[LATIMES] French politicians across the political divide on Monday denounced pro-Palestinian rioters who attacked a synagogue and Jewish-owned shops in a Paris suburb.| Denouncing something is easy. Putting the weight of the state against what you denounce is a little more .. demonstrative... |
"To attack a synagogue and a kosher grocery store is quite simply anti-Semitism and racism," Valls said during an official visit to the southeast of France on Monday.
French online forums overflow with anti-Jewish hate
| It's not just a few radical Muslims, old-fashioned commies and anarchists, with a handful of neo-Nazis for flavour. This is the zeitgeist. Were I a French Jew, I'd be taking the family on a long holiday to Israel, leaving the house key with instructions for the real estate agent under the doormat. |
"As soon as you talk about Israel, it crystallizes all passions, with up to 20,000 or 30,000 comments sometimes after an article, of which we will only let five to 10 percent through," said David Corchia, head of Concileo, a firm of moderators that counts the dailies Le Figaro and Liberation as clients.
Helped by software that automatically reports suspect keywords, online moderators can filter comments in accordance with special legal requirements in La Belle France as well as client requests. Those laws ban racist, anti-Semitic or discriminatory messages among others, as well calls for violence.
The moderators have little time to decide whether to let a remark through, and generally block 25% to 40% of comments.
But on the subject of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, the rejection rate can reach 95%.
"There are three times as many comments than normal, all linked to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict," said Jeremie Mani, head of Netino, which looks after the websites of the Le Monde daily, Europe 1 radio and major French television channels.