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Reporter Zvika Klein of Israeli outlet NRG posted a video that showed verbal abuse and physical threats aimed at him as he walked around the French capital wearing a yarmulke.
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltyhmrIFgo[/youtube]

Interestingly enough, the youtube comments echo a similar vain to the catcalling video: it's not "real" harassment/antisemitism.

What do you guys think?
 
Related: antisemitism on the rise in Europe:

In Britain last year, for instance, there were more than 1,100 anti-Semitic incidents recorded, double the number from 2013, according to data released Thursday by the Jewish nonprofit Community Security Trust.

But the fears of rising violence have been especially pronounced in France after a 2012 attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse that left a teacher and three students dead.

The Jewish Agency, which encourages immigration to Israel, says the number of French Jews leaving for Israel each year had been steady at about 2,000 until 2013, when it hit 3,400. Last year, it jumped to more than 7,000 — making France the leading contributor of immigrants to Israel and marking the first time that more than 1 percent of a Western nation’s Jewish population has left for Israel in a single year, according to Avi Mayer, a spokesman for the Jewish Agency.

Since the Hyper Cacher attack, calls to the Jewish Agency’s Paris office have more than tripled, Mayer said, and the agency is predicting that 15,000 French Jews will move to Israel in 2015.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...7fd644-abb9-11e4-8876-460b1144cbc1_story.html
 
I think categorizing "Viva Palestine" as harassment is stretching it a bit. That video showed pretty low levels of harassment. France has a long "cultural" history of anti-semitism, so this is not surprising.
 
laughing dog said:
I think categorizing "Viva Palestine" as harassment is stretching it a bit. That video showed pretty low levels of harassment. France has a long "cultural" history of anti-semitism, so this is not surprising.
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Even if they were "low levels" - it is the kind of routine harassment that is presumably experienced daily. Given enough days the average Jew who walks through these parts of the city is bound to experience more severe incidents.
 
Frikki said:
France has a history of racism and bigotry.
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It may be getting worse - that's certainly not a good sign for the future of Europe - social cohesion is diminishing. Muslims are likely being targeted more as well.
 
Axulus said:
laughing dog said:
I think categorizing "Viva Palestine" as harassment is stretching it a bit. That video showed pretty low levels of harassment. France has a long "cultural" history of anti-semitism, so this is not surprising.
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Even if they were "low levels" - it is the kind of routine harassment that is presumably experienced daily. Given enough days the average Jew who walks through these parts of the city is bound to experience more severe incidents.
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Maybe. The harassment in the video was consistently low level in my view. One would think that there would be more visceral or nastier harassment shown out of an alleged 10 hour tour.

I think the video's categorization that France is the most anti-semitic country in Europe is not very convincing. But it is clear that the French have a problem of antisemitism.
 
laughing dog said:
Axulus said:
Even if they were "low levels" - it is the kind of routine harassment that is presumably experienced daily. Given enough days the average Jew who walks through these parts of the city is bound to experience more severe incidents.
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Maybe. The harassment in the video was consistently low level in my view. One would think that there would be more visceral or nastier harassment shown out of an alleged 10 hour tour.

I think the video's categorization that France is the most anti-semitic country in Europe is not very convincing. But it is clear that the French have a problem of antisemitism.
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Just to summarize the incidents:

"Are you all right? Are you Jewish?" - odd comment - mildly threatening
"I'm joking - the dog will not eat you" - somewhat threatening as this appears to be a response to bringing the dog closer to him
"dude, he came here to fuck from the front and the back" - threatening verbal harassment
yells "Jew" - threatening
*spits on the ground* - an action showing disdain/hatred, is threatening
"Viva Palestine" - mild harassment - there is no indication about the guy's politics, only his religion
"homo" *spits on the ground* - slightly more threatening and hateful than the above
 
I'd be interested to see a similar video for a Muslim and then a Sikh.
 
Axulus said:
laughing dog said:
Maybe. The harassment in the video was consistently low level in my view. One would think that there would be more visceral or nastier harassment shown out of an alleged 10 hour tour.

I think the video's categorization that France is the most anti-semitic country in Europe is not very convincing. But it is clear that the French have a problem of antisemitism.
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Just to summarize the incidents:

"Are you all right? Are you Jewish?" - odd comment - mildly threatening
"I'm joking - the dog will not eat you" - somewhat threatening as this appears to be a response to bringing the dog closer to him
"dude, he came here to fuck from the front and the back" - threatening verbal harassment
yells "Jew" - threatening
*spits on the ground* - an action showing disdain/hatred, is threatening
"Viva Palestine" - mild harassment - there is no indication about the guy's politics, only his religion
"homo" *spits on the ground* - slightly more threatening and hateful than the above
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As someone who has been the recipient of similar confrontations, IMO, one has to be pretty sensitive to think most of those are "threatening". There is a big difference between unacceptable or vulgur or disquieting behavior and threatening behavior. None of the behavior is acceptable. And it is cause for concern.
 
Axulus said:
AthenaAwakened said:
BTW

The word Semitic describes the people who came from the Middle East and their languages. Arabs and Jews are both Semitic.
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Ok, but the word antisemitism has evolved to mean bigotry/hostility/prejudice towards Jews.
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Which leads me back to my original question,

And the point of this is what? That Parisians are rude?
 
You need to have a nondescript person walk around for 10 hours as a control for the experiment.
 
AthenaAwakened said:
Axulus said:
Ok, but the word antisemitism has evolved to mean bigotry/hostility/prejudice towards Jews.
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Which leads me back to my original question,

And the point of this is what? That Parisians are rude?
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Not just any kind of rude, but antisemetic/bigoted rude. It appears to be a frequent occurance, and other sources of data claim that such incidents are on the rise. That is a cause of concern for France and Europe in general. This is a big blow to multiculturalism in Europe for the problem to be worsening like this.
 
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