PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron has given a speech inaugurating the European Judaism Center in Paris.
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The 5,000-square-meter (53,820-square-foot) space that was opened Tuesday is a place of exchange and boasts a synagogue with 600 seats and an exhibition center.
Macron said “this center is an act of faith in the future.”
It comes as part of a broader fight against rising anti-Semitism in France, the country with the largest Jewish population in Western Europe and one with a painful story for Jews during the Holocaust.
The center took over a decade to realize and was also given impetus because of extremist attacks in France, such as the killings at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012 and a hostage-taking at a Jewish supermarket in Paris in 2015.
A quick google search shows that this article originates with the Associated Press and appears in the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC and other sources. Hostage-taking? Is that all that occurred at the kosher supermarket? There were four killed in that terrorist attack! These media sources are well-known for minimizing Jewish casualties and suffering.
VIN should please review pieces before reposting and reinforcing distortions of history.