(European Jewish Press) French Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls declared Monday that hatred of Jews “comes [essentially] from the Arab-Muslim world, in France and elsewhere.”
He made [the] statement in an interview on CNEWS-Europe 1 as he reacted to anti-Jewish slogans chanted at demonstrations against racism over the weekend.
“What has changed over the last twenty-five years is that this hatred of Jews comes essentially from the Arab-Muslim world, in France as elsewhere. Islamism makes hatred of the Jews its matrix and its main objective,” said the former prime minister.
These words echo those of French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, for whom anti-Semitism now has a “double face” in France, “Islamism and the far left,” while, according to him, far-right anti-Semitism has become “residual.”
