Following the good news that the number of recorded anti-Semitic incidents in the UK fell last year by 33 per cent, France has seen a 50 per cent fall.
Christophe Bigot, the unfortunately named French Ambassador to Israel, told the Jerusalem Post: “[The cause for the decrease is] the police, the work of justice, the work of high school education and the vigilance of the media. It’s not only due to the relative calm in the region. There was the flotilla incident,” Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound boat which left nine dead and dozens wounded in early 2010,” that could have provoked more attacks, but still we’ve seen a decrease.”