Rally against anti-Semitism planned in Paris

Following a wave of attacks on Jewish targets in recent days, SOS Racisme, a group set up in the 1980s to combat the rise of the far-right National Front, said it is calling “on all citizens to march on Sunday in order to show that French society unequivocally says ‘no’ to anti-Semitism.”

In a statement issued Monday, the organization said that “anti-Semitism was not a Jewish affair but a scourge which every sincere anti-racist has to fight.” French Jewish groups say that since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada, they generally have had to tackle anti-Semitism without the support of mass demonstrations supported by groups outside the organized Jewish community.