Posts Tagged: France antisemitism
French Teacher Receives Suspended Jail Sentence for Agitating Antisemitism
JNS.org - A teacher in France received a suspended jail sentence on Wednesday for raising an antisemitic sign at a demonstration over the country’s coronavirus...
‘Dirty Jews Out’: Residents of Paris Neighborhood Targeted With Antisemitic Hate Mail
Residents of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Paris have been targeted in separate incidents this week that involved antisemitic hate mail delivered to their homes. The...
Vaccine Refusal Activist Who Brandished Antisemitic Sign That Went Viral Is Sentenced by French Court
A vaccine refusal activist has been convicted by a court in France of incitement to racial hatred for displaying an antisemitic sign at a demonstration...
Mireille Knoll, Holocaust Survivor Murdered in Brutal Antisemitic Attack, Honored in Paris Street-Naming Ceremony
Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in her Paris apartment in a horrific antisemitic attack in 2018, has been commemorated in the French capital...
Quashing Verdict in Favor of Far-Right Activist, Top French Court Urges Vigilance Against ‘Disguised, Allusive’ Antisemitism
France's highest court has quashed the appeal clearing a notorious far-right activist and Holocaust denier of promoting antisemitic hatred with a rap video that featured...
French Court Hands Suspended Sentences to Defendants Convicted of Antisemitic Harassment of Beauty Queen
A court in France has sentenced eight defendants to a two-month suspended prison sentence after they were convicted for the antisemitic harassment of a beauty...
‘There Is a Jew Hiding Behind Me — Come and Kill Him’
JNS.org - When the former Trump administration announced that it was moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in December 2017, the reaction...
French Court Acquits Imam of Incitement for Sermon That Cited Hadith Urging Muslim Violence Against Jews
A French court has acquitted an imam in the city of Toulouse of incitement to racial hatred for a sermon he gave in 2017 that...
French Cops Arrest Ringleader of Violent Assault on Jewish Man in Lyon
Police in the French city of Lyon have arrested the ringleader of an antisemitic attack on a Jewish man wearing a kippa that took place...
French Antisemitic Website Disappears From View as Interior Minister Denounces ‘Scandalous, Nauseating’ Content
A vitriolic antisemitic website in France inspired by a World War II era pro-Nazi weekly newspaper has been denounced by the country's interior minister, who...
Former French Parliamentary Candidate Arrested for Brandishing ‘Abject’ Antisemitic Sign at Vaccine Refusal Demonstration
A school teacher and former parliamentary candidate for two far-right parties in France has been arrested by the authorities after she brandished a virulently antisemitic...
Antisemitic Vandals Use Blowtorch to Deface Holocaust Memorial in French City With Swastikas
Antisemitic vandals defaced a memorial to the Holocaust in the French city of Grenoble by engraving swastikas into its metal plate using a blowtorch. The grisly...
Antisemitic Gang Who Assaulted and Robbed Jewish Family in Paris Sentenced by French Court
A court in Paris has sentenced nine individuals to prison sentences ranging from four to 12 years after they were convicted for a vicious gang...
From La Quenelle to Le Sestrel: Inside the Cryptocurrency Scam Pushed by Convicted French Antisemite Dieudonné
On Saturday afternoon, beneath an overcast sky in the hamlet of Saint-Lubin-de-la-Haye (pop. 908) in northern France, about 1,000 people gathered in a tree-lined field...
