President Hollande says it is 'intolerable' that French Jews feel they have to hide their religion

The kippah debate provoked a social media campaign.

By Julian Robinson, published in the Daily Mail January 14, 2016

Francois Hollande has said it is 'intolerable' that French Jews feel they have to hide their religion after anti-Semitic attacks prompted a call to abandon wearing the kippah.The French President spoke out after a machete-wielding attacker wounded a Jewish teacher in Marseille before telling police he acted in the name of ISIS.

After the attack, Zvi Ammar, head of the Israelite Consistory of Marseille, asked Jews to go without their traditional skullcaps 'until better days.' But Hollande rejected the idea, saying: 'It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide'... Read more.

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