French lawmakers shield as antisemitism rises

The French police are protecting the houses of important members of Parliament because they are worried about violence targeted at Jewish people caused by Israel’s conflict with Hamas.

Police are taking care of National Assembly President Yaël Braun-Pivet and MP Meyer Habib to keep them safe.

The interior minister of France said that 100 acts of antisemitism have been documented since Saturday.

In another decision, Germany’s leader announced that they will not tolerate antisemitism.

He informed the parliament that a group supporting Palestinians, who had praised the killings of Israeli civilians, would no longer be allowed.

French President Emmanuel Macron was scheduled to meet with political leaders and speak on TV in order to prevent the conflict from getting worse.

In France, there are around 500,000 Jewish people, which is the largest Jewish community in Europe.

The Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, said on France Inter radio that they have recorded more than 100 acts of antisemitism since the hostilities started.

This text describes graffiti that includes symbols like swastikas, hateful messages against Jews, and calls for violent actions against Israel. However, there have been cases where people were caught trying to bring knives into schools and synagogues.

It has been found out that the Assembly President, Yaël Braun-Pivet, has been threatened with death.

A person from President Emmanuel Macron’s party, called Renaissance, made sure that the parliament building was illuminated in the colors of the Israeli flag. This was in response to an attack by Hamas on Israel. They also requested a moment of silence before a meeting of the Assembly on Tuesday.

Ms Braun-Pivet also said that Maryam Abu Daqqa, who is part of a group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), will not be allowed to go to a movie showing at the parliament next month. The EU considers the militant organization as a group of terrorists.

Meyer Habib is also being kept safe. He represents a group of French citizens living abroad, which includes Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and speaks out in favor of Israel. After the attack by Hamas, he said “we are seeing the recurrence of violent attacks against a specific group of people”.

French politics has been deeply divided and affected by the Hamas attack and what happened afterwards.

Many parties have criticized the “terrorist attack” on Saturday and shown support for Israel’s right to retaliate. However, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party had a less clear response.

The party called the Hamas attack a “violent attack by Palestinian forces. ” This upset other parties, including allies on the left like the Socialist and Communist parties.

In Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said to MPs in the Bundestag that protecting Israel’s safety is a priority for the German government.

He said that Samidoun, a group supporting Palestine, which was seen giving out candies in Berlin’s Neukölln area to celebrate the Hamas attack, will be forbidden. “He said we do not accept or allow hate towards Jewish people. ”

German authorities have reported that in various towns throughout the country, like Mainz, Braunschweig, and Heilbronn, Israeli flags that were put up to show support for Israel were pulled down and damaged, sometimes within a short span of time.

Braunschweig’s mayor, Thorsten Kornblum, said that the act shows disrespect and makes fun of the victims of Hamas’s attack.

MrScholz said that if Iran didn’t help, Hamas wouldn’t have been able to do these big attacks.