(AFP/Expatica - Netherlands) At a charity concert Saturday in Macon, France, as Jennifer Djaoui, 25 - known by her stage name Shirel - sang a song entitled "Jerusalem," "around 30 young people of North African origin sitting in the front rows started to insult Shirel with cries of 'dirty Jew, death to Jews, we'll kill you'," said the head of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, Roger Cukierman. The singer "was very shocked" by the insults and was comforted by Bernadette Chirac, the wife of the French president, who was in the audience.
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