The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/crif/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:41:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png CRIF | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/crif/ 32 32 In France, praise for Nazi collaborator Petain prompts legal action, condemnation https://www.timesofisrael.com/praise-for-french-nazi-collaborator-petain-prompts-legal-action-condemnation/ Sun, 16 Nov 2025 02:24:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3689598 Jewish umbrella group CRIF slams event honoring Philippe Petain, who led Vichy France and presided over the deportation of some 75,000 Jews

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]]> ‘Dirty Jew, I’m going to kill you’: Man injured in antisemitic attack in Paris suburb https://www.timesofisrael.com/dirty-jew-im-going-to-kill-you-man-injured-in-antisemitic-attack-in-paris-suburb/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:09:29 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3652337 No arrests made; 60-year-old victim wearing a kippah was approached from behind and hit on head, damaging his eye; Jewish leader: 'How long will this repeated hatred be tolerated?'

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]]> ‘The shock is gone’: All too used to antisemitism, Parisian Jews weather post-Oct. 7 storm with aplomb https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-shock-is-gone-all-too-used-to-antisemitism-parisian-jews-weather-post-oct-7-storm-with-aplomb/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:58:23 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3600283 The City of Love's 300,000-strong Jewish community lives with a mix of 'vitality and caution,' having coped with increased Jew-hatred since the turn of the century

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]]> French Jewish group seeks distance from Israeli confab drawing far-right leaders https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-jewish-group-seeks-distance-from-israeli-confab-drawing-far-right-leaders/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:20:51 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3509655 CRIF umbrella group stresses invites for Jordan Bardella, Marion Marechal to attend Jerusalem antisemitism event came from Israeli authorities, noting 'distrust' of National Rally

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]]> In snap election, many French Jews reluctantly endorse far right over dreaded far left https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-snap-election-many-french-jews-reluctantly-endorse-far-right-over-dreaded-far-left/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:40:15 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3317758 As Macron sends voters to the polls on Sunday, unprecedented levels of antisemitism after October 7 have prominent Jews reluctantly backing a party founded by a Holocaust denier

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]]> As far right and hard left vie for votes, French Jews seek least antisemitic party https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-far-right-and-hard-left-vie-for-votes-french-jews-seek-party-of-least-antisemitism/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:50:07 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3315482 Despite attempts to win community over, Le Pen's RN is seen as main danger to Jews by left-wing organizations, though rival's anti-Israel leanings complicate choice for many

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]]> French PM attacks the left for giving Israel ‘moral lessons’ during Gaza war https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-pm-attacks-the-left-for-giving-israel-moral-lessons-during-gaza-war/ Tue, 07 May 2024 18:03:46 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3284616 Gabriel Attal accuses La France Insoumise party and its leader of 'never having a word for the victims of October 7'

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]]> In France, a celebrity flame war about Israel highlights shifting attitudes https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-france-a-celebrity-flame-war-about-israel-highlights-shifting-attitudes/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 05:11:39 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3213973 Young Palestinian woman - a Hamas advocate - enjoys an outpouring of sympathy following a wealthy Jewish TV star's rebuke of her remarks supporting the Oct. 7 massacre

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]]> ‘I’m afraid every day for my children’: As antisemitism soars, French Jews flee to Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/im-afraid-every-day-for-my-children-as-antisemitism-soars-french-jews-flee-to-israel/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 05:38:46 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3193168 With over 1,500 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7 and mid-November - three times the reported number in the entire 2022 - more French Jews seek to escape the climate of fear

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]]> French Jews worry Muslim unrest could see Macron flip on Israel, putting them at risk https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-jews-worry-muslim-unrest-could-see-macron-flip-on-israel-putting-them-at-risk/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:15:25 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3152913 Reversing his stated support for Israel, the president demanded an end to 'killing babies,' triggering fears that he's bowing to local pressures and thus inciting antisemitism

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]]> Paris strips Abbas of top medal: ‘You justified the extermination of Europe’s Jews’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/paris-revokes-honorary-medal-from-abbas-following-antisemitic-remarks/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:36:11 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3091617 Mayor Anne Hidalgo joins other European and US leaders to denounce PA president for antisemitic Holocaust speech, in which, she says, he denied 'the historical truth of the Shoah'

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]]> ADL sets up a 7-country international task force on antisemitism https://www.timesofisrael.com/adl-sets-up-international-task-force-on-antisemitism-with-6-jewish-community-groups/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:15:35 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3057891 The American group's partners in the J7 initiative are major Jewish communal organizations in Britain, France, Germany, Argentina, Canada and Australia

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]]> ‘First step to destroying democracy’: Diaspora groups alarmed as overhaul law passes https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-diaspora-groups-alarmed-by-passage-of-first-judicial-overhaul-law/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:27:40 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3058077 Major community organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere express their concern following the vote on the reasonableness law

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]]> Four men jailed over French far-right terror plot against Jewish and Muslim targets https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-men-guilty-over-french-far-right-terror-plot-against-jewish-and-muslim-targets/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 04:49:26 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3043648 27-year-old former voluntary police officer, accused of being ringleader, to serve 18 years; other three, one of whom was a minor at the time, given lighter terms

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]]> Four far-right suspects on trial in France for terror plot targeting Jewish sites https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-far-right-suspects-on-trial-in-france-for-terror-plot-targeting-jewish-sites/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:03:31 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3036507 Accused men discussed attack on Jewish community offices and mosques in group chat named Operation WaffenKraft, in a nod to Nazi Waffen-SS military branch

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