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anti-Semitism in France

Naoise O Caireallain, left, and Liam Og of the hip hop trio Kneecap perform during the Glastonbury Festival, June 28, 2025. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
August 24, 2025, 11:55 am
Anti-Israel group Kneecap to perform in France, in defiance of objections
One member of Irish rap group is facing terror charges in UK for alleged Hezbollah support; French Jewish leader says concert ‘desecrating the memory’ of victims of October 7
By AFP
Security forces are seen arresting a woman, said to be the director of the French Kinneret summer camp, after her group of some 50 kids was removed from an airplane in Valencia, Spain, on July 23, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 24, 2025, 3:25 pm
50 Jewish kids removed from flight in Spain amid conflicting accounts of clash
Reports say group sang in Hebrew aboard aircraft; their summer camp and an Israeli minister blame antisemitic attitude; airline says they were unruly and uncompliant
By Zev Stub, Nava Freiberg and AFP
Green paint that was thrown on the walls of the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue in Paris on May 31, 2025. (Thibaud Moritz/AFP)
May 31, 2025, 7:21 pm
Holocaust memorial, two synagogues in Paris vandalized with green paint
French politicians condemn acts; interior minister has called for heightened surveillance for Jewish community ahead of Shavuot holiday
By AFP and ToI Staff
Rabbi Arié Engelberg, chief rabbi of Orleans, France, giving an online sermon (Screenshot/Arié Engelberg, YouTube)
March 23, 2025, 5:57 pm
Chief rabbi of Orléans assaulted in antisemitic hate crime, French authorities say
Rabbi Arié Engelberg is attacked while walking with son, suffering head injury; teenage suspect is arrested; Macron condemns incident as example of the ‘poison’ of antisemitism
By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies
Noa Mimran stands in her classroom at Hadassah Academic College where she is a first-year optometry student. (Courtesy)
December 11, 2024, 6:09 pm
Hadassah Academic College launches new program for French immigrants
The Jerusalem-based school aims to help French-speaking immigrants study optometry and Hebrew while adjusting to a new life in Israel amid post-Oct. 7 surge in antisemitism
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Torch bearer and French BMX world champion Matthias Dandois holds the Olympic flame at the Trocadero in front of the Eiffel Tower during the Olympic torch relay in Paris on July 15, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)
July 20, 2024, 5:16 pm
French alleged neo-Nazi, suspected of Olympic torch relay plot, jailed for 2 years
19-year-old jailed in swift trial for sharing bomb-making instructions on social media, posts inciting hate, death threats; authorities suspect he wanted to target torch ceremony
By AP
Framed extracts of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine's (portrait) correspondence displayed at the Gallimard gallery during the exhibition titled 'Celine, recovered manuscripts' in Paris, May 3, 2022. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)
May 4, 2022, 11:37 am
Manuscript by famed pro-Nazi French author resurfaces after 78 years
Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s ‘Guerre’ to hit bookstores decades following his abandonment of personal papers as the Allies approached Paris during WWII
By Hugues HONORE
Jean-Luc Melenchon at a campaign rally in Lille, France, April 12, 2017. (Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images via JTA)
June 8, 2021, 11:59 pm
French far-left candidate claims 2012 Jewish slayings an election conspiracy
Jean-Luc Melenchon suggests murder of 4 Jews in Toulouse was ‘all planned in advance’ to allow some ‘to point fingers at Muslims and invent a civil war’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A police car drives past the Grand Mosque in Paris, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
May 8, 2021, 6:33 pm
France arrests neo-Nazi group planning violent attack
Group calls itself ‘Honor and Nation’; 3 suspects charged with forming a ‘terrorist criminal association’
By AFP
A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial system's handling of the Sarah Halimi case, April 25, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/ via JTA)
May 3, 2021, 8:47 pm
What the Sarah Halimi case and current protests mean for French Jewry
Demonstrations erupted in France and across the world last week as Jews protested a ruling that the murderer of a Jewish woman in 2017 will not stand trial. Is it the last straw?
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Some of the protesters at the Justice for Sarah Halimi rally in Paris, April 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
April 30, 2021, 4:46 pm
At Sarah Halimi rally in Paris, signs French Jewry is nearing a breaking point
Unlike the informal, stoic and often patriotic demonstrations protesting antisemitic violence until now, this week’s protest had a palpable air of disillusionment and even despair
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and President Reuven Rivlin at a press conference in Jerusalem on January 22, 2020. (Jacques Witt/Pool/AFP)
April 28, 2021, 8:32 pm
Rivlin hails Macron for backing law change after Halimi’s killer avoids trial
President pens letter to French counterpart thanking him for ‘quick, clear response’ to Jewish woman’s murder, says it sends clear message that current law is deficient
By ToI Staff
People stage a protest organized by Jewish associations, who say justice has not been done for the killing of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, at Trocadero Plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
April 27, 2021, 6:56 pm
For many French Jews, Halimi murder a ‘watershed moment’ of distrust in France
20,000-strong Paris protest a rare show of raw emotion from local Jewish community over government’s response to antisemitism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An illustration of Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement.)
April 25, 2021, 1:17 pm
#JeSuisSarah: Social media campaign launched demanding justice for Sarah Halimi
Combat Anti-Semitism Movement calls for global protest against ‘unfathomable’ French court ruling that murderer of Jewish woman not criminally responsible because he was high
By ToI Staff
President of the Laws Commision at the French National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet holds a paper flower offered by a man at the 'Centre de Retention Administrative' (CRA), a migrant detention center in Vincennes, eastern Paris, on September 18, 2019. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)
February 20, 2021, 11:59 am
Hate mail to French-Jewish lawmaker tells her to ‘prepare for the camps’
Yaël Braun-Pivet from LREM centrist party of Emmanuel Macron shares Twitter post with anti-Semitic messages sent to private email
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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