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| Italian police investigate physical assault of 12-year-old Jewish boy, Jew-hate incidents up in Italy and France |
| 2022-01-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] Italian authorities in Tuscany are investigating an attack on a 12-year-old Jewish boy who said teenagers kicked him, hit him on the head and hurled antisemitic abuse at him. The boy’s parents on Tuesday reported the weekend attack in a park near their home in the town of Campiglia Marittima, near Livorno, according to a statement from town officials. Florence daily The Nation reported that the assailants told the boy: "You need to be quiet because you are Jewish," and used other demeaning and insulting language. They also said "you should die in the oven," a reference to World War II Nazi death camps where Jews were murdered and their remains burned. The boy’s father told the paper that nobody intervened on his son’s behalf. The mayor of Campiglia Marittima, Alberta Ticciati, said video recordings from the park were being reviewed by Sherlocks. Antisemitic incidents have been on the increase in Italia, in particular over the last half dozen years, according to a database compiled by the Milan-based Center of Contemporary Jewish Documents’ Observatory on Anti-Jewish Prejudice. Antisemitic incidents in France increased by 75% in 2021, also up in Italy [IsraelTimes] Jewish community’s main watchdog group records 589 hate crimes against Jews, including a 36% jump in physical assaults, with many attacks carried out by neighbors Reports of antisemitic incidents in La Belle France increased by 75% in 2021, according to the French Jewish community’s main watchdog group. SPCJ recorded 589 hate crimes against Jews last year, including a 36% increase in physical assaults over 2020. The group released its annual report Wednesday. Incidents targeting people — as opposed to communal buildings and institutions — accounted for 45% of all incidents in 2021. Of those, 10% were physical assaults. A quarter of all incidents happened inside or just outside the victims’ homes, typically perpetrated by a neighbor, SPCJ wrote, adding this was a new and worrisome phenomenon. Use of weapons, mostly knives and guns, in antisemitic incidents was also unusually high in 2021, occurring in 20% of all assaults and 10% of all cases of intimidation, the report said. In nearly a third of all cases, perpetrators indicated they were motivated by issues connected to Paleostinians, the report added. It seems reasonable to assume that at least half of those were by Muslim colonists, but the reporters seem not to have asked the question. Dozens of incidents happened within the space of 11 days in May, when Israel and Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", were exchanging fire amid rioting by Israeli Arabs and attacks on Arabs by Israeli Jews. During that period, SPCJ documented on average five antisemitic incidents per day.Out of 160 incidents that SPCJ classified as " In one incidents from 2021, guards protecting a Jewish school in Marseille overpowered a man wielding a knife whom they suspected intended to stab patrons at a nearby kosher store and bakery. In another, occurring a month later, Jewish residents of a Gay Paree suburb chased and overpowered a man who witnesses said tried to stab three Jews. They handed him over to police. Related: Marseille: 2022-01-10 New Corona Variant Identified In France Marseille: 2021-12-07 ‘Far-right’ French presidential candidate Zemmour injured as brawl mars his 1st rally Marseille: 2021-12-05 Europe |
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