Posts Tagged: France antisemitism
Unfazed by Threats From Radicals, French Imam Calls for Liberation of Islam From ‘Islamism’
A Muslim imam known in France for his efforts to advance interfaith dialogue with Jews and Christians this week sounded a stark warning about the...
New Report Shines Light on Endemic Nature of Antisemitism in France
An in-depth study of antisemitism in France has revealed that the vast majority of French Jews — 74 percent — have experienced some form of...
‘Because He Was a Jew’: Kidnapping and Murder of Ilan Halimi in Paris Commemorated Amid French Election Battle
Against the background of this year's presidential election in France, Jewish organizations and French politicians have marked the sixteenth anniversary of the kidnapping and murder...
‘They Are Lying’: French Parliamentary Inquiry Into Antisemitic Murder of Sarah Halimi Ends in Disarray
A French parliamentary inquiry into the case of a Jewish woman murdered in her own home by an antisemitic intruder ended in disarray this week,...
‘Bestial’: Veteran Nazi War Crimes Investigator Serge Klarsfeld Attacks Far-Right French Presidential Candidate Eric Zemmour
A leading historian of the Holocaust whose investigative efforts resulted in the post-war prosecutions of Nazi war criminals has launched a scathing attack on a...
Antisemitic Killer of Sarah Halimi Refused Treatment From Jewish Nurse at Psychiatric Hospital, French Parliamentary Inquiry Told
A French parliamentary inquiry into the April 2017 murder of a Jewish woman in her own home by an antisemitic assailant has heard that the...
‘Are You a Jeweler and a Jew?’: Elderly French Jewish Man Attacked and Robbed in His Paris Apartment by Antisemitic Assailants
The first details have emerged of the terrifying ordeal of a 70-year-old Jewish man in Paris who was beaten, robbed and tied to a chair...
French Anti-Terror Judges Order Trial of Former Soldier Alleged to Have Plotted Massacre Of Jewish Community
A former French soldier is set to go on trial before the Paris Criminal Court charged with planning "lone wolf" terrorist attacks on Jewish community...
‘Justice Has Been Done’: Antisemitic Murderer of Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll Sentenced to Life Imprisonment by French Court
The murder trial that compelled France to confront the violent antisemitism in its midst came to a dramatic close on Wednesday, as a court in...
Accused Killers of French Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll Set Out to Murder a ‘Y*d,’ Son Tells Court in Ongoing Trial
As the trial of the two men charged with the killing of French Jewish Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll entered its fifth day, the court heard...
‘These Traditions Are Linked to Judaism’: French Far-Left Leader Mélenchon Offers Bizarre Defense of Far-Right Pundit Over Charge of Antisemitism
The leader of France's main far-left political party was embroiled in a new controversy involving antisemitism over the weekend, following a television interview in which...
‘How Could They Have Murdered This Angel?’: Son of Murdered Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll Delivers Impassioned Testimony at Trial of Accused Antisemitic Killers
Relatives and friends of Mireille Knoll — the 85-year-old French Holocaust survivor robbed and stabbed to death in a brutal antisemitic assault in 2018 —...
‘This Hatred Can Only Be Antisemitism’: Trial Opens in Paris of Two Men Charged With Brutal Murder of Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll
The murder trial of two men denounced as "monsters" by the family of their victim — an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust in France who...
Paris Cops Could Have Prevented Antisemitic Murder of Sarah Halimi, Didn’t Act, French Parliamentary Inquiry Is Told
French police were in a position to prevent the brutal antisemitic murder of a Jewish woman in her Paris apartment in April 2017 but failed...
