Antisemitic Acts in France Surge by 1000% in 2023

Acts against people, not property, make up the majority, with a worrying trend of incidents occurring in schools.

Antisemitic acts in France have surged by 1000% in 2023 compared to 2022, with a total of 1,676 acts recorded by the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ) and the French Interior Ministry.
The majority of these acts (60%) are against people and not property, consisting mostly of threatening words and gestures (40%).
Antisemitic acts surged immediately after the broadcasting of the October 7 Massacre, with the number of attacks in the three months following being more than the cumulative total for the past three years.
Nearly 13% of the anti-Semitic acts took place in schools, most of them in middle schools, indicating a worrying trend of younger perpetrators.
Of the antisemitic acts committed since October 7, nearly one-third mentioned 'Palestine', with one-quarter of those praising Hamas, one-tenth advocating Nazism, another third advocating jihadism and one-quarter followed by calls for murder.