'Clearly worrying': Oct 7th Hamas attack on Israel sparks rise in anti-Semitic acts in France Anti-Semitic acts in France nearly quadrupled in 2023 compared with the previous year, a Jewish organisation said Wednesday, reflecting a surge in discrimination since the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. Citing figures from the French interior ministry and a French-Jewish security watchdog, the Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) said there were 1,676 anti-Semitic acts last year compared to 436 the year prior. Nearly 60 percent of those acts were attacks involving physical violence, threatening words or menacing gestures, CRIF said in its report. Worryingly, nearly 13 percent of anti-Semitic acts last year took place in schools, most of them in junior high schools. FRANCE 24's Shona Bhattacharyya is joined by Jérémie Haddad, CRIF Executive Board Member.