On Sunday, 20 July 2014, a pro-Palestinian protest against the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza degenerated into an antisemitic riot in Sarcelles, France.

Members of La Ligue de défense juive (LDJ, Jewish Defense League) were present in Sarcelles, and attempted to defend a synagogue by forming a line in front of it and holding motor-cycle helmets as weapons.

This social composition of the pro-Palestinian is both put forward by radical-left and post-colonial groups[4] and by right-wing medias,[5] and most of the events occurred in low-income and high-immigration neighbourhoods.

Some incorrect news was broadcast and corrected afterwards,[18] while we have oral reports of antisemitic sentences which are hard to check (such as the rumour of a "Mort aux Juifs !

[19] In parallel, the pro-Israel counter-demonstration in Sarcelles was forbidden as well, since groups such as Jewish Defense League have already participated in several violent confrontations with pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the previous days.

[21] Since the beginning of the 21st century, antisemitism in France has found new sources of recruitment from certain leftist groups and in the identification of a significant proportion of the Muslim immigrant population with the Palestinian cause on the one hand and with radical Islamism on the other.