Les Beurs?
It was the French foreign ministry, not a muslim fringe, that stood by Mr Bernard and refused to either recall him or make him apologize and that characterized the objections to his words as "malevolent insinuations".
Nothing effective is done in France, beyond mere verbiage, to crack down on the criminal attackers of jews, jewish cemetaries and synagogs.
But the French are not alone among Europeans. In the house of Lords, a Jewish Memeber was referred to as "you people" and another Member of the House of Lords, a liberal, was hear to say ".. .the Jews have been asking for it and now, thank God, we can say what we think a last.
True, the actual violence is commited by muslim activists, but the underlying tenor in Europe is reverting to the casually accepted anti-semitism of the 1930s and it is again becoming respectable to make Jew jokes at society parties.