The executive director of the American Jewish Committee discussed combating European anti- Semitism during a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac. Chirac told David Harris and other members of the AJCommittee delegation that the French government had taken serious steps to protect Jews and Jewish institutions from a recent wave of violence.
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