Tag: France
Letter: Jewish personalities ‘shooting the Israeli ambulance,’ scapegoating Netanyahu
French “personalities” should stop disgracing themselves “before the tribunal of history, as useful idiots of ‘Palestinian-ism’ and of information that has lost all credibility,” a group of some 35 French intellectuals, some of them...
Apple+ drama on fashion guru Coco Chanel glosses over Nazi collaboration
“The New Look,” a new TV program on the streaming service Apple+, explores World War II decisions made by founders of clothing lines that are worth billions today.
The show dramatizes the lives of Christian...
Netanyahu thanks France for ‘stalwart support’ against Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday thanked French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné for his country's "stalwart support" amid Israel's war against the Hamas terrorist organization.
Ahead of a meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu commended Séjourné...
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Hostages in Gaza yet to receive medicines from Qataris
France has sent badly needed medicines to Qatar for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the European nation's embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed to the Times of Israel on Tuesday.
President Emmanuel Macron ordered the foreign...
Father of France’s newly appointed prime minister, Gabriel Attal, was Jewish
Gabriel Attal, 34, the new prime minister of France appointed by President Emmanuel Macron, has attracted attention for his age (he is the youngest in the role to date) and his sexual orientation (he...
FM Cohen hosts French counterpart in Tel Aviv
Paris can play a "positive and significant role" in preventing all-out war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told his French counterpart Catherine Colonna in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
Colonna emphasized during...
US still wants Israel-Saudi normalization, top envoy says
Washington still hopes Israel and Saudi Arabia will normalize relations, despite the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, a top Biden administration official said on Thursday.
"I think that not every road is a straight...
180,000 rally against antisemitism across France, Macron a no-show
Thousands marched in Paris on Sunday, including prominent lawmakers, to condemn a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in France since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, prompted...
Antisemitism still haunts the European left
France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin last week ordered the dissolution of a Catholic traditionalist association named “Civitas” following claims of antisemitism against one of its leaders. The individual in question was the essayist Pierre...