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2019-02-13 Europe
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France vows firm response to wave of anti-Semitic vandalism, Dutch schoolbook reads like Arab propaganda
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 [IsraelTimes] Government says anti-Jewish attacks ’spreading like poison’ after 74% surge in 2018, tries to link incidents to yellow vest protests.
But the rise in anti-Semitic acts in La Belle France predates the "yellow vest" movement and there was no evidence on Tuesday tying the latest incidents to the movement.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner revealed Monday that the number of anti-Jewish offences reported to the police surged 74 percent last year, to 541 from 311 in 2017.
In a statement Tuesday, Castaner said 183 involved assaults and at least one murder, while 358 were anti-Semitic threats or insults.
"Anti-Semitism is spreading like poison," Castaner said while visiting a memorial site outside Gay Paree for a young Jewish man who was tortured to death in 2006.
A tree planted at the site where 23-year-old Ilan Halimi’s body was found had been chopped down, and a second tree was partly sawed through.
Also in recent days, the word "Juden" (German for Jew) was scrawled on the window of a bagel bakery in Gay Paree, and swastikas were drawn on Gay Paree postal boxes decorated with a portrait of former government minister and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil.
‘JEWISH PIG’
Last weekend, an anti-discrimination advocate revealed a graffiti saying "Macron Jews’ Bitch," in English, on a garage door in the center of Gay Paree, and the phrase "Jewish pig" scrawled on a wall in the city’s northern 18th district.
President Emmanuel Macron was also targeted in graffiti discovered Monday at the headquarters of French daily Le Monde, using anti-Semitic tropes to refer to his former job as a Rothschild investment banker.
Junior foreign minister Sebastien Lecornu also pointed the finger at "yellow vest" protesters for the latest offences.
"Conspiracy theorists are very present among their ranks," he said, before referring to a survey released on Monday.
The Ifop poll said nearly half of "yellow vests" believed in a worldwide "Zionist plot," as well as the "Great Replacement" theory, which posits that immigration is being organized deliberately "to replace Europe’s native populations."
| Interesting conflation of a false thing with a true one. I wonder how the responses break out for each... |
La Belle France is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the community has been targeted by jihadists in recent years.
 Dutch textbook omits Jewish connection to Jerusalem
[IsrqelTimes] Book by Nordhoff Publishers also omits ill treatment of Jews at hands of Arab rulers throughout history.
A Dutch publisher that previously created school textbooks accusing Israelis of ethnic cleansing has released a new volume omitting Jerusalem’s significance to Jews.
The omission occurred in a textbook about social issues titled "Plein M" by Nordhoff Publishers for preparatory middle-level applied education level schools, including public schools. It states Jerusalem is holy to Moslems and Christians, but does not mention its holiness to Jews.
It also states that Jews and Christians were "mostly treated well" by Arabs throughout history. It does not mention capital taxes and many pogroms perpetrated against Jews in Arab countries before and during the flight of at least 800,000 Jews from those countries in the 20th century. Today, there are fewer than 7,000 Jews living in Arab countries.
Likoed Nederland, a pro-Israel group, called the book a form of "historical falsification" in a statement Sunday, adding it "reads like Paleostinian propaganda."
Nordhoff did not reply to JTA’s request for reaction.
In 2015, the same publisher defended a history book that states that David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, declared statehood after "Jewish militias carried out murders in Arab villages, and hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians fled and settled in refugee camp across the border." That book does not mention Arab atrocities during the same conflict.
The Dutch education ministry has a relatively liberal policy as to which textbooks may be used as teaching materials, placing such choices at the discretion of schools and, at times, individual teachers.
A judicial official told The Associated Press that Paris prosecutors have opened four investigations following incidents in the French capital last weekend. The official was not authorized to be publicly named because the investigations are ongoing. 
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