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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

France anti-Semitism

French Members of Parliament for La France Insoumise (LFI) parliamentary group, Thomas Portes (L) and Aymeric Caron talk to the press near the entrance of the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris) during an anti-Israel student protest, in Paris on May 3, 2024. (Miguel Medina/AFP)
July 22, 2024, 10:14 am
Outrage after French lawmaker says Israeli athletes not welcome at Paris Olympics
Far-left MP condemned by political allies, Jewish groups but doubles down, comparing war against Hamas to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as he seeks to ban Israel from sporting event
By ToI Staff and AFP
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
Illustrative: A Deliveroo driver is seen in traffic in north London, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Robert Stevens, File)
April 19, 2021, 2:27 pm
Delivery man who refused service to French Jews deported to his native Algeria
Dhia Edine D., who was living in France illegally, declined to deliver food made by a Strasbourg kosher restaurant
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Police arrest a man armed with a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market in Marseille, France, March 5, 2021 (video screenshot)
March 5, 2021, 12:12 pm
Man wielding knife overpowered outside Jewish school, kosher store in France
School in Marseille locked down as security guards stop armed man trying to enter shop, hand him over to police; authorities boost security for city’s Jewish sites
By ToI Staff and AP
A municipal worker cleans swastikas spray painted on columns of the Rivoli Street in central Paris, on October 11, 2020. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)
February 15, 2021, 4:14 am
French chief rabbi, fellow communal leaders clash over France’s Jewish future
In a series of op-eds from Jewish community, Rabbi Haim Korsia is accused of insensitivity toward those who move to Israel out of fear of anti-Semitism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative. A French policeman standing with his equipment, April 12, 2019. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)
April 15, 2019, 9:14 pm
Man in France stabs neighbor 15 times, says he ‘wanted to kill a Jew’
58-year-old non-Jewish victim repeatedly stabbed in attack said to be similar to two recent anti-Semitic murders in the country
By JTA and ToI Staff
Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)
March 20, 2019, 1:12 pm
Suspect in 2017 Paris killing of Sarah Halimi deemed unfit for trial
Final ruling yet to be made on the 3rd psychiatric assessment of Kobili Traore, and lawyers for victim’s family may appeal; Jewish community says the slaying was anti-Semitic
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A picture taken on February 19, 2019, shows swastikas painted on graves at a Jewish cemetery in the French town of Quatzenheim close to the German border (Frederick Florin/AFP)
February 19, 2019, 2:59 pm
80 graves vandalized at Jewish cemetery in France
Swastikas daubed on headstones in Strasbourg hours ahead of nationwide rallies against recent upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks
By AFP
Jerome Bourbon, editor of far-right French magazine Rivarol (YouTube screenshot)
February 19, 2019, 6:14 am
French far-right weekly barred from Twitter over anti-Semitism
Activists celebrate victory over hate speech; only last week Rivarol magazine tweeted that hatred for Jews was understandable and deserved to increase further
By AFP
Demonstrators in Paris on February 16, 2019, marking three months of "yellow vest" protests against government policies. (ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP)
February 17, 2019, 11:39 am
Macron slams anti-Semitic attack on French academic
Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut hit with insults by yellow-vest protesters in Paris
By AFP
Illustrative photo of police officers standing guard in front of the Sarcelles synagogue, July 21, 2014 (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
June 15, 2018, 12:27 pm
Teenage girl assaulted at Jewish school near Paris
Prosecutor says it has not been established whether the incident was an anti-Semitic attack
By JTA
Mehdi Meklat (Wikipedia/ Creative Commons)
March 3, 2017, 10:14 pm
French Arab coexistence champion was anti-Semitic tweeter
Mehdi Meklat, 24, had been widely regarded as a proponent of religious and ethnic harmony
By JTA
Emmanuel Navon
March 2, 2017, 4:05 pm
Emmanuel Navon
The Titanic of the French Left
The media’s embrace of a rabid, homophobic Jew-hater exposes moral bankruptcy and blindness to Muslim anti-Semitism
Pinchas Landau
January 30, 2017, 3:57 pm
Pinchas Landau
The Jews of la-la-France
Two pieces of advice for French Jewry: 1. Don’t expect the Israeli government to help, and 2. Get out anyway
Les Republicains party presidential primary contender and former French prime minister Francois Fillon on November 20, 2016 in Paris. (AFP Photo/Pool/Thomas Samson)
November 23, 2016, 4:38 pm
French presidential candidate: It took time for Jews to respect our laws
Francois Fillon of center-right Republicans cites Jewish community as proof that Muslims can integrate in France
By JTA
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