The number of anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic incidents in France has soared recently as French authorities draw attention to the diminishing space of tolerance in French society. French President Francois Hollande condemned the latest violent acts against both Muslims and Jews, noting that the increasing violence towards religious groups "threatens the country's very foundations." The continuing Jewish cemetery vandalism and hatred toward the Muslim community demonstrates that France suffers from growing intolerance. The vandalism has contributed to an increasing sense of insecurity among French Jews and Muslims, as they feel threatened by possible attacks.Anti-Semitic acts reportedly doubled in 2014 compared with 2013. Violent acts against Muslims in January after the Charlie Hebdo attacks on January 7 totaled the same for the entire previous year. During the same period, over 100 anti-Muslim incidents were reported to the police, as the National Observatory against Islamophobia indicated, and 28 attacks on places of worship and 88 threats were made in January 2014. The growing hatred of Muslims and Jews in the country serves the rise of far-right parties and organizations that promotes far-right populism and xenophobia. France witnessed a new act of vandalism on Jewish cemeteries in Tray-sur-Mer in the northern town of Calvados on Tuesday. "Anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim acts threaten France," said Hollande, speaking on Tuesday during his visit to Sarre-Union in the Alsace region where some 250 Jewish graves in a cemetery were desecrated over the weekend. Five local teenagers between the ages of 15 and 17 were arrested after one turned himself in, claiming that they had no intention of anti-Semitism; however, the growing outrage across the country towards the Jewish community allegedly compelled them to do so.Hollande also called on France's Jews to stay in France and reject Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's repeated call for massive Jewish immigration to Israel. Netanyahu had made a similar declaration after the violent attack on a kosher market on January 9 in Paris in which four French Jews were killed. "To the Jews of Europe and to the Jews of the world, I say that Israel is waiting for you with open arms," Netanyahu said. And as with his previous statements, the call triggered an irritated response from French Prime Minister Manuel Valls who noted Netanyahu was "in the middle of an election campaign" ahead of a vote on March 17. "The place for French Jews is France," stressed Valls. Amid growing security concerns for Jews in Europe, Jewish scholars and European leaders on Monday dismissed Netanyahu's call for massive Jewish immigration to Israel. Moreover, Hollande said on Monday that Jews have "their place in Europe and especially France." Yet, meanwhile, the Israeli government approved a $46 million immigration plan for the absorption of Jewish immigrants from France, Belgium and Ukraine. France is home to Europe's largest Jewish population, estimated between 500,000 and 600,000 people. There are at least 3.5 million Muslims in the country as well, representing approximately 6 percent of the total population of 58.5 million. Considering the violent acts towards Jews in France, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described the damage to the Sarre-Union cemetery as "a despicable act." Last month, the country's main Jewish group said the number of anti-Semitic acts doubled in France during 2014, with acts involving physical violence leading the increasing numbers. Some 851 anti-Semitic acts were registered in 2014, compared with 423 the previous year, with acts of physical violence jumping to 241 from 105, the CRIF said. Last week's vandalism is not the first time a Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union has been targeted; around 60 Jewish steles were knocked over in 1988, and 54 tombs were wrecked in 2001.