Dispatches: After Charlie Hebdo, Tackling Intolerance Against Jews and Muslims
by Izza Leghtas
Last Sunday people filled the streets of Paris and other French cities
and towns in an overwhelming expression of solidarity with the victims
of the brutal attacks last week that left 17 people dead. People of all
ages and all backgrounds walked together, holding up signs with the
words “I am Charlie,” “I am Jewish,” and “I am Ahmed,” the name of a
policeman killed following the attack on Charlie Hebdo. But in contrast
with this feeling of unity and solidarity, a wave of Islamophobic
attacks has seized France.
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