French official discourse frames antisemitic attacks as one millennial narrative from the Holocaust onward

Evidence

Three weeks ago’, he pronounced to the gathered throng, ‘four men died in a kosher shop for the same motive that families were rounded up at the Vel d’Hiv in 1942, that the faithful of rue Copernic were attacked in 1980, that pedestrians on rue des Rosiers were assassinated in 1982, that the young Ilan Halimi was attacked in 2006, that the children of the Ozar HaTorah school were massacred in Toulouse in 2012.’ — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 53

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how states assert a singular, continuous victim history to mobilize national unity — and what that singular narrative erases (here, the connection to Muslim citizens).