"Well, Jews ARE currently being beaten up by mobs on the streets of France." Are you crazy, joking or both ? Is that what you're told on Fox TV ? There is NO "beating of jews" in my country. There are critics from the European countries towards Mr Sharon's politics : this is not antisemitism. There has been an article saying that Europe was becoming antisemitic. This article was written by 2 persons (leading world and european jewish congress) strongly supporting Mr Sharon' politics. They both have agreed to make excuses to the European Comission, and to attend a conference on antisemitism scheduled in Europe for 2004 where the results of a study on this rise of antisemitism (and, more generally all the various racisms) will be presented. There are also growing tensions between the arabo-muslim and Jew communities in France, which some extreme right activits fan out with delectation. There has been some violent actions (tags on synagogues or mosques, and even 2 rabbis physically molested by a couple of thugs. There was also a synagogue burned, but the people who did it were psychiatric cases and even the Jewish representatives acknowledged that it was not an antisemitic act). My in-law family is jewish. If there were "mobs beating Jews" I'd be among the first to know. So can't you stop this French bashing once and for all ? Or, better still, shut up when you don't know what you're talking about ?