
You can make a quick and easy one-off or monthly contribution of £5, £10, £20 or any other sum you’re comfortable with.ġ00% of your donation will help us continue celebrating our community, in all its dynamic diversity.īeing a community platform means so much more than producing a newspaper and website. It also proudly shows the rest of Britain the vibrancy and rich culture of modern Jewish life. Like a synagogue, it’s where people turn to feel part of something bigger. Jewish News holds our community together and keeps us connected. Yes, there is a blatantly racist hard core, but there are others who are not educated and struggle to see a difference between an Orthodox Jew in the street and what they see of Israel on TV with machine guns and shooting. “I believe there is a very strong feeling about Israel’s policies and that is what they’re fighting against. “I have never experienced something like that, or had a friend who was insulted that way,” he insists. Yet Kassovitz who was“raised in a world of Jewish humour” is not convinced there’s an issue. “There’s no real antisemitism in France,” he says without hesitating and I’m thrown.īack in February, Paris-based political commentator Anne-Elisabeth Moutet described France as “the most antisemitic country in the west”, and the pandemic has started a wave of anti-Jewish rhetoric in caricatures and YouTube videos attributing blame on us. Kassovitz made La Haine in part to help his father understand why “ a little Jewish guy” was hanging out in the projects with black guys, so what does he make of the antisemitism in France now? Even Jean-Marie Le Pen, then leader of the Front National, was riled and called for the ‘yobs to be jailed’ – which is a real achievement for a Jewish film director and grandson of Hungarian concentration-camp survivors.
