented.
The commission’s president, Marie Burguburu, has blamed the government for not acting fast enough to take preventive measures against racist acts. A survey found that out of 1 million people who suffered a racist attack last year, only 4% filed a police complaint.
The report by the independent rapporteur comes as France prepares for the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sunday.
The vote was scheduled after President Emmanuel Macron was obligated and decided to dissolve the National Assembly following a defeat in the elections for the European Parliament earlier this month.
The latest polls suggest that the right-leaning National Rally party could win as much as 37% of the popular vote. The party has a Euro-skeptic, anti-immigration agenda. It won 30 seats in the European Parliament earlier this month.
France also adopted a controversial bill in late January, 2024 that implements a raft of measures aimed at taking a tougher line on immigration.
Some provisions make it harder for people to bring over family members and access welfare benefits. Backed by the National Rally, the bill sparked protests across the country.
According to the UN’s latest World Migration Report, France hosts the fourth largest refugee population in Europe, behind Germany, Russia, and Poland.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
It is not only antisemitism: France is now divided into so-called “communities” that distrust one another. It was not always like that: only 40 years ago, in my young time, we were all French, no matter what our origins and religions were.
It’s not so much an anti- religious thing… It is simply civilians sick of Zionist Mafia undermining communities. No one wants them. They are leaches, parasites that feed off the labor of others and spread corruption & diseases. Get rid of them!
Macron can hate other cultures and wants to kill Russians. Start with the guy leading by example.
If, and it is a big if, antisemitism exists in France, Jews only have themselves to blame. Since October 7, 2023, over 35,000, Palestinians have been killed by Jews, and of those 35,000, nearly 15,000 of those have been Palestinian children. What Jews have been doing in their genocide of Palestinians has inflamed hate toward them all over the world. This hate toward Jews has nothing to do with them being Jewish, it is being caused by their own selves in their attempt to exterminate Palestine and the Palestinians. I will add, this has all been accomplished with the aid,… Read more »
Zionist devils are always trying their best to be the closest to Lucifer in the bottomless pit.
Speaking up against the genocide of murdering women and kids is not antisemitism, it’s all about morals, but the Zionists/Jews call it antisemitism to shut you yup against their vile evil ways.
Most globalist Jews are NOT Semites and people who have lived in the belt of the Middle East for generations are Semites… and that includes Palestinians.
French lived off Africa and now the French not happy that Africa moved to France. Yes, racism et al has its positives … it relies on nationalism and nationalism is the very identity that the globalists want to erase. At the same time nationalists need to acknowledge their hand in creating the quagmire due to colonization..