Outright anti-Semitism is a fact of life these days in the poor suburbs where much of France's Muslim minority lives

Story dated 20 January 2005

To France's credit, their government is actually starting to do something about anti-Semitism in its country. "After a slow response when this "new anti-Semitism" flared four years ago, France has made fighting prejudice against Jews into a national priority. Holocaust education in state schools now starts with pupils as young as nine years old. But even the best plans for teaching about the Nazi massacre of Jews can fall short when confronted with an Islamic identity spreading among a minority of France's five million Muslims." The only problem here is that Muslim pupils are less receptive to shedding anti-Semitic prejudices than other categories of pupils.

posted by The Sovereign Editor | 3:48 PM

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