Patrick Bruel, Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg gathered for an evening against anti-Semitism in Paris

More than 700 people, including the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher, the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the actress Sandrine Kiberlain gathered on Monday evening at the Antoine theater.

The evening “Europe against anti-Semitism”, organized Monday June 3 by the magazine Rules of the Game led by Bernard-Henri Lévy, also brought together the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and the former Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.

More than 700 people, including the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher, the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the singer Patrick Bruel gathered in the hall of the Antoine theater, too small to accommodate the spectators, whose line stretched over more than a hundred meters.

Other distinguished guests: the actors Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sandrine Kiberlain, the Ukrainian ambassador to France Vadym Omelchenko, the writers Christine Angot and Julia Kristeva, as well as Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, the Chief Rabbi of France Haïm Korsia and the president by Crif Yonathan Arfi.

“Europe is going through an existential crisis, anti-Semitism is an existential threat“, affirmed at the opening Bernard-Henri Levy, estimating “that there should not be, in these last days of the campaign“for the European elections,”more essential subject“.

On the stage of the Parisian theater, speakers followed one another to express concern about the increase in anti-Semitism, with 366 acts recorded in the first quarter (a jump of 300% over one year), according to the government. “Yes, Europe is on the edge of a precipice“, affirmed Anne Hidalgo. She deplored “an anti-Semitism that is becoming commonplace“, and criticized those who, “on the left, consider that the question of anti-Semitism is no longer a subject“.

Sunday, polling day in France, “what is at stake is precisely the dignity of Europe“, said Yonathan Arfi, assuring that “Europe must not banish Israel from nations“. In a brief intervention, Patrick Bruel asked himself: “How did we get to this point?“.”This evening, I scream as a Jew and as a citizen: why this anti-Semitism?“, he added. Chief Rabbi Haïm Korsia finally called not to give in.”to fear, to despair“and assured: with this evening”you are collectively sending out a rather extraordinary message: you are not alone“.