SYND 13 10 80 FUNERALS OF SYNAGOGUE BOMB VICTIMS

(13 Oct 1980) Funerals of Synagogue bomb victims. France's provincial government administrators (prefects) called joint meetings with civic groups and Jewish leaders to discuss measures against resurgent anti - semitism. However, the country's largest labour union boycotted the meetings as a "political manouevre". In spite of repeated calls by President Giscard D'estaing for national unity and solidarity in the face of growing racist attacks, the left is clinging to its accusations that the synagogue bombing and other anti - Jewish acts of violence would not have occurred if the authorities had cracked down on the right. This item shows the funerals in Israel and Paris and protests outside the French embassy, in Israel Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...