What kind of anti-Semitism as in the difference between that virulent strain practised by the non-Muslim French and the other kind practised by the pieds-noirs which is virulent and violent.
As to waking up, as if the French (or, in a larger sense, European) were capable of waking up.
Pretty soon this waking up thing will verge on psychosis and death, when the delusions of the man falling to his death by hanging hits the end of the rope.