The Kosher Grocery Shooting Follows a String of Anti-Semitic Attacks in France
It is unclear if the grocery store where a hostage situation unfolded earlier Friday was targeted because it is kosher, but the siege there follows a string of attacks on Jewish businesses and synagogues in France, the country with the third-largest Jewish population in the world, after the United States and Israel, as well as the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Last month, speaking at a rally against anti-Semitism in the Paris suburb of Créteil, the country’s interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said that anti-Semitic acts and threats had more than doubled in the past 10 months, and he promised to make the issue a “national cause.”
The rally was prompted by a particularly shocking crime in Créteil in which a couple was robbed and the woman raped in their apartment by armed assailants who told them they had been targeted because “you Jews, you have money.” Tensions reached a high point during last summer’s war in Gaza, when demonstrations turned violent with pro-Palestinian youths attacking Jewish businesses in a neighborhood known for its large Jewish population. Several synagogues were also firebombed. Demonstrators at some rallies chanted slogans like “death to the Jews” and “slaughter the Jews.” These incidents followed an attack in May on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, where a French former ISIS fighter killed four people.
These attacks have added to the growing unease of a community still reeling from the 2012 shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, which killed three children and a teacher, as well as the grisly torture and murder of a young Jewish man named Ilan Halimi in 2006. While these dramatic incidents have garnered the most international attention, smaller anti-Semitic crimes have become depressingly commonplace. On New Year’s Day of this year, for instance, a fire was started and a swastika drawn on the wall of a synagogue in a Paris suburb.
While not all the perpetrators of these crimes have been Muslims—police also arrested five men believed to be “far-right” activists for making threats against a synagogue last month—the vast majority of them have been, and they have contributed to the increasing public unease about the country’s growing immigrant population.
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it's NOT anti-Semitism, it has to do with the occupying power of "Israel". There is no such thing as anti-Semitism anymore...it all has to do with oppression of a People. Why would anyone hate Jews? This is clearly a paranoid supposition not worth of consideration and here, ofte instigates a locked post...
just in case...
Though sarcastic, "This is clearly a paranoid supposition not worth of consideration", it really is a shame how true that statement it. For some, this is just one more way to mock Jews, and in at least one post, blame Jews for not being more courageous. 
up to the horror of the Kosher Super Market, targeted in Eastern Paris, BtA. 
Already on High Alert and then this happened. 
My Deepest Condolences to the loved ones of the those who were killed and to the People of France.
A distressing trend. 
