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In this file photo taken on January 15, 2017, the Mayor of the 16th arrondissement Claude Goasguen greets protestors as they demonstrate during a rally in Paris against the Paris Middle East peace conference taking place in the French capital. (Photo by Pierre Constant/ AFP)
May 28, 2020, 5:12 pm
French lawmaker Claude Goasguen, staunch Israel supporter, dies of virus aged 75
‘I am in total solidarity with Israel. My great regret is that I am not a Jew myself,’ he said last year; Netanyahu, Jewish leaders pay tribute to Parisian politician
By Agencies and ToI Staff
CRIF President Francis Kalifat poses in Paris, France, on May 29, 2016. (AFP/Francois Guillot)
November 14, 2018, 11:00 am
Tunisian Scouts movement bars French Jews from interfaith meeting
Organizers’ decision to ban the Jewish delegates, who are not Israeli citizens, said to follow complaints from BDS organizations
By JTA
The French town of Bezons. (CC BY-SA 4.0 Didier Duforest/Wikipedia)
June 12, 2018, 4:05 pm
Municipality near Paris names street for Nakba
Town of Bezons previously declared Israel’s founding premier David Ben-Gurion a war criminal; Jewish community says move gives ‘false historical justification’ to anti-Semitism
By JTA
Illustrative: Boys study in a Jewish school in Sarcelles, France, on October 03, 2010. (Serge Attal/FLASH90)
June 2, 2018, 12:13 am
French public schools reminded to enforce kippah, headscarf ban
Education ministry circulates handbook encouraging teachers to discipline students violating 2004 law outlawing religious symbols
By JTA
Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)
February 2, 2018, 3:40 am
Paris Muslim accused of killing Jewish woman no longer charged with hate crime
Prosecution to appeal dismissal of aggravated element in the trial of Kobili Traore, who threw his neighbor Sarah Halimi to her death
By JTA
Livry-Gargan Town Hall in the suburbs of Paris. (Marianna/Wikipedia)
September 10, 2017, 4:46 pm
Jewish family beaten, robbed in ‘anti-Semitic’ home invasion near Paris
Assailants said to tell victims, ‘You are Jewish, you have money,’ before brutally attacking them, threatening to kill them
By ToI Staff and AFP
File: Jewish women of the Women of the Wall organization read from the Torah and pray at Robinson's Arch at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on March 12, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 16, 2017, 4:03 am
UK, French Jewish leaders split on Western Wall controversy
Board of Deputies of British Jews condemns Israel backtrack on mixed-gender plaza, but French counterpart refrains
By JTA
Sarah Halimi, 66, killed on April 4, 2017, in Paris in what is suspected to be a racially motivated attack by her neighbor. (Courtesy)
June 29, 2017, 8:36 am
Jewish community accuses France of covering up anti-Semitism in slaying
Head of CRIF umbrella organization asks why government has been silent over April killing of Sarah Halimi in Paris
By JTA
French presidential election candidate for the En Marche! movement Emmanuel Macron looks at some of the 2,500 photographs of young Jews deported from France during the WWII Nazi occupation, during a visit to the Shoah Memorial on April 30, 2017 in Paris. (AFP/Pool/Philippe Wojazer)
May 9, 2017, 2:04 pm
French Jews certainly wanted Macron over Le Pen, but friction may lie ahead
Chief rabbi endorsed him and community respects him, but new president has said he’d maintain unpopular policies on Israel and was vague on tackling Islamist terror
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Michel Thooris (Courtesy of the National Front/via JTA)
April 21, 2017, 4:22 pm
Jewish Le Pen supporter blames ‘weak’ government for Paris attack
Member of board of far-right National Front party says ‘failure to detain a flagged radical’ is ‘intolerable’
By JTA
French presidential election candidates, right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party Francois Fillon, En Marche! movement Emmanuel Macron, far-left coalition La France insoumise Jean-Luc Melenchon, far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen, and left-wing French Socialist (PS) party Benoit Hamon, pose before a debate organised by the French private TV channel TF1 on March 20, 2017 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris. (AFP/Pool/Eliot Blondet)
April 21, 2017, 2:53 pm
French Jewish leader: Our democracy is in ‘real danger’
CRIF head slams Jewish support for far-right and far-left candidates, says ‘the enemies of our enemies are not our friends’
By JTA
Protesters shout slogans as they demonstrate against Israel on the Place du Chatelet in Paris, on April 1, 2017. (AFP/Thomas Samson)
April 1, 2017, 6:44 pm
Hundreds protest against ‘Israeli occupier’ in Paris
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally in city center, deny anti-Semitism accusations, as supporters of Israel counter-protest nearby
By ToI Staff, JTA and AFP
Protesters clash with riot police in Sarcelles, a suburb north of Paris, on July 20, 2014, during a demonstration to denounce Israel's military campaign in Gaza and show their support for the Palestinian people. (AFP/Omar Bouyacoub)
March 31, 2017, 8:58 pm
French Jews brace for BDS demonstration in Paris
MP Meyer Habib asks interior minister to ban Saturday protest; CRIF officials warn Jewish citizens that demonstrators may target them
By ToI Staff and JTA
Artwork for the “Spirit of the Bauhaus” exhibit, at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris (Museum of Decorative Arts)
December 16, 2016, 8:31 pm
Paris museum calls Auschwitz a ‘Bauhaus architectural achievement’
Local Jewish leader protests insult to the memory of death camp victims, says early 20th-century art movement ‘has enough lovely projects’
By JTA
UNESCO logo
October 27, 2016, 4:36 pm
French Jews protest abstention on UNESCO’s Jerusalem resolution
Jewish lobby group organizes rally outside Paris foreign ministry in show of ‘profound disappointment’
By JTA
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