Posts Tagged: Antisemitism France
French Public Radio Station Ripped for ‘Fake News’ Report Claiming IDF Destroyed Palestinian COVID‐19 Treatment Facilities
The government body that regulates electronic media in France has warned one of the country's largest public radio stations that it must feature a balance...
Sarah Halimi’s Killer Should Face Trial, Says Son of Murdered French Jewish Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll
The son of Mireille Knoll -- the French Jewish Holocaust survivor brutally murdered in an allegedly antisemitic attack in her Paris home in March 2018...
Amid Fury Over Sarah Halimi Murder Trial Decision, French Jewish Leader Questions Judicial Willingness to Confront Islamist Antisemitism
The head of the French Jewish community on Monday expressed fear that last week's decision by prosecutors in Paris to excuse the murderer of a...
French National Assembly Set to Debate Antisemitism Resolution Amid Row Over Inclusion of Anti-Zionism
The French parliament confirmed on Wednesday that it would discuss a resolution on the "resurgence" of antisemitism in the country that has so far been...
Torrent of Antisemitic Abuse Unleashed Online After Exam Cheating Scandal Exposed at French Jewish School
A Jewish school in France implicated in an exam cheating scandal has become the target of what one prominent Jewish advocacy group described as an...
J’accuse — France’s Antisemitism Problem
“Happy like a Jew in France.” This slogan was once the refrain of many persecuted Jewish communities in Europe, who saw the French nation as a...
The Yellow Vests and French Jews
The month of November is significant for the modern history of French Jews. On November 11, 1942, 745 Jews were packed into trains near Paris, and...
French Jewish Students Take Fight to Antisemitic ‘Comedian’ Dieudonné With Vocal Protest Outside Paris Show
A group of French Jewish students vocally chastised fans of the antisemitic "comedian" Dieudonné M'bala M'bala as they arrived at one of his shows at...
Son of Murdered French Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll Expresses Fear Over Jewish Future in Europe
The son of Mireille Knoll -- the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in a horrific stabbing attack at her Paris apartment on March 23 -- has spoken...
Shot Gun-Wielding Man Threatens Staff of Holocaust Memorial in Northwestern France
A young man described as a "nationalist" threatened the employees of the Memorial of the Deported in the French region of Mayenne on Tuesday. The memorial is...
Jewish Human Rights Group Calls on New French Justice Minister to Treat Sarah Halimi Murder as ‘Hate Crime Terrorism’
A prominent Jewish human rights group has appealed to the newly-appointed French justice minister to treat the murder of the Paris Jewish pensioner Sarah Halimi...
Relatives of Sarah Halimi, French Jewish Pensioner Murdered by Islamist, Lodge Negligence Complaint With Paris Prosecutor
Relatives of the brutally murdered Parisian Jewish pensioner Sarah Halimi have lodged a formal complaint with the Paris Public Prosecutor's office over the manner in which...
Leading French Intellectual Michel Onfray Joins Demands to Recognize Murder of Sarah Halimi as Antisemitic Hate Crime
One of France's most prominent public intellectuals has denounced the April 4 murder of Sarah Halimi – an orthodox Jewish pensioner who lived in the Paris...
French Jewish Anger Grows Over Savage Antisemitic Murder of Pensioner at Hands of Muslim in Paris Suburb
As further details emerge of the brutal murder of an Orthodox Jewish woman in a Paris suburb at the hands of a Muslim assailant last month,...
