Tag: Macron
French president and prime minister to visit Israel this year
JERUSALEM—French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe are due to visit Israel later this year, announced French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian during a visit in Israel on Monday.
They will be followed...
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;...
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...
France finally admits to its history of Jew hatred. What about the present?
July 16 marked the 75th anniversary of the infamous 1942 mass roundup of French Jews in Paris’s Velodrome d’Hiver (“Vel d’Hiv”), when 13,152 Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. Benjamin Netanyahu’s motorcade arrival at...
Macron denounces anti-Zionism as ‘Reinvented form of anti-Semitism’
Standing at a site from which thousands of French Jews were sent to their deaths during the Holocaust, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Sunday deplored his nation’s wartime role in abetting murder and...
Netanyahu: Israel won’t tolerate Iranian bases in Lebanon, Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel opposes the US-Russian-brokered cease-fire in Syria because it perpetuates Iran’s military presence in the country. Diplomatic sources said that Iran wants to establish air, land...
Macron speaks out on murder of French Jewish woman
Emmanuel Macron, the French President, has called for “clarity” from the judiciary after anger from French Jews at the failure to acknowledge the murder of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman, as an antisemitic hate...
WJC President Lauder congratulates Macron on ‘tremendous victory’ as French leader
Lauder expressed confidence that the new French leader will continue to have close and positive ties with the French Jewish community and fight all forms of anti-Semitism, whether from the extreme left or the...