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The President of the National Assembly called for a “collective start” against anti-Semitism in the country. Yaël Braun-Pivet indicated that she herself had filed 23 complaints since her accession to the perch.

The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, called on Sunday for a “collective start” against anti-Semitism in the country, indicating that she herself had filed 23 complaints since her accession to the perch.

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Guest of the program “Political Questions” on France Inter, Yaël Braun-Pivet reacted to a recent Crif report, identifying four times more anti-Semitic acts in 2023 compared to the previous year and an “explosion” after the 7 October, date of Hamas attacks against Israel. “Myself, for a year and a half, (...) I have counted again, I have filed a complaint 23 times for anti-Semitic threats or letters that I may have received,” he said. she indicated.

“This is something that must mobilize us all”

She described threats that “reflect on my Judaism that I have never hidden.” “They send me yellow stars, we regret that my family was not completely exterminated in the camps,” she explained, describing these acts as “terrible”.

“It’s something that must mobilize us all,” she said, deploring “a liberation of speech, whether on social networks” but also “in real life” with “people who assume anti-Semitic opinions in front of cameras, writing them without even hiding their identity.

“I call for a collective start because the foundations of our Republic and what we are, as a French people, are at stake,” said the President of the Assembly, a descendant of Polish and Jewish immigration. German, with grandparents who arrived in France in the 1930s.