Special Report Will France Clean Up Anti-Semitism? Posted Aug. 5, 2002 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Media Credit: Jean Paul Pellissier/Reuters A Jewish community surveys the charred remains of its synagogue after an arsonist’s attack. In a moving speech commemorating the 60th anniversary of the infamous roundup of French Jews in 1942, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin spoke hard truths to his fellow countrymen. For two generations, the French have cloaked themselves in the memory of a resistance movement against the Nazi occupation that was neither widespread nor terribly glorious. Now, said Raffarin, it was time for the French to own...