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From left to right: Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Sheikh Abu-Khalil Tamimi in the West Bank on June 13, 2019 (Courtesy Samaria Regional Council)
June 14, 2019, 3:30 pm
No to BDS: French Muslim leaders tour northern West Bank as guests of settlers
Cleric Hassen Chalghoumi, known for his close ties to French Jews, says anti-Israel boycott efforts run contrary to Quranic law
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A swastika is seen on a side wall of a former synagogue in Mommenheim, eastern France, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
June 11, 2019, 5:35 pm
France busts neo-Nazi cell over plot against Jewish, Muslim places of worship
Five members charged with terror offenses between September and May, legal source says, adding that plan was ill-defined
By AFP
Tabarek Kadhim, a student at Deering High School in Portland, Maine, wears a sports hijab while playing a tennis match in Windham, Maine in 2017. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
February 27, 2019, 7:55 pm
Decathlon cancels plans to sell sports hijab in France
In latest French controversy over face- and body-covering garments worn by Muslim women, retailer backs down hours after announcing it would market a runner’s hijab
By AFP
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the 34th annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF - Conseil Representatif des Institutions juives de France) on February 20, 2019, at the Louvre Carrousel in Paris. LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL / AFP)
February 21, 2019, 1:09 am
Anti-Semitism worst since WWII, Macron tells French Jewish group
President vows to ban racist groups and recognize anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism after spate of recent incidents targeting Jews
By Clare BYRNE
Alain Finkielkraut in his Paris home (Robert Sarner/Times of Israel)
August 24, 2018, 6:10 am
Controversial Jewish analyst Alain Finkielkraut is worried for France’s future
Leading French scholar says Jews in dire straits and government’s failure to integrate massive wave of Muslim immigration is to blame — a ‘diabolical juncture’
By Robert Sarner
A woman carries a poster reading "I am a Jew" as she attends a silent march to honor an 85-year-old woman who escaped the Nazis 76 years ago but was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment, apparently targeted because she was Jewish, and to denounce racism, in Paris, France, on March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
From the WebJuly 28, 2018, 7:42 am
‘They spit when I walked in the street’: The ‘new anti-Semitism’ in France
Though government no longer categorizes incidents by identity of culprits, Jewish researchers trace recent wave to country’s growing Muslim population, NY Times reports
Illustrative: Following a lethal shooting last year at a Jewish school in Toulouse, French mourners carry a banner that reads, "Jews, Christians, Muslims: Same God, Love." (Thibault Camus/AP)
July 5, 2018, 6:43 pm
French Muslim leaders all refuse to sign anti-Semitism condemnation — activist
Fiyaz Mughal, who led a similar, successful campaign in UK, says he floated draft for interfaith declaration against Jewish and Muslim hatred, was rebuffed even after revising text
By Marissa Newman
French soldiers patrol at the Eiffel Tower which remained closed on the first of three days of national mourning in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. (AP/Peter Dejong)
June 15, 2018, 6:55 am
​French police thwart terror attack on sex club
Separately, 2 men charged on suspicion of planning attack in the name of Islamic State which may have targeted gay people
By Agencies
a French-Algerian rapper performs Médine a concert in Sevran, near Paris, on 6 October 2013. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons/MonsieurNas)
June 11, 2018, 8:06 pm
Muslim rapper at Bataclan is ‘sacrilege,’ says French right
Fans call politicians ‘buffoons’ for outrage over provocative artist booked to play Paris venue where jihadists massacred 90 concert-goers
By Laure FILLON and Fiachra GIBBONS
A French shop manager removes Israeli dates from a Ramadan products stall following complaints by a Muslim customer (Video screenshot)
June 4, 2018, 4:46 am
French shop manager pulls Israeli dates from Ramadan stall over Muslim’s protest
Video shows employee at supermarket chain acquiesce to customer’s demand to remove products which ‘are an insult to Muslims’
By TOI staff
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
Mennel Ibtissem performed “Hallelujah” on France’s version of “The Voice.” (Facebook via JTA)
February 9, 2018, 5:06 pm
French-Muslim singer quits TV show over conspiracy posts
After moving performance of Leonard Cohen song, Mennel Ibtissem was found to be peddling conspiracy theories about terror attacks
By JTA
Mennel Ibtissem performed “Hallelujah” on France’s version of “The Voice.” (Facebook via JTA)
February 8, 2018, 2:26 am
Adored by many, French-Muslim singer hits sour note with Facebook posts
A favorite on France’s ‘The Voice’ and seen as symbol for coexistence, Mennel Ibtissem found to be peddling conspiracy theories about terror attacks
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Muslims pray in the street for Friday prayer in the Paris suburb of Clichy la Garenne, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
November 11, 2017, 2:44 am
Tensions as Paris suburb tries to stop Muslim street prayers
Muslim leader accuses protesters of seeking to ‘divide the citizens’ of France; Clichy-la-Garenne mayor vows to return every Friday
By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and Nicolas Garriga
In this May 6, 2014 file photo, French chef Xavier Lebeau poses with a plate of Quenelles de Brochet (pike fish) with Green Haricot beans and Champignons de Paris (Paris mushrooms), at the Saint Pierre de Chaillot school in Paris, France. France has been grappling with how to reconcile religious beliefs with secular values when it comes to pork in school lunches, with one lawmaker’s solution: vegetarian meals. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
August 31, 2017, 3:57 am
French schools ordered to reinstate no-pork lunches for Jewish, Muslim students
Judge rules that lack of alternative ‘not in keeping with the spirit’ of international convention on children’s rights
By JTA
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