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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

BNVCA National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism

A screen capture from an ad about antisemitism that aired on French television on July 14, 2024. (LICRA)
July 30, 2024, 1:58 am
In France, primetime ad shows Jewish family forced to hide identity due to antisemitism
The commercial moved many of its millions of viewers to tears, but angered others who said it was superficial and avoided pointing a finger at those to blame
By Canaan Lidor
Eyal Haddad, killed in a suspected antisemitic attack in France, is buried in Israel on September 1, 2022 (Screencapture/Twitter)
September 1, 2022, 2:33 pm
French Jewish man killed in suspected antisemitic attack buried in Israel
‘Antisemitism in France does not spare any Jew there,’ says Beersheba chief rabbi at funeral for Eyal Haddad; mourners urge French authorities to take strong action
By ToI Staff
Eyal Haddad, a Tunisian-Israeli Jewish man who was killed by his neighbor in France in August 2022. (Courtesy)
August 31, 2022, 7:04 pm
French Jewish man killed in suspected antisemitic attack to be buried in Israel
Announcing funeral, Israeli minister calls on Paris to ‘impose the most severe sentence’ on Muslim killer, citing spate of ‘horrific’ assaults on Jews
By ToI Staff
Eyal Haddad, a Tunisian-Israeli Jewish man who was killed by his neighbor in France in August 2022. (Courtesy)
August 30, 2022, 5:53 pm
Tunisian chief rabbi demands justice after apparent antisemitic axe murder in France
Jewish French MP says investigation ongoing into Eyal Haddad’s death at hands of his Muslim neighbor, who reportedly told police he did it because Haddad was Jewish
By Judah Ari Gross
A French police officer of the anti-crime squad, Brigade Anti-Criminalite de nuit (BAC N 75) is seen in Paris, on October 16, 2020. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
August 29, 2022, 8:27 pm
Jewish man killed by Muslim roommate in France; community questions official silence
Suspect turns himself in, says he killed Eyal Haddad with an axe over 100 euros he was owed and because victim was Jewish; community leaders urge probe of antisemitic aspect
By ToI Staff
A damaged house is pictured after floods in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, southeastern France, Oct.6, 2020 (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
October 10, 2020, 11:17 am
French Jewish group raises funds for flooded town that hid Jews in Holocaust
BNVCA collects $1,500 for residents of St. Martin de Vesubie; some 300 Jewish families were hidden there in WWII, although most were ultimately killed
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French soldiers patrol next to a Jewish school, in Paris. Jan. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
June 27, 2020, 5:46 am
Concrete slab hurled into home of 84-year-old Jewish woman near Paris
Anti-racist group calls attack a hate crime; victim uninjured but reportedly traumatized by incident, which comes amid surge in anti-Semitic acts in France
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Marseille's mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin chairs a town council, on January 27, 2020 at Marseille city hall. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP)
February 26, 2020, 9:13 am
Marseille mayor signs letter calling Tel Aviv ‘ex-Palestine’
French Jewish group complains about letter to resident born in Israeli city; municipality says description carried over from official records
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 17, 2019, 11:27 am
French prosecutors omit hate crime charges against burglars said to target Jews
Anti-Semitism watchdog says it is ‘astounded’ by indictment against three men who allegedly singled out Jewish family for attack, beat them and shouted ‘You Jews have money’
By JTA
French soldiers patrol on January 21, 2015, in front of a synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, as part of France's national security alert system Vigipirate. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)
June 21, 2019, 5:47 pm
Metal ball that hit Paris woman dropped by child, not anti-Semitic attack
Watchdog finds incident that seriously injures woman, 79, outside a synagogue was an accident; French Jewish group had labeled it ‘assault’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: French police officers stand outside a Hyper Cacher supermarket adjacent to the Promo & Destock store, a French kosher grocery store in Creteil, south of Paris, that was destroyed in an arson attack on January 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Alain Jocard)
December 19, 2018, 1:43 am
Paris woman’s nose broken in alleged anti-Semitic assault
20-year-old says two youths beat her, stole her phone and asked her: ‘Are you afraid, you Jewess?’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs, on December 1, 2018 in Paris. (Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)
December 13, 2018, 8:30 am
France tax protests often feature anti-Semitic rhetoric
With yellow vest demonstrators carrying signs calling Macron a ‘whore of the Jews,’ local Jewish leader says hateful messages were present ‘from the start’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The main synagogue in the city of Le Havre in western France. (Screenshot from Google Maps Street View via JTA)
August 1, 2018, 8:54 am
Anti-Zionist graffiti, Palestinian flag painted on French synagogue
Local activists urge authorities to arrest culprits, say act shows that those who oppose Israel are ‘notorious anti-Semites’
By JTA
Illustrative photo of Jews in Paris, January 12, 2015. (AFP Photo/Joel Saget)
July 19, 2018, 12:04 pm
Arab suspected of beating of Paris Jew sent to psychiatric review
Jewish groups decry move; French authorities say assailant, who shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ as he attacked man wearing kippa, was in ‘state of over-excitement’
By JTA
Paris Mosque rector Dalil Boubakeur delivers his speech during a conference at the 32nd Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) annual meeting at Le Bourget exhibition hall, north of Paris, France, on April 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
July 6, 2018, 10:37 pm
French watchdog accuses Muslim leader of inciting hatred of Jews
Police complaint filed against the rector of the Grande Mosque of Paris for defending imam who predicted Israel’s demise and a war in which Muslims would kill Jews
By JTA
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