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		</div><p>In Paris and dozens of other French cities, citizens and officials across the political spectrum are gearing up to march against anti-Semitism, following a series of anti-Semitic acts that shocked the nation.</p>
<p>Just hours ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s gatherings, French President Emmanuel Macron headed to a Jewish cemetery in a small Alsace town that was vandalised overnight.</p>
<p>Interior minister Christophe Castaner tweeted his &#8220;outrage and disgust&#8221; after 80 Jewish graves were vandalised in Quatzenheim.</p>
<p>Marie-Helene Schott, secretary at the town&#8217;s city hall, said swastikas were tagged on several graves.</p>
<p>Later, former French presidents Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy are set to join thousands of protesters and government officials on the Paris streets.</p>
<p>The upsurge in anti-Semitism in France, home to the world&#8217;s largest Jewish population outside Israel and the US, surged last weekend when a torrent of hate speech was directed at prominent philosopher Alain Finkielkraut during a march of yellow vest anti-government protesters.</p>
<p>The incident came days after the French government reported a big rise in anti-Semitism last year: 541 registered incidents, up 74% from 311 in 2017.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was to lead government officials at the main rally at Paris&#8217;s famed Republic Square.</p>
<p>In addition to the marches, National Assembly president Richard Ferrand and the head of Senate Gerard Larcher will hold a moment of silence at the Shoah memorial in Paris.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every time a French person, because he or she is Jewish, is insulted, threatened &#8211; or worse, injured or killed &#8211; the whole Republic&#8221; is attacked, Mr Macron said at a press conference in Paris after meeting with Georgia&#8217;s President Salome Zurabishvili.</p>
<p>Mr Macron is not expected to attend the gathering at the Republic Square, but will deliver a speech at Wednesday&#8217;s annual dinner by leading Jewish group CRIF.</p>
<p>&#8220;Anti-Semitism is deeply rooted in French society. We would like to think otherwise, but it is a fact,&#8221; Mr Philippe told L&#8217;Express magazine.</p>
<blockquote><p>We must be totally determined, I would say almost enraged, in our will to fight, with a clear awareness that this fight is an old one and will last a long time.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other recent incidents, swastika graffiti was found on street portraits of Simone Veil &#8211; a survivor of Nazi death camps and a European Parliament president who died in 2017.</p>
<p>The word &#8220;Juden&#8221; was painted on the window of a bagel restaurant in Paris, and two trees planted at a memorial honouring a young Jewish man tortured to death in 2006 were vandalised, one cut down.</p>
<p>Two youths were arrested on Friday after they allegedly fired shots at a synagogue with an air rifle in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, where a large Jewish community lives.</p>
<p>Sarcelles mayor Patrick Haddad told BFMTV that prosecutors believe the motive was anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Political parties from across the spectrum will unite in Paris but Marine Le Pen&#8217;s far-right party will hold a separate event.</p>
<p>According to sociologist Danny Trom, author of the book France Without Jews, thousands of Jewish people leave France every year because of the rise of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a low-intensity war, perhaps, but let&#8217;s not forget the</p>
<p>murder of children killed at close range by Mohamed Merah in a school,&#8221; Mr Trom told French magazine Telerama, referring to the murder in 2012 of three children and a teacher from a Jewish school by an Islamic extremist in the south-western city of Toulouse.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is without equivalent in the history of France,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jews have been present in France since the dawn of time. Now, the pressure is such that they are led to consider their country inhospitable.&#8221;</p>
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