App allows users to send geo-localized photos of anti-Semitic incidents and features a ‘panic button’ that connects users with police.
JTA
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.
#1 by Gary on 06/14/2013 - 3:32 pm
Too funny for words!
#2 by Rhonda on 06/14/2013 - 5:00 pm
Further proof that life is a cruel joke.
#3 by Luciana on 06/14/2013 - 7:20 pm
Oh Good Lord! Jesus is coming for them!
#4 by Peter on 06/14/2013 - 10:26 pm
Now here;s and app: Anti-Gentile incidents – committed by Talmudic jews. This would include white collar crimes and manipulations of gov’ts to please service israel at expense of Host Nation. It would have to be a complex app., ready for overload.
#5 by Kosmos on 06/15/2013 - 1:02 am
Its good the jews have this app cause they are going to need it real badly in the coming years.
#6 by Dante Ardenz on 06/15/2013 - 4:02 am
If you want to know who rules you,find out who you cannot criticize”. Voltaire
#7 by Iman on 06/15/2013 - 9:30 am
As Voltaire said ” you can know who rules you if you know who you can’t criticize “.
#8 by frederickrhodes on 06/16/2013 - 4:31 pm
Let’s all call and report another violent infant prepuce excision ritual sacrifice (infant circumcision) because that is the #1 cause of antisemetism and Aparteid racism world wide.