The Minister in charge of Equality and the fight against discrimination expressed her desire on Sunday March 24 to organize these meetings, in the face of the “explosion” of anti-Semitic acts highlighted by a recent Crif report.
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The Minister in charge of Equality and the fight against discrimination, Aurore Bergé, announced on Sunday March 31 that “conferences to combat anti-Semitism” will take place on May 6. Are invited to participate in this initiative “all the political parties which have a group in the National Assembly and the Senate, that’s around ten political parties”, said the minister, guest of the program “Le grand rendez-vous” CNews/Europe 1/The echoes.
“I hope that each political party, obviously, will come because it will be in the presence of all the associations which fight against hatred” she added, recalling the“explosion of anti-Semitic acts in our country since October 7”dated “worst pogrom of our century”.
An “explosion” of anti-Semitic acts
Aurore Bergé said she wanted to organize her meeting on March 24, a few days after the publication in The worlda platform signed by 70 political, cultural and associative figures, including former Prime Ministers Elisabeth Borne, Bernard Cazeneuve and Manuel Valls, calling on European candidates to get involved “without detour and without complacency” against anti-Semitism.
According to a report from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, the number of anti-Semitic acts recorded in France almost quadrupled last year, to 1,676 compared to 436 in 2022. Crif deplores a “blast” after October 7, the date of Hamas attacks against Israel, marking the start two days later of the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip.
