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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

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French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) President and MEP Jordan Bardella listens to speeches as part of the celebrations for International Women's Rights Day, during a plenary session of the European Parliament on March 11, 2025 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Frederick Florin / AFP)
March 24, 2025, 3:20 pm
French Jewish group seeks distance from Israeli confab drawing far-right leaders
CRIF umbrella group stresses invites for Jordan Bardella, Marion Marechal to attend Jerusalem antisemitism event came from Israeli authorities, noting ‘distrust’ of National Rally
By AFP and ToI Staff
This combination of photographs created on June 16, 2024, shows French far-right party National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen (L) in Paris on October 20, 2021 and Jean-Luc Melenchon (R), candidate of the French left coalition New Popular Front for France's elections for the National Assembly, in Paris on January 24, 2017. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)
June 29, 2024, 4:40 pm
In snap election, many French Jews reluctantly endorse far right over dreaded far left
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
By Canaan Lidor
Protesters hold placards which read "Antisemitism is not residual," "+1000% in antisemitic acts, these aren't just figures," "Our lives are worth more than the imported conflict" and "Raped Jewish girl, Republic in danger" as they gather to condemn the alleged antisemitic gang rape of a 12 year-old girl, during a rally on Lyon Terreaux square in Lyon, central eastern France, on June 19, 2024. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP)
June 20, 2024, 5:50 pm
As far right and hard left vie for votes, French Jews seek least antisemitic party
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
By Claire Gallen
France's Prime Minister Gabriel Attal delivers a speech during the annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) at the Louvre Carrousel in Paris on May 6, 2024. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)
May 7, 2024, 9:03 pm
French PM attacks the left for giving Israel ‘moral lessons’ during Gaza war
Gabriel Attal accuses La France Insoumise party and its leader of ‘never having a word for the victims of October 7’
By ToI Staff
Rima Hassan, founder of the Refugees Camps Observatory (Observatoire des Camps de Réfugies - OCR), in Paris, France, November 14, 2019. (Dominique Faget / AFP)
February 3, 2024, 7:11 am
In France, a celebrity flame war about Israel highlights shifting attitudes
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
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: This picture taken on July 17, 2023 shows a graffito in German and French reading 'Hail Hitler, death to Jews' and with a swastika, on a monument in memory of 55 people executed at this site by the Nazis in 1944 during World War II, in Ploeuc-L'Hermitage, some 20km south of Saint-Brieuc, western France. (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP)
January 6, 2024, 7:38 am
‘I’m afraid every day for my children’: As antisemitism soars, French Jews flee to Israel
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
By Romain Chauvet
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting with officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, November 9, 2023. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)
November 14, 2023, 4:15 pm
French Jews worry Muslim unrest could see Macron flip on Israel, putting them at risk
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
By Canaan Lidor
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas (L) poses next Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo after receiving the Grand Vermeil medal during a ceremony marking the International Day of Peace on September 21, 2015 at City Hall, Paris, France (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP)
September 8, 2023, 4:36 pm
Paris strips Abbas of top medal: ‘You justified the extermination of Europe’s Jews’
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’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at a press conference announcing the Jewish Security Alliance at the ADL's investigative research lab. Behind him is Scott Richman, the regional director of ADL’s New York-New Jersey Office, CSS CEO Evan Bernstein and CSI Executive Director Mitch Silber. (Jacob Henry via JTA)
July 25, 2023, 10:15 am
ADL sets up a 7-country international task force on antisemitism
The American group’s partners in the J7 initiative are major Jewish communal organizations in Britain, France, Germany, Argentina, Canada and Australia
By ToI Staff
The CEO of the American Jewish Committee, Ted Deutch, left, interviews Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on June 11, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Courtesy of AJC)
July 24, 2023, 10:27 pm
‘First step to destroying democracy’: Diaspora groups alarmed as overhaul law passes
Major community organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere express their concern following the vote on the reasonableness law
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative. Police guard a synagogue during a visit by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in Marseille, southern France, January 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
July 1, 2023, 7:49 am
Four men jailed over French far-right terror plot against Jewish and Muslim targets
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
By AFP
Illustrative: French police officer guards the synagogue of Biarritz, southwestern France, January 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)
June 19, 2023, 8:03 pm
Four far-right suspects on trial in France for terror plot targeting Jewish sites
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
By AFP
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a conference in Jerusalem on May 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 6, 2023, 11:59 pm
Smotrich shunned by French officials, Jewish leaders on Paris trip
Finance minister participates in OECD gathering, but turned down for meetings with local counterparts; heads of three Jewish groups said to also rebuff Religious Zionism chief
By ToI Staff
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
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