Tag: France
US, UK and France launch strikes on Syria over chemical weapons use
President Donald Trump announced Friday evening that he has ordered the launch of airstrikes, along with the United Kingdom and France, on Syria in order to target the “criminal” regime of President Bashar Assad...
Top European powers urge stronger Iran sanctions to strengthen nuclear deal
The United Kingdom, France and Germany are urging fellow European Union partners to back new sanctions on Iran in order to preserve the nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw...
Notes from the Paris Solidarity March Against Antisemitism
“Had the murder awakened a new conscience regarding Judeophobia in France?
But were we naive? The very same day of the march, the French Jewish Student’s office at the Paris Sorbonne University was sacked and...
French authorities arrest two suspects connected with Holocaust-survivor’s murder
French police discovered the charred body of a Holocaust survivor covered with stab wounds after a fire broke out in her Paris apartment on Friday. The local Jewish community fears the murder was motivated by anti-Semitism,...
French consulate employees arrested for smuggling weapons from Gaza to Judea, Samaria
A driver and security guard employed by the French Consulate in eastern Jerusalem were arrested by Israeli police last month for allegedly smuggling weapons from Hamas in the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria,...
Macron to Jews: France will fight anti-Semitism, but not recognize Jerusalem
French President Emmanuel Macron told an audience on Wednesday that he would fight anti-Semitism online and in the streets of France in order to protect the country’s Jews.
“There are hatreds that are rising again;...
No hate of Halimi? French won’t see anti-Semitism for what it is
Flush from his victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French elections last July, President Emmanuel Macron decided to address head on the horrific murder of a Jewish pensioner in Paris three...
8-year-old Jewish boy beaten in Paris suburb, French president condemns attack
For the second time in a month, a Jewish youth was assaulted in a Paris suburb.An 8-year-old boy wearing a yarmulke was beaten by two teenage boys on Tuesday in Sarcelles. French authorities have stated that...
In Search of Justice in France
In one of his, essays Henry James remarked that "ife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong ... goodness very apt to be weak." Recognizing that this is not illusion, it is heartening that...
French kosher shop burns down on attack anniversary
Prosecutors said the store in the southern Paris suburb of Creteil caught fire in the early hours, days after it was vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti.
"The damage is believed to be very severe," Creteil prosecutor Laure Beccuau told AFP.
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