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antisemitism in France

Far-right party National Rally president Jordan Bardella, left, attends a press conference to support far-right candidate for Marseille mayoral election, Franck Allisio, right, in Marseille, south of France, on March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Philippe Magoni)
May 7, 2026, 6:01 pm
French far-right leaders quietly meet Israeli, German envoys ahead of run for presidency
National Rally party chief Marine Le Pen and deputy Jordan Bardella play down significance of talks with ambassadors, as faction seeks to shed its reputation for antisemitism
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: French gendarmes stand guard in front of a courtroom at the Paris Appeal Court in the Palais de Justice courthouse in Paris on March 16, 2026. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)
April 18, 2026, 4:08 am
French court rules antisemitism not a motive in nanny’s poisoning of Jewish family
Despite defendant telling police ‘they have money and power” and ‘I should never have worked for a Jewish woman,’ appeals court denies Algerian caretaker was driven by Jew hatred
By Grace Gilson
Police officers and others run in front of Jo Goldenberg, a Jewish restaurant and deli, in Paris, after it was attacked by terrorists on August 9, 1982. (AP Photo/ Aulnay)
April 16, 2026, 6:42 pm
PA said to extradite to France key suspect in 1982 Paris antisemitic terror attack
Hicham Harb, suspected of leading gunmen in attack on Jo Goldenberg restaurant in which six were killed, was reportedly arrested by PA forces in September
By Nurit Yohanan and AFP
Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/ Getty Images via AFP)
April 15, 2026, 1:48 pm
Kanye West postpones Marseille concert after French authorities say they’ll seek ban
Artist with history of antisemitic remarks and actions says he takes responsibility for his past, but doesn’t want to put his fans ‘in the middle of it’
By AP and ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, 100, attends a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of death camp deportees, in Paris, France, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
March 31, 2026, 1:31 pm
At 101, Holocaust survivor credits Spielberg for her ongoing fight against hatred
Ginette Kolinka, who survived Auschwitz, stayed silent for decades until Hollywood director’s foundation interviewed her in 1997; now, she shares her story in media and schools
By John Leicester
Illustrative: French law enforcement officers stand in front of a synagogue after two cars, one containing a gas bottle, were set alight in the area that morning, causing an explosion that injured a local policeman, La Grande-Motte, south of France, on August 24, 2024. (Pascal GUYOT / AFP)
March 15, 2026, 11:54 pm
Two brothers investigated in France on suspicion of planning antisemitic attack
Counterterrorism prosecutor’s office says police found a firearm, a bottle of acid, and an ISIS flag in their car last week
By Reuters and ToI Staff
(From L) Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia, France's President Emmanuel Macron and Anne-Laure Abitbol, sister of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew who was tortured and murdered in 2006, attend a ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of his murder at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on February 13, 2026. (Bertrand GUAY / POOL / AFP)
February 13, 2026, 2:48 pm
Honoring 2006 Jewish murder victim, Macron says ‘antisemitic hydra’ has only grown since
Marking 20 years since Ilan Halimi’s brutal killing, French president denounces Islamist, far-left and far-right anti-Jewish hate, noting some of it is masked as anti-Zionism
By AFP
Nora Bussigny in Paris, August 28, 2023.(Samuel Kirszenbaum/ Courtesy Éditions Albin Michel)
January 17, 2026, 7:25 pm
An undercover reporter joined France’s anti-Israel movement. Here’s what she found
In her explosive book ‘Les Nouveaux Antisemites,’ journalist Nora Bussigny reveals pervasive hatred of Jews and Israel on the radical left and worries for country’s future
By Robert Sarner
Former French prime minister Manuel Valls speaks to The Times of Israel in Jerusalem, January 15, 2026. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
January 15, 2026, 7:51 pm
Anti-Zionism ‘profoundly linked’ to hatred of Jews, former French PM says in Jerusalem
Calling Macron’s decision to avoid antisemitism march a ‘wound,’ Manuel Valls claims most in France don’t support Palestinian recognition though Paris’s stance toward Israel a ‘paradox’
By Lazar Berman
French President Emmanuel Macron (center) stands in front of members of the French Republican Guard holding portraits of French citizens killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities, during a ceremony at the Invalides memorial complex in Paris, on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
January 14, 2026, 8:55 pm
French publisher withdraws textbooks that called Oct. 7 victims ‘Jewish settlers’
Macron criticizes the books for ‘falsification of the facts’ as publishers launch internal investigation
By AFP
A man snatches a game controller from a young child while demanding that he "free Palestine" and telling him to dance in a video from June 25, 2025, which French police confirmed on December 23, 2025, that they were probing on suspicion of having been committed on the grounds of discrimination against race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 23, 2025, 10:41 pm
France launches probe over video of man seen harassing Jewish boy at Paris airport
Video from June shows suspect snatching video game from child’s hands, calling him a pig, demanding that he dance for him
By AFP
France's human rights ambassador Isabelle Lonvis-Rome speaks to The Times of Israel in Jaffa, December 18, 2025. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
December 19, 2025, 1:23 pm
‘From the river to the sea’ chant is antisemitic, says France’s human rights envoy
Speaking to The Times of Israel from Jaffa days after deadly Sydney shooting, Isabelle Lonvis-Rome says attacking Israel’s ‘existence’ is intolerable
By Lazar Berman
This photograph shows a sign reading "public access" and "personnel access and lawyers" at the entrance of the Judicial Court in Nanterre, Paris' suburb, on July 29, 2025. (Thomas Samson/AFP)
December 18, 2025, 8:33 pm
French court jails nanny for poisoning Jewish family but dismisses antisemitism charge
Aggravating circumstance thrown out for procedural reasons, as alleged antisemitic remarks to police only came after the poisoning, weren’t recorded in presence of lawyer
By AFP and Zev Stub
Illustrative: A Star of David gold necklace (iStock by Getty Images)
December 9, 2025, 1:55 pm
‘Because they have money’: Algerian nanny on trial for poisoning Jewish family in Paris
The suspect, an illegal migrant to France, allegedly added toxic materials to the food while caring for family’s three kids
By Zev Stub
Protesters hold placards decrying antisemitism as they gather to condemn the antisemitic gang rape of a 12-year-old girl, during a rally in Lyon, France, June 19, 2024. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP)
November 19, 2025, 9:37 pm
Sentence reduced for French teen convicted in antisemitic gang rape of Jewish girl, 12
The teen, one of three convicted for the crime, has prison term cut from nine to seven years for incident last year that drew widespread outcry
By ToI Staff
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