Violence against Jews increasing

The following is a chronology of anti-Semitic incidents which have taken place in Europe over the last number of months:

The following is a chronology of anti-Semitic incidents which have taken place in Europe over the last number of months:

February 15th (France): Vandals paint a star of David and write "Dirty Jew" on modern bronze statue in Paris of the French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus sent to Devil's Island after being framed for treason.

March 16th (Germany): A home-made grenade is thrown in a Jewish cemetery in central Berlin, no one is hurt.

March 30th (France): Ram-raiders smash a car into a synagogue in Lyon and set it ablaze.

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March 31st (Germany): Seven or eight men attack two 21-year- old American Jews in Berlin after they visited a synagogue.

April 3rd and 4th (France): An empty Jewish school bus is torched in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. Attackers in Montpellier throw firebombs at an office block in what appears to be an attempt to target the Jewish religious centre located nearby. No one is hurt.

April 6th (France): Arsonists throw petrol bombs into a Jewish sports club in Toulouse.

April 10th (France): About 15 hooded attackers wielding sticks, metal bars and petanque balls beat up members of the Maccabi Jewish football team in Bondy, north-east of Paris.

April 12th (France): Vandals deface a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, painting swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans on about 20 tombstones and a wall.

April 13th (Ukraine): Attackers beat up Jewish worshippers and smash windows at Kiev's main synagogue.

April 14th (Germany): A Jewish mother and her daughter are punched in the face by two attackers in a Berlin subway.

April 16th (Greece): Gravestones damaged at a Jewish cemetery in Ioannina, home to a large Jewish community until the second World War.

April 17th (Greece): Vandals throw paint at a Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki and paint the word "Palestine" on flagstones below it; (Germany): Vandals cover an outer wall of a synagogue in Herford with anti-Semitic graffiti.