Israel offers safe harbour as religious hate crimes rise

When radical Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly, in coordination with the Charlie Hebdo terrorists, killed four Jews in a kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9, the attack was on trend with the doubling of anti-Semitic crimes recorded in the first half of last year.

On several occasions over the past decade, the violence against Jews was horrific. In 2006, a gang tortured and murdered Ilan Halimi, a young Jewish man, outside Paris. In ...