Posts Tagged: France
Antisemitism in 2016: Global Challenge Lacks a Global Strategy
JNS.org - Another week, another litany of ugly incidents targeting Jews, along with expressions of concern about rising antisemitism around the globe, and even the odd...
Fig Leaves Won’t Protect French Jews
When a teenager claiming to act for Islamic State attacked a Jewish teacher with a machete in Marseille on January 11, Zvi Ammar, president of...
UK Synagogue Hires French-Speaking Rabbi Amid Influx of Jews From France
A UK synagogue has hired a French-speaking rabbi to serve the congregation's Gallic community that has immigrated to Britain largely since the ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks last January...
Social Media Solidarity Campaign Calls on All French Citizens to Wear Yarmulkes
A campaign was launched in France calling on all citizens to don the Jewish skullcap this Friday, after the Marseilles chief rabbi urged fellow residents to avoid wearing kippot, out of...
Iran Rushing to Acquire Military Planes, Weapons Despite Sanctions
Iran is rushing to make weapons purchases prohibited by existing sanctions, the London-based pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Wednesday. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...
French Authorities Calling Terrorists ‘Unbalanced’ to Cover Antisemitic Motives, Major Jewish Group Claims
Calling terrorists with seeming antisemitic motives "unbalanced" has become a politically correct cover for the perpetrators of antisemitic attacks, declared the director of international relations at the Simon Wiesenthal...
French-Jewish Leader Found Dead in Apartment; Police Probing Antisemitic Motive Behind Murder
French police are investigating the death of a 73-year-old Jewish leader, found dead in his apartment in a suburb of Paris. Police are probing the possibility of "antisemitic aggression" behind the...
Former French President Sarkozy: We Did Not Fight Nazis to Force Jews to Run to Israel
"We did not fight the Nazis to force the Jews to run to Israel 70 years later," declared French President Nicolas Sarkozy before an awards...
French Police Probe Marseilles Stabbing Attack as Antisemitic Hate Crime
A Jewish schoolteacher in France was stabbed by a teenager in what police are investigating as a hate crime, Israeli media reported on Monday. According to Channel 2,...
Joint Int’l Jewish-Israeli Initiative for Easing Aliyah: 100 Hebrew-Language Institutes to Open Across France
The World Zionist Organization is planning to open some 100 new Hebrew-language institutes across France in 2016, in an effort to ease the process of immigration...
Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy Calls ISIS Islamism the ‘Third Fascism’
The Islamism promulgated by groups like ISIS is the "third fascism of our time," declared French author-cum-philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, during an interview with i24 News in Tel Aviv-Jaffa this week. Lévy elaborated on his...
Marseilles Teacher Recounts Horrific Antisemitic Attack at Hands of ISIS Slashers
A day after he was attacked by three apparent ISIS supporters on the streets of Marseilles in southern France, Rabbi Tzion Saadon said he believes Israel is the safest place...
After Raid on ISIS Terrorists in Saint-Denis, French Security Chief Admits Using Israeli Counter-Terror Techniques
The head of RAID, the special ops French police unit that led Wednesday's raid -- in which the apparent ringleader of Friday's devastating ISIS attacks was killed -- said his unit's latest counter-terrorism techniques...
Jewish Teacher Stabbed by Three ISIS Supporters in Marseille, Police Say
Three men attacked a Jewish teacher in the southern French city of Marseilles Wednesday night, stabbing him and fleeing while crying out support for ISIS, according to...
