French counterterrorism spending dwarfed anti-racism budgets by over four times

Evidence

However, there is an enemy that the French government, with its partners, deems to be more perilous and significant than antisemitism: the Muslim enemy. In his speech on 13 January for the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Valls said: ‘France is at war with terrorism, jihadism and radical Islamism.’ Certainly, he added that ‘France is not at war with a religion, France is not at war with Islam and Muslims’. Yet the fact remains that Muslims are the enemy, even if not Muslims are the target. Antisemitism pales in significance in the face of this foe: on 21 January, Valls announced 425 million euros of additional spending for ‘la lutte contre le terrorisme’ over three years, more than four times the budget for ‘la lutte contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme’, and a total expenditure of 940 million. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 61 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France spent four times more on anti-terrorism than on anti-racism. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 61; Fixing on antisemitism as the sole admissible racism blinds France to other institutional bias — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 960; The Gestapo’s foreign budget dwarfed the regular military intelligence budget

Broader Connections

• France spent four times more on anti-terrorism than on anti-racism. #corroborates (0.99) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 61