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French Interior Ministry data showed incidents targeting Jews formed the majority of roughly 2,500 acts against religious groups recorded last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Most of the documented hate crimes targeting a religious group in France last year were against Jews, who make up 0.6% of the population, the French Interior Ministry\u00a0said\u00a0on Friday. On Friday, Macron acknowledged that antisemitism had become more pronounced in recent years. Story by Canaan Lindoor\/jns.org French Interior Ministry data showed incidents targeting Jews formed the majority of roughly 2,500 acts against religious groups recorded last year. Most of the documented hate crimes targeting a religious group in France last year were against Jews, who make up 0.6% of the population, the French Interior Ministry\u00a0said\u00a0on Friday. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[349,663,664],"coauthors":[381],"class_list":{"0":"post-10082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-2","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-hate"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Eifiel.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The ministry\u2019s report of anti-religious hate crimes for 2025 counted 1,320 antisemitic cases out of 2,489 offences targeting all religious minorities. The report was published on the 20th anniversary of the murder of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew who in 2006 was abducted, tortured and murdered by a gang of criminals, many of them of foreign descent, who targeted Halimi because he was Jewish.
French President Emmanuel Macron\u00a0planted\u00a0an oak tree in the garden of the Elys\u00e9e Palace in memory of Halimi on Friday at a commemoration ceremony. Several trees planted in Halimi\u2019s memory have been vandalized in recent years.
Accompanied by Anne-Laure Abitbol, Ilan Halimi\u2019s sister, the president said in a speech that, \u201cWhen a Jew is in danger in the homeland, it is the homeland itself that is in danger.\u201d He added: \u201cWe cannot airbrush French Jews out of the republic\u2019s family photo.\u201d
Last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Macron of \u201cfueling antisemitism\u201d by turning against Israel, which has been the subject of an arms embargo and condemnations by France for Israel\u2019s war against Hamas. Macron has rejected the allegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn 20 years, and despite the resolute efforts of our police officers, gendarmes, judges, teachers and elected officials, the antisemitic hydra has kept advancing,\u201d he said.
The overall number of anti-religious hate crimes has remained roughly the same as in 2024, the interior ministry\u2019s document said, but antisemitic incidents decreased by 16% from 2024.
Anti-Christian incidents rose by 9% to 843 incidents and anti-Muslim cases also rose by 88% to 336 cases.
The number of antisemitic incidents documented in 2025 is the third highest since 2000, smaller only than the tallies of 2024 and 2023 (1,570 cases and 1,676 cases, respectively). Antisemitic incidents spiked dramatically after Oct. 7, 2023. In 2022, the interior ministry documented 436 antisemitic incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"