{"id":360033,"date":"2025-08-20T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360033\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:03:19","slug":"free-palestine-spraypainted-on-cars-of-jewish-families-vacationing-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360033\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Free Palestine’ spraypainted on cars of Jewish families vacationing in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orthodox Jewish families from across Europe, vacationing in the village of Ch\u00e2tel in the Auvergne\u2013Rh\u00f4ne\u2013Alpes region of France, near the Swiss border, discovered that vandals had spray-painted the slogan \u201cFree Palestine\u201d on nine of their cars.<\/p>\n

Currently, dozens of Haredi families are staying in the area, taking advantage of the summer holiday to vacation in the Alps. One person at the site told Ynet that nine vehicles were vandalized and that a complaint was filed with the local police. A Haredi man from Vienna, whose car was defaced, added: \u201cIt\u2019s a horrifying feeling, and the police are not taking the case seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vandalism occurred against the backdrop of heightened tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron, which hit a new low this week. The friction was sparked by a letter Netanyahu sent to Macron that caused a diplomatic uproar in Paris.<\/p>\n

In the letter, published in the French media, Netanyahu harshly criticized Macron\u2019s decision to recognize a Palestinian state,<\/a> accusing him of pouring fuel on the flames of antisemitism in France. He further angered the French by claiming there was a direct link between the rise in antisemitic incidents in the country and Macron\u2019s stance toward Israel and his declaration on recognizing a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

Macron\u2019s office rejected Netanyahu\u2019s accusations, calling them \u201cfalse and despicable,\u201d and clarified that they \u201cwill not go unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orthodox Jewish families from across Europe, vacationing in the village of Ch\u00e2tel in the Auvergne\u2013Rh\u00f4ne\u2013Alpes region of France,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-360033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115062414701581758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}