On Wednesday, the Association of Jewish Students in France (UEJF) initiated a new legal action - linked to the October fracas involving anti-Semitic French-language tweets tied to the "#unbonjuif" ("a good Jew") hashtag - against microblogging site Twitter.

In the new court battle which Twitter faces in France over racist or offensive tweets, the UEJF is seeking _38.5 million in compensation; an amount which the association intends donating to the Shoah Memorial - a museum dedicated to Jewish history during the World War II.

Earlier, in November, the UEJF had filed a civil case against Twitter in a Paris court. The association had urged the court to force Twitter to divulge the identities of the accounts which used the mentioned hashtag, so that the users of the accounts could be prosecuted under the France's anti-hate speech laws.

Twitter lost that case in January, as the court sided with the UEJF and asked the microblogging site to disclose the details of the accounts in question --- a ruling which, according the UEJF, the company has failed to comply with.

Noting that Twitter's non-compliance with the January 24 ruling by a French court indicates that the company is "playing the indifference card," the UEJF - revealing that it is filing another case against Twitter - said: "By protecting the anonymity of the authors of these tweets, they (Twitter) make themselves accomplices and give way to racists and anti-Semitic people."