Several attacks on Jews over the Sukkot holiday across France have exemplified a whopping 45 percent reported increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the country in the first eight months of 2012.
Among the attacks was one against a Jewish family in their sukkah by unidentified assailants. The ten-member family, including small children and an eight month-old baby – were eating in their sukkah when a group of men began shouting obscenities at them from the street in Arabic and then hurling rocks at them. Among the slurs was “Dirty Jews, go home” and “we’ll get you!”
One woman was injured in her back, but no other injuries were reported. The attackers fled the scene before police arrived.
Among the incidents were 101 considered “violent”, including the heinous murder of four people – a father, his two children, and the daughter of the nearby Jewish school principal – in Toulouse on March 19.