Tunisia’s Jewish community is making an official complaint regarding anti-Semitic slogans that were chanted at a protest held, on Sunday.
Tunisia’s Jewish community said that it is making an official complaint regarding anti-Semitic slogans that were chanted at a protest held, on Sunday, by radical Islamist Salafists.
The demonstration called for the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, as the main source of legislation in the constitution that is currently being drafted.
“The call to fight against the Jews is absurd,” said Tunisia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs in a statement issued Tuesday, according to the French news agency AFP. “The ministry rejects this attack against all Tunisian citizens. Tunisian Jews are full citizens.”
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By Rachel Hirshfeld