"France said Monday night that the number of anti-Semitic acts in the country soared last year, and decried the 'poison' of hate.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said that the total number of recorded anti-Semitic acts rose to 541 in 2018 from 311 in 2017.
He spoke in the Paris suburb of Sainte-Genevieve-du-Bois, where vandals chopped down trees planted in honor of a Jewish man tortured and killed in 2006.
The incident was the latest in a recent string of racist vandalism..."
February 12, 2019
Antisemitic acts in France soared by 74% in 2018, interior minister says
Portraits of the late Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor, drawn on mailboxes were daubed with swastikas
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February 12, 2019
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Anti-Semitic acts in France soared by 74% in 2018, interior minister says, Times of Israel
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