Even if this statistic goes in the right direction, it needs to be put into perspective.

Anti-Semitic acts numbered 436 in 2022, compared to 589 the previous year, according to a count made public on Wednesday by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, a drop of 26%.

The Crif reports on the annual report published Wednesday by the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ, a private organization whose vocation is the protection of Jewish life) and produced “with the Ministry of the Interior”.

However, Place Beauvau does not confirm these statistics.

The figures of the ministry must indeed be published later.

"We remain on a high plateau", deplores the president of Crif

“In 2022, the Ministry of the Interior and the SPCJ identified 436 anti-Semitic acts” having been the subject of a complaint or a report to the police, writes the Crif.

“53%” of these acts “harm people” and “10% are violent physical attacks”.

In addition, “61% of anti-religious acts that harm people are directed against Jews.”

"Obviously, a drop is good news, but it is to be put into perspective", comments the president of Crif, Yonathan Arfi, in particular because it is "only the figures recorded in the police station", or because "the the most serious acts remain at a high level”.

Furthermore, it “does not reflect (…) the reality of anti-Semitism on the Internet”.

"We remain on a high plateau, of the same order as the past 20 years," adds Yonathan Arfi, for whom anti-Semitism continues "to take on different faces and in particular those of Islamism, conspiracy and hatred of Israel. ".

Many cases closed without follow-up

According to Crif, the SPCF also conducted “a study (…) on the criminal response to anti-Semitic physical attacks committed from 2015 to 2019”.

It shows that "63% of cases of anti-Semitic attacks were closed without further action" and that "in only 24% of cases the attackers were convicted".

In September, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin welcomed a “25%” drop in the number of anti-Semitic acts recorded in France in the first half of 2022 compared to the first six months of the previous year.

In 2021, according to figures from his ministry, there had been a total of “1,659 anti-religious acts” in France, i.e. 857 anti-Christian acts, 589 anti-Semitic acts and 213 anti-Muslim acts.

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