An apparent anti-Semitic attack on Tottenham fans in France coincides with a report showing a 58 per cent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the country in 2012.
An apparent anti-Semitic attack on Tottenham fans in Lyon, France, coincides with the publication of a report showing a 58 per cent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the country in 2012.
Three Tottenham Hotspur supporters were taken to hospital yesterday after a group of men wearing balaclavas gave Nazi salutes and smashed the windows of the Smoking Dog Pub where Tottenham fans were gathered.
While none of the travelling fans were Jewish, Tottenham Hotspur football club has long been associated with London’s Jewish community.
The fact that the attackers were seen by witnesses flinging their arms in the air in Nazi salutes lends credence to speculation that the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism.
The attack also coincides with the release of a report showing a 58 per cent rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France in 2012.
There were 614 anti-Semitic acts documented in France last year compared to 389 in 2011.
“2012 has been a year of unprecedented violence against Jews in France,” said the report released on Tuesday by the security unit of France’s Jewish communities (SPCJ).
Incidents where victims were assaulted physically or verbally on the street witnessed an increase of 82 percent, to 315 last year compared to 177 cases in 2011, SPCJ said.
This has added to worries that Europe is seeing a resurgence in anti-Semitism.
Earlier this month Italian police arrested three men suspected of being involved in an incident in Rome last November, when Tottenham fans were allegedly attacked in a pub in Rome.
Witnesses described hearing the assailants chanting “Jews” during the attack.
Last year a Europe-wide survey by the Anti-Defamation League found that:
- In Spain, where Jewish civic groups say Spaniards blame their economic woes on the country’s Jews, 72 percent of the population holds anti-Jewish views, compared with 64 percent in 2009.
- In Hungary, 63 percent of the population holds anti-Semitic views, up from 47 percent in 2009.
- In Poland, 48 percent show anti-Semitic attitudes, about the same as 2009.
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32 Responses to “Attack on Tottenham fans coincides with report showing ‘unprecedented rise’ in anti-Semitism in France”
FRANCIS GERALD ALLEN
Roderick Bateman; If I knew what a Goy Wheel was I wouldn’t try and spin it on a degenerate Hitler loving specimen like you. It’s marvelous how you people try to re-write history.Try telling the Czechs, Poles, Dutch, Belgian, French, Greeks and Soviets who experienced Hitler’s peace loving policies at first hand and lost millions of their population in the process(or is this more Jewish propganda?)
Oh, Iv’e heard of paragraphs alright, but with or without them Ithink you have managed to fathom what I have written.
Pity this has to be said on a piece about football hooliganism; but I think it is essential that this younger generation is given plenty of information/education about the evil of Hitler and Nazi Germany and their fascist allies and about the glorious victories of the Allied Powers, Particularly the massive sacrifices of the Soviet Union and the Red Army(20m.+ Soviet citizens lost teir lives)
Even Churchill stated that it was the Red Army that tore the guts out of the Nazi war machine
Mick
Whenever leftists talk about antisemitism, they only mention cases in which the far-right are involved. However, Islamic antisemitism is the jet propellor of this increase in Europe.
As undercover and research work has shown, even by Channel 4, antisemitic attitudes are par for the course with Muslims, which is hardly surprising as their own holy texts contain plenty of Muhammad’s own hatreds towards the Jews. Read ’em for yourself.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12868
http://antisemitism.org.il/article/74844/sharp-rise-antisemitism-among-european-muslims
Newsbot9
Same old copy/pasted racist nonsense. Thanks for admitting you’re outright genocidal, though – you’re a danger to the public. Also, thanks for admitting being an anti-Semite and a bigot.
Newsbot9
Ah yes, making excuses for the blood on the hands of your thugs as ever. Your typically anti-Semitic conspiracy theories show where you’re coming from – the far right.
Newsbot9
Nope, we know you’re making excuses for far right violence. Again.
You’re the self-admittedly genocidal anti-Semite here.