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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Bernard-Henri Levy

Tunisia's President Kais Saied takes oath, October 21, 2024 in Tunis following his re-election. (Tunisian Presidency via AP)
April 20, 2025, 11:07 am
Tunisia opposition figures get jail terms in mass trial; defense pans ‘masquerade’
Court hands out sentences of up to 66 years for 40 defendants, including prominent opponents of President Saied; French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy said ordered jailed in absentia
By Kaouther Larbi
French National Rally leader Jordan Bardella (L) meets Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli in Washington on February 21, 2025 (Bardella/X)
March 15, 2025, 6:39 pm
French, German officials opt out after Israel invites far right to antisemitism conference
Bernard-Henri Levy and Berlin’s antisemitism czar withdraw from this month’s Jerusalem event after learning who else is on Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli’s guest list
By ToI Staff
Bernard-Henri Levy, center, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, October 11, 2023. (Benjamin Touati)
July 11, 2024, 9:08 am
In France, Bernard-Henri Lévy fights a lonely battle on behalf of a solitary Israel
The controversial intellectual superstar’s new book ‘Solitude d’Israel’ puts the Jewish state nearly alone on the world stage, while his advocacy is situated in a sea of antisemitism
By Robert Sarner
Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 6, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 11, 2024, 1:36 pm
‘Bring home the dead and the living’: Hostages’ families rally ahead of Memorial Day
Families of captives declared dead in Gaza speak in Tel Aviv, alongside French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy; anti-government protests urging elections to be held nationwide
By ToI Staff
Police secure a synagogue in Essen, Germany, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
December 3, 2022, 1:01 pm
Iran said using more hired assassins in plots against dissidents, Israelis and Jews
Washington Post reports Tehran recruited Colombian jewel thieves in a Dubai prison to target Israelis in Bogota, hired a drug dealer for plan to kill Bernard-Henri Levy in Paris
By ToI Staff
Bernard-Henri Levy at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on July 7, 2022. (Yuri Skvirski, i24NEWS)
July 7, 2022, 4:27 pm
Can Bernard-Henri Levy’s fast-tracked documentary stave off ennui about Ukraine?
In Tel Aviv this week, the French intellectual says Putin’s greatest ally is global fatigue, as he urges vigilance against Russia despite ongoing war’s fall from daily headlines
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: Student activists, some wearing masks with the colors of the pro-independence East Turkistan flag, shout slogans during a rally to protest the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
January 30, 2022, 7:38 pm
In NYT ad, Sharansky, Henri-Levy urge Olympics boycott over China’s abuse of Uighurs
Pair joins Elie Wiesel’s son in calling on athletes, corporate sponsors ‘to walk away from these games,’ set to open in Beijing on Friday
By Shira Hanau
Illustrative -- A protester holds a banner depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as a 'puppet' during a demonstration, part of a national day of protest against the mandatory COVID-19 health pass to access most of the public space, in Lille, northern France, on August 7, 2021. (Francois Lo Presti/AFP)
August 10, 2021, 9:08 pm
Frenchwoman faces antisemitism trial over sign calling prominent Jews ‘traitors’
Cassandre Fristot, 34, carried poster during demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions; police say it was ‘manifestly antisemitic’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative -- A protester holds a banner depicting French President Emmanuel Macron as a 'puppet' during a demonstration, part of a national day of protest against the mandatory COVID-19 health pass to access most of the public space, in Lille, northern France, on August 7, 2021. (Francois Lo Presti/AFP)
August 9, 2021, 2:46 pm
French prosecutors open probe into antisemitic sign raised at anti-vaccine rally
Poster lists names of public figures, including prominent Jews, implying they control the media and calling them ‘traitors’; politicians, Israeli embassy decry ‘despicable’ display
By Agencies and 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
French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy addresses the 38th World Zionist Congress, October 20, 2020. (Screenshot)
October 21, 2020, 5:40 am
Bernard-Henri Levy in unity plea amid right-wing Zionist Congress takeover bid
Philosopher speaks out as legacy Jewish organizations try to thwart power-sharing deal beneficial to the religious and right that threatens to marginalize progressive Jews
By Yaakov Schwartz
Bernard-Heni Levy in his 1994 film 'Bosna!' (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
January 10, 2020, 9:26 am
Celebrity philosopher ‘BHL’ talks gritty warzone films and rising anti-Semitism
From the Balkans to IS in Kurdistan, French thinker/filmmaker Bernard-Henri Levy’s films document the harsh reality of combat front lines. Now showing in NYC and LA through Jan. 18
By Jordan Hoffman
Dominique Sopo, Sacha Ghozlan, Mohamed Sifaoui and Sen. David Assouline attend the annual commemoration for the victims of the 2015 jihadist attack at the Hyper Cacher store in Paris, January 9, 2019. (Alain Azria)
January 11, 2019, 10:07 am
Anti-Semitism among ‘yellow vest’ protesters demoralizes France’s Jews
Incidents during demonstrations have included signs and slogans describing French president as a ‘whore of the Jews’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Kurdish people show their support for a referendum on independence for Kurdistan at a massive rally held at the Erbil Stadium in Erbil, Iraq, on September 22, 2017. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images via JTA)
November 30, 2017, 9:57 pm
Jewish activists for independent Kurdistan promote cause in NY, Jerusalem
Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan and other lawmakers host delegation of Kurds for conference on relations with Israel
By JTA
Bernard-Henri Lévy at Tel Aviv University in 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
October 5, 2017, 5:58 pm
NY film screening on Kurdish fighters sells out despite terror threat
Director Bernard-Henri Levy says Israel should embrace the Kurds, who waved Israeli flags on the day of their independence referendum
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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