Tag: France
France’s justice minister aims to change law after court ruling on Halimi murder
France’s Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti plans to introduce a bill to change French law after a court ruled that the 27-year-old man who killed Jewish woman Sarah Halimi in a 2017 anti-Semitic attack would...
Hundreds protest at French embassy in Tel Aviv over Halimi murder ruling
Hundreds of protesters rallied in front of the French embassy in Tel Aviv on Sunday in solidarity with the large-scale demonstration held in Paris to demand justice for Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old French Jew who was...
French magazine devotes cover story to ‘post-COVID’ Israel
Israel’s success in beating back the coronavirus pandemic continues to attract attention in international media outlets, and this weekend, the French magazine Le Parisien devoted a cover story to Israel as an example of life “after”...
Anti-Semitism is a form of delirium, especially in France
The latest shocking development in the scandal over a horrific anti-Semitic murder in France not only trains a harsh light on that country’s attitude to Jew-hatred. It also illuminates a deeply problematic and wider...
French Jews plan mass rally in Paris to demand justice for Sarah Halimi
The Jewish community in France is planning a mass rally in Paris on Sunday afternoon to demand justice for Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old French Jew who was murdered in her home by a Muslim...
France’s Insanity Defense Is Itself Insane
To paraphrase our insanity defense standard, a suspect who cannot distinguish between right and wrong in killing his Jewish neighbor is not guilty of committing a crime.
France’s version of our Supreme Court moved close...
Macron asks for change in law after French court won’t prosecute Halimi’s killer
France’s President Emmanuel Macron urged an immediate change to French law after a court ruled that a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 was not responsible for his actions because he was high on...
France returning Klimt art, sold under duress in 1938, to heirs of Jewish owner
France’s culture minister Roselyne Bachelot announced on Monday that the French government will return a painting by famed artist Gustav Klimt to the heirs of its Austrian Jewish owner, who was forced to sell...
Killed in helicopter crash in France, Olivier Dassault, 69, leaves personal legacy upon family...
On Sunday afternoon, March 7, my phone rang. The call came from a friend in Paris telling me about a fatal helicopter crash in which one of the victims was my dear friend, Olivier...
Security overpowers knife-wielding man outside Jewish school in Marseille
Security forces outside of a Jewish day school in Marseille in southern France stopped an armed, would-be assailant who showed up at the school on Friday before going into a nearby kosher market.
According to...