France is trying to fight anti-Semitism by showing movies. But from the looks of things, they would do better to call on Muslims to reject, definitively and decisively, the anti-Semitism enshrined in the Qur’an (Sura 2:62-65, 5:59-60, 7:166, etc.). From The Telegraph, with thanks to jonascot:
The French government has told schools and colleges to screen films such as Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice and The Pianist to combat growing anti-Semitism.
After a 10-fold rise in attacks and threats against Jews in France in the past decade, Luc Ferry, the education minister, said it was vital to fight racism among young people….
France has the largest Muslim population – estimated at between 4 million and5 million – in Western Europe.
Mr Ferry said teachers had reported being abused by young Muslims while trying to teach about the Holocaust. He described how one teacher asked a class of 13-year-old pupils about their likes and dislikes. One child wrote: “I like football, I don’t like Jews.”
One prominent rabbi has advised Jewish schoolchildren in Paris who received abuse and threats from Muslim youths to wear baseball hats to cover their skullcaps.
Mr Ferry said that young people used racist insults such as “dirty Jew” or “dirty wog” as frequently as other people said “idiot” or “fool”….
Mr Ferry blamed tensions between Muslim and Jewish pupils. “If we have such a rise in anti-Semitism in France it is because some children identify with the Palestinian cause and others with Israel,” he said.
It might help if Mr. Ferry had a clearer idea of what Islam actually teaches about Jews; it doesn’t just have to do with the Palestinians and Israel. It has to do with Muslim revulsion toward a people who are considered unclean and under Allah’s curse (cf. Qur’an 9:30).