Antisemitic Attacks in France Continue to Rise

French President Emmanuel Macron’s pusillanimous attempt to curry favor with France’s Muslim population, by calling for a “state of Palestine,” has not done anything to halt the antisemitic attacks currently rocking France. More on several of those attacks — there have been three such attacks in two days in mid-August — can be found here: “Star of David necklace ripped from neck, beaten for wearing a kippah, antisemitic attack in France,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2025:

A 65-year-old Jewish man was violently attacked and his Star of David necklace was ripped from his neck in Livry-Gargan, Paris.

According to the complaint filed with the French police, Dov Sitruk was walking alone down the street wearing a kippah on Saturday when a car with three people stopped next to him.
Two of them got out of the vehicle, asking him for directions, but then, out of nowhere, they began hitting him in the face, pushing him, and grabbing his collar. After this, they tore his gold Star of David necklace from his neck.

Sitruk was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and then referred to the Forensic Medicine Unit (UMJ) for further examinations and an assessment.

He reported being left after the assault with bruises to his left eye and swelling….

This was not an act of violence that accompanied the commission of a crime; the antisemitic violence was the crime, and the stealing of the gold Star of David necklace incidental to it.

On Wednesday, August 6, a Jewish couple in Lyon was threatened. They feared for their lives as they were met with verbal abuse after coming out of a restaurant in the Brotteaux district.

According to French media, two individuals shouted, “Dirty Jews,” at the couple. The suspects were later arrested by the police.

The city’s mayor, Grégory Doucet, condemned the “antisemitic attack,” which he said has “no place in Lyon.”

“I send all my support to the victims, their loved ones, and the entire Jewish community of Lyon,” said the mayor.

However, only one week later, on Wednesday, August 13, the Lyon public prosecutor’s office announced that it had closed the case into the antisemitic assault “after an investigation,” based on the “evidence available to the prosecutor’s office.”

It found that an altercation broke out between four individuals, the prosecutor said, adding that the two people taken into custody denied that the incident had any antisemitic nature.

Citing insufficient evidence, the case was then closed with no further action taken….

This was a very strange conclusion. There were four people involved in this attack: the two attackers themselves, who called out “Dirty Jews” (“Sales Juifs”), among other expletives, and the Jewish couple who were involved only as the recipients of such abuse. That was an antisemitic attack, albeit nonviolent, not a simple “altercation,” as the Lyon Prosecutor’s Office has claimed. If someone starts yelling frenziedly at you out of the blue, commenting unfavorably on your ethnicity or religion or race, that is not an “altercation.” Nothing was being fought over. The attackers were simply intent on flinging racist — that is, antisemitic — abuse at Jews. The Lyon prosecutor bases his conclusion that this was not an antisemitic attack on the simple denial by those who committed the attack. It’s their word against that of their victims, the Jewish couple who were subject to such abuse as they left a restaurant. And he concludes that there was no antisemitic intent. He won’t even investigate further. Does that make sense?

Richard Zelmati of the CRIF Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes said that “the unbridled antisemitism is worrying French Jews.” Not just Jews are worried. Non-Jewish French people know that the increase in the Muslim population means terrible trouble for them as well, for the Muslim attacks in Europe start with the Jews, but then broaden to include non-Muslims, and the Muslim war against the Jewish state is only the opening volley in a jihad against all non-Muslims, everywhere in the world. As the jihadists like to say, “after the Saturday people come the Sunday people.”