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Attacks (since 1970)

Wave of attacks against synagogues at the beginning of the second Intifada

Oct. 2000·France

Toll
dégâts

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dozens of fires and acts of vandalism in a few weeks

The outbreak of the second Intifada, in the autumn, was followed in France by a wave of attacks against Jewish places of worship, on a scale unseen since the war.

Within a few weeks, dozens of synagogues and schools were set on fire, stoned, or vandalized, from Trappes to Villepinte, from Marseille to Créteil; incendiary devices were thrown at night, worshippers attacked as they left services. The incidents were concentrated in the suburbs of major cities.

This wave opened a new period in France: it durably installed police and military protection in front of community institutions, and brought into public debate the question of an antisemitism distinct from that of the far right.

Period :
Attacks (since 1970)
Type :
Attack
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
France
Sources

Encyclopaedia Judaica ; chroniques de presse contemporaines.

At the same place16

  1. 1007-1012Persecutions under Robert the Pious; expulsion from Mainz (1012); violence in Limoges, Roueninconnu
  2. 1181Philip Augustus cancels debts owed to the Jews in exchange for a fifth paid to the treasury, prelude to the expulsion of the following yeartoll not established
  3. 1182Expulsion from the royal domaintoll not established
  4. 1239General seizure of copies of the Talmud ordered by Gregory IXtoll not established
  5. 1269Ordinance of Saint Louistoll not established
  6. 22 juillet 1306General arrest and expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  7. 1315Louis X recalls the Jews expelled in 1306, against heavy payment and for only twelve yearstoll not established
  8. 1321Affair of the leperscentaines
  9. 1322Charles IV expels the Jews from France anew, eight years after their recalltoute la communauté
  10. 17 septembre 1394Definitive expulsion from the kingdomtoll not established
  11. 1793-1794Closure of synagogues during the Terrorinconnu
  12. 17 mars 1808Legal persecutiontoll not established

And 4 more in the catalogue.

In the same country172

  1. 576Bishop Avitus has the synagogue destroyed; Jews must choose between baptism and exile to Marseille (Gregory of Tours)>500 baptisés de force
  2. 576-591Forced conversions and expulsions ordered by bishops Théodore, Ferréol and Sulpice; Grégoire the Great protests against forced baptismsinconnu
  3. 582Chilperic I imposes baptism on the Jews of the kingdom; the merchant Priscus, who refuses, is murderedtoll not established
  4. 1007Persecution under Robert the Piousinconnu
  5. 1010Bishop Alduin orders the community to convert or leave the town; violence in the wake of rumors about the destruction of the Holy Sepulchreinconnu
  6. Mai-juin 1096Massacre by crusaders en route to the Orient22
  7. Mai 1096First massacre of the First Crusadeinconnu
  8. 1146The crusaders of the Second Crusade attack the community, which defends itself and perishes in its houseinconnu

And 164 more in the catalogue.

Event 2372 of 2483, in chronological order · Attacks (since 1970): 174 events in the catalogue

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