Hollande vows to fight rising anti-Semitism in France

President Francois Hollande today vowed to combat "unbearable" rising anti-Semitism in France, after figures showed anti-Jewish acts doubled over the past year.
"France is your homeland," Hollande said at a Holocaust memorial in Paris, vowing that the government will present "a wide-ranging plan to counter racism and anti-Semitism by the end of February."
He spoke after the country's main Jewish group CRIF said that anti-Semitic acts registered in France had soared to 851 in 2014, from 423 the previous year. Acts of physical violence jumped to 241 from 105.
"These anti-Semitic acts represent 51 per cent of racist acts committed in France while Jews make up only one percent of the French population," said the group in a statement.

The numbers were released as world leaders readied to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland and less than three weeks after Islamist attacks in Paris left 17 people dead, including four Jewish men taken hostage at a kosher supermarket.
France is home to Europe's largest Jewish population, estimated to be between 500,000 and 600,000, as well as the continent's largest Muslim population, estimated at around five million.

The CRIF group said there was a "very significant and very worrying increase in the violence of anti-Semitic acts" and warned that "anti-Semitic" prejudices were rife in the country.

Hollande said "conspiracy theories" and hatred for Israel, spread via social media, were fuelling the attacks.
"The big Internet providers must take responsibility. They can no longer close their eyes or they will be considered complicit," he said.