Lior Zaltzman As a cartoonist, I’ve often been scared to breach political topics in an overt way. My fear centers on the reactions I might get from family and friends, or from internet trolls — but never on any concern for my life. That reality has now changed. Can’t sleep tonight, thoughts with my French…
A move by France’s ruling Socialists to ban the far-right National Front from a peace march for Charlie Hebdo shooting victims may backfire, forcing undecided voters to choose between Marine Le Pen and her rivals amid fear of Islamist attacks. President Francois Hollande’s Socialists called this week for a show of national unity on Sunday…
Two brothers suspected of a bloody attack on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed when police stormed their hideout on Friday, while a second siege ended with the deaths of four hostages. The violent end to the simultaneous stand-offs followed a police operation of unprecedented scale as France tackled one of…
(Reuters) — Twelve years ago, one of the two brothers suspected of the shootings at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was a young man like many others in France, more interested in girls and smoking dope than defending the Prophet Mohammad. But between 2003, when Cherif Kouachi delivered pizzas and dreamed of being a rap star,…
(Reuters) — Heavily armed anti-terrorism police swooped on woodland villages northeast of Paris on Thursday in a manhunt for two brothers suspected of being the Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people at a French satirical weekly. About two dozen helmetted and masked officers carried out house-to-house searches in the village of Corcy, a few km…
Jewish institutions in the Paris region have upped their level of security to the maximum following the slaying of 12 people at the offices of a French satirical weekly. The increase in security occurred hours after Wednesday’s slaying of 12 people at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly and it comprises an addition of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a “global response” to the attack on a satirical magazine in Paris. Netanyahu issued his statement Thursday during a meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende in Israel. “These extremists are part of a global movement and this necessitates a global response,” Netanyahu said of the slaying of…
It is not easy to be at the receiving end of Charlie Hebdo’s especially biting, brutal form of satire. Jews should know. Since the massacre of the French magazine’s top editors and journalists January 7, much has been made of their eagerness to criticize and lampoon people of all faiths, from the pope to presidents…
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