Tag: France
France’s right wins big in first round of parliamentary vote
France’s far-right topped the country’s first round of legislative elections on Sunday for the first time, with the National Rally, the party of Marine Le Pen, winning about one-third of the vote.
Finishing second was...
Parents of Paris antisemitic gang-rape victim speak out
The parents of the 12-year-old girl, identified only as “A,” who was gang raped in a Paris suburb on June 15 recently spoke with French daily Le Parisien “to bear witness to the ordeal experienced by...
Macron denounces ‘scourge of antisemitism’ after Jewish girl raped
After three boys were indicted for the rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a Paris suburb, French President Emmanuel Macron again spoke out against hatred of Jews.
At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Macron...
Paris drops demand for Hezbollah withdrawal
France has dropped a demand for the withdrawal of Hezbollah north of Lebanon’s Litani River from its proposal to end the fighting on Israel’s northern border, the Al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.
The latest proposal, submitted by...
Jewish woman reports rape, assault to ‘avenge Palestine’
A 32-year-old Jewish woman in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers was allegedly the victim of a horrific antisemitic crime this week. She says she was raped, kidnapped and threatened with murder by a man...
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...