Aliyah from Paris: Looking back on 2016

The calm has returned to Paris. Sitting in the train on my way home, the headline of a Metro News-like newspaper catches my eye. Demain Matin headlines: “Number of racist incidents substantially decreased!” I turn the page and read that the Ministry of Internal Affairs counts 1,125 racist incidents in 2016. Compared to 2015 in which there were 2,034 racist incidents, a …