Posts Tagged: France anti-Semitism
French Show Features Jews as Marijuana Sellers for Laughs
The plot is absurd. The dialogue contains lines that a real human would never say. And some of the plot turns are beyond predictable. Even...
Macron’s Unsettling Words: ‘Until Our Dead Can Sleep in Peace’
JNS.org - One of the criticisms leveled at the numerous Holocaust memorials dotted around Europe is their alleged tendency to, as an American Jewish leader...
Antisemitism Is a Stain on the French Republic
JNS.org -On Sunday, France celebrated its national day, Bastille Day, which marks the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, seen as a symbol of...
For Bastille Day, Examining French Comedian Dieudonné’s Nonstop Crusade Against Israel and America
French comedian Dieudonné is an avowed antisemite and anti-Zionist. Yet until recently, many in France across the political spectrum have laughed with him for depicting...
Political Courage Is Needed to Fight Antisemitism in France
Jew-hatred through demonization of Israel is flourishing in France with total impunity. On February 20, 2019, at the annual dinner held by the Jewish umbrella organization...
Jews Are the Collateral Victims of France’s Decline
I can precisely pinpoint Sunday, April 21, 2002, as the moment I decided to never come back to France to build my adult life. While I...
More Frightening Than Fiction: Virulently Antisemitic Egyptian Film Impresario Honored by the Institut Français
To Hollywood movie fans of my generation, Mideast history on the silver screen meant cinematic blockbusters like The Ten Commandments (1956) and Exodus (1960). The...
French Jews Spend Another Passover Under Antisemitism’s Shadow
JNS.org - This year, as last, the Jewish community in France will spend Passover in the shadow of the brutal murder of a vulnerable, elderly Jewish...
‘Céline’ Redux? France’s Publishing Problem
JNS.org - Mention the name “Celine” to most people in the United States -- or Europe, for that matter -- and they will think you’re talking about the long-serving Canadian...
No Hate of Halimi? The French Won’t See Antisemitism for What It Is
JNS.org - Flush from his victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French elections last July, President Emmanuel Macron decided to address head-on the...
Why Did France Turn a Blind Eye to the Murder of Sarah Halimi?
Five months ago, on April 4, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman named Lucette Attal-Halimi and known by her Hebrew name -- Sarah Halimi -- was attacked in the middle of...
Sarah Halimi, Sisyphus and the Denial of Antisemitic Violence
JNS.org -- It took too long for the French people to recognize the Jewish victim of a brutal April 4 murder by name. After weeks...
A Visit to the Jews of Cannes
I spent this past weekend on an annual family vacation to the South of France. As I have written before, Cannes is one of the most...
French Rejection of Tel Aviv Students Echoes 1942 Benzion Netanyahu Episode
JNS.org - The world-famous Louvre art museum stands accused of discriminating against Israeli students, after being exposed by some clever amateur investigative journalism that echoes a...
