There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

I have no idea what `classic anti-Semitism' is. I'm not familiar with this term. I don't know where it comes from and what connection it has to France and what is occurring here. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. An isolated incident can always happen. When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.