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'Ten hours walking in Paris as a Jew': Film by Israeli journalist shows anti-Semitic experiences

While his reception in tourist areas appear peaceful, it is in suburban areas with high Muslim populations where he claims to have received 'hateful stares, belligerent remarks, and hostile body language'

Tuesday 17 February 2015 01:46 GMT

An Israeli journalist has filmed the anti-Semitic experiences he claims to have endured during a ten-hour walk around Paris.

Entitled “Ten hours walking in Paris as a Jew”, the video sees Zvika Klein donning a kippah, or yarmulke, in front of the Eiffel Tower before wandering around the French capital.

While his reception in tourist areas appear peaceful, it is in suburban areas with high Muslim populations where he claims to have received “hateful stares, belligerent remarks, and hostile body language”.

In one filmed sequence, a group of suburban youths can be heard saying: “Arsehole. He’s gonna get f***** from the front and back.”

Walking past a school in one of Paris' neighbourhoods, a boy can be heard saying: "Vive Palestine". Others appear to spit as he walks past. The video was produced for NRG, an Israeli news website owned by Sheldon Adelson, a US-based billionaire who is a friend and supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It comes amid government concerns of an exodus by France’s Jewish citizens in wake of an increasing fears of anti-Semitism.

That trend had dismayed the French government well before last month’s attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris by gunman Amedy Coulibaly, which left four French Jews dead. That latest attack has caused many to question whether they remain safe in the country.

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Members of the French police special forces evacuate the hostages after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris

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Members of the French police special forces evacuate the hostages after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris

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A security officer directs released hostages after they stormed a kosher market to end a hostage situation

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Members of the French police special forces evacuate the hostages including a child (C) after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris

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A general view of members of the French police special forces launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris

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French police forcibly stop young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris

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French police forcibly stop at gun point young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris

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French police special forces evacuate local residents in Saint-Mande, near Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris

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People are led away from the scene as Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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People are led away from the scene as Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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Police are mobilized (L) with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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Police are mobilized with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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Members of the French police special force advance with their equipment near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris

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Police gather with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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Police officers gather on the closed ring road that circles Paris near a hostage-taking situation at a kosher market i

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Emergency services workers arrive at a hostage-taking situation at a kosher market in Paris

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Members of the French police special force RAID take position in Saint-Mande, near Porte de Vincennes

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Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes in Paris

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Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes

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Hooded police officers cross the closed ring road that circles Paris near a hostage-taking situation at a kosher market in Paris

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Police forces arrive at the scene where suspected armed man has taken hostages in kosher grocery in Paris

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A general view of the scene of a hostages taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris

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A general view of the scene of a hostages taking at a kosher supermarket (seen in rear) in eastern Paris

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Mr Netanyahu last night appeared to irk French authorities on Monday by urging Jews in France and Europe to emigrate, saying: “Israel is waiting for you with open arms.”

Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, dismissed Mr Netanyahu’s comments as electoralism ahead of a vote on March 17, adding: “The place for French Jews is France.”