So, now there’s a group publishing photos of French Jews on Facebook and encouraging people to attack them:

A violent mob of more than a dozen men in France assaulted a Jew at his home in a Paris suburb after confirming that his photograph had been published by a French Facebook page identifying Jews to be targeted for physical intimidation, The Union of Jewish Students of France, the UEJF, said in a statement on Friday. The Facebook page, ‘Jeunes Révolutionnaires Français’, JRF, or ‘Young French Revolutionaries’, posted the names and photos of 32 Jews. The assault on one of those listed took place on Thursday night in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb. The assailants were armed with iron bars.

No response yet from Facebook about why this page is still up on the site despite the very clear intentions of those who created it to harrass, intimidate, and cause harm to Jews.

UPDATE: Facebook removed the page after many people complained. I’ve been told, however, that this isn’t the first time the photos have been posted, as the group has turned up before under a different name. The odds are, then, that they’ll be back on Facebook before long.