(AFP) More than 180,000 people turned out on Sunday to march against anti-Semitism in France, after a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. France has recorded nearly 1,250 anti-Semitic acts in recent weeks and […]
(JTA) Joining the stream of people converging on Trocadero Square, I soon realized that this event would be significantly different from the dozens of Jewish community gatherings I had attended in France. The atmosphere, rhetoric, symbolism and attendance at the “Justice for […]
(Radio France) France’s Muslim community is “horrified … profoundly shocked” by the killing of Samuel Paty, according to Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. He said the teacher’s brutal murder was an insult to the memory of […]
(JTA) French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia praised his government’s crackdown on radical Islamists, writing in an op-ed that it makes clear that “things are changing — belatedly, but all the same.” Korsia’s op-ed Wednesday in Le Figaro followed news that the French […]
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