From the Liveblog of
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Netanyahu condemns attack on French synagogue memorial
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks out against an attack on a Holocaust memorial in the French city of Strasbourg.
Netanyahu condemns the “horrific, anti-Semitic” defacing of a monument marking the site of a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in 1940.
French police on Saturday launched an investigation of the incident, in which a heavy memorial stone was moved off its base in the eastern city. The incident comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France in recent months, including spray-painting of swastikas on around 80 Jewish gravestones last month.
Netanyahu calls upon “all leaders of enlightened countries to join in denouncing it in a systematic and continuous fashion. The first way to combat anti-Semitism is to denounce, to condemn it unequivocally.”
— AP
The Times of Israel Community.