At times when it's best to hide your Jewish identity while in Europe, Israeli-Jewish journalist Zvika Klein marched for 10 hours in the streets of Paris, wearing tzizit and a yarmulke. “Go f*** from the front and the back,” “Viva Palestine,” “What are you doing here?” were only a few of the hateful remarks sent his way.
Klein used the new “10 hours in…” YouTube format, which started in October when a woman was filmed walking the streets of New-York, facing sexist abuse. According to his column in NRG, he decided to take on this little experiment after the January 9 attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, where four people were murdered for the sole reason of being Jewish. To this adds the increasing rise in anti-Semitism in the past few years, “>came to a new record after Israel's latest operation in Gaza.
For 10 hours Klein bravely and quietly walked down the streets and suburbs of Paris, with photographer Dov Belhassen documenting the day using a hidden camera. Among other places, he walked in the quieter quarters of the city, the tousits hot-spots, the Jewish neighborhoods, and even some Muslim neighborhoods. “Areas known as tourist attractions were relatively calm, but the further from them we walked, the more anxious I became over the hateful stares, the belligerent remarks, and the hostile body language.”