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This Week in Anti-Semitism

The surge of hatred is increasingly hard to ignore.
Source: Thibault Camus / AP

The week began with Alain Finkielkraut taking his mother-in-law to Sunday lunch in Paris. As he returned to his apartment on the Left Bank, he crossed through a crowd of “yellow vest” protesters. They recognized the well-televised philosopher. Despite the fact that he has professed captured young men bedecked in the canary-colored uniform of the movement spewing insults at the slovenly 69-year-old: “Dirty Jew!” “Tel Aviv! Back to Tel Aviv!” “France is ours!”

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