A French nonprofit launched a smartphone application for
reporting anti-Semitic and other racist incidents.
The application released this week by LICRA, the
France-based International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, allows
users to photograph evidence such as offensive graffiti and send a
geo-localized picture to LICRA for processing and removal by the authorities,
the news site 20minutes.fr reported.
The app also features a panic button that
connects users with the police.
“You can’t fight racism and anti-Semitism in the 21st
century as we did in the past,” LICRA President Alain Jakubowicz said.
Jonathan Hayoun, president of France’s main Jewish student
union, told JTA that he thought the app was a good idea, "because it
facilitates reporting, which in turn lends itself to treatment of the problem.”
On May 31 at Pantheon-Assas University in Paris, a swastika
was carved into a door of the office of Hayoun’s Union of Jewish Students in
France, or UEJF. A similar incident happened there in March.
Hayoun said the new app is not suited for reporting
anti-Semitism online.
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