BOOKS IN PARIS MAIN LIBRARY DEFACED WITH ANTI-SEMITIC WRITINGS

Anti-Semitic writings found in Paris main library
Several books were recently rubberstamped with anti-Semitic inscriptions at the main public library in Paris, library director Gerard Grunberg revealed Thursday. "The worrying tide of anti-Semitism and incitation to racial hatred one is noticing in French society is also permeating within the walls of the library. Books were covered with anti-Semitic inscriptions and addresses of websites denying the reality of the Holocaust," the director of the Bibliotheque Publique d'Information (BPI) at the Pompidou Center in Paris said. "Needless to say," added Grunberg, "we lodged a complaint and we shall do our very best to identify and prosecute the culprits."

A dozen books about the Dreyfus case and legal issues were vandalized. They were rubberstamped on their edge with the words "Against the Jewish Mafia and Jewish Racism" followed by the addresses of a Holocaust denying website and of an Islamic propaganda website. The BPI library is due to start in a few days a program of meetings, exhibitions and films about the notion of "scapegoat". The program is part of a broader project aimed at combating racism and anti-Semitism.