The Association of Jewish Veterans organized a huge protest rally here last night to protest the re-appearance of anti-Semitism in French public life, The most recent incident was the shouting of ant-Jewish slogans by thousands of Paris police during a recent demonstration for higher pay outside the French National Assembly.
Last night’s meeting called on all French veterans, former fighters in the Resistance and victims of the Nazis to “unite in common vigilance and take action against the re-emergence of Nazism in all its forms. “
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