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Fast Forward French Family Attacked in Parking Spot Dispute
French police have arrested two men accused of assaulting members of a Jewish family in the family’s home in Nice in a dispute over a parking space. The men tried to break into the family’s apartment in the southern French city on Oct. 15 after the family had the men’s car towed away from a…
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Fast Forward Bibi and Hollande Recall Victims of Toulouse
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined with French President Francois Hollande on Thursday in remembering victims of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, with both pledging to fight anti-Semitism in France and around the globe. The ceremony for the seven people shot dead in March in the south of France, including three Jewish children and a rabbi,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu and Hollande To Tour Toulouse School
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Francois Hollande will together visit the Jewish school in Toulouse where three children and a rabbi were murdered. “I am very proud to go tomorrow with you to Toulouse to give our common position against anti-Semitism, against extremism directed at Jews and non-Jews,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Flyers Distributed in French Town
Authorities in the French town of Aix-les-Bains near Lyon reportedly have received numerous complaints about anti-Semitic flyers disseminated in letterboxes. The tracts refer to Jews as “the main people responsible for the decadence of the White People and the invasion of sub-races” and were signed by “The Church of Wotan,” a west Germanic god. A…
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Fast Forward Strauss-Kahn Plots Comeback After Sex Woes
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief whose French presidential ambitions were shattered by a sex scandal last year, is making a comeback in business and at conferences. The 63-year-old Strauss-Kahn was accused of trying to rape a New York hotel maid in May 2011. He protested his innocence and criminal charges against him were dropped,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Schoolboy Beaten at Paris Bus Stop
Two men hit and threatened a Jewish schoolboy at a Paris bus stop, according to the security unit of France’s Jewish community, SPCJ. The two men, both in their 40s, hit the 12-year-old boy with a belt on Oct. 22 and told him to remain silent, SPCJ wrote in a statement on Wednesday. The boy…
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Fast Forward French ‘Failed’ To Stop Toulouse Killer: Report
French security “failed” in assessing the danger posed by Mohammed Merah, the French Interior Ministry said in a report about the Jihadist killer of three Jewish children and a rabbi in Toulouse in March. The 17-page report, which was submitted on Oct. 23, confirmed that the French domestic intelligence agency DCRI had been monitoring Merah…
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Fast Forward French Users Flood Twitter With Anti-Semitic Tweets
Hundreds of French Twitter users wrote the phrase “a dead Jew” on Twitter after the company removed some anti-Semitic content. Twitter agreed to pull anti-Semitic materials offline on Oct. 19 after the Union of French Jewish Students threatened legal action. During that week, a hashtag meaning “a good Jew” became the third most popular among…
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