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News The French Website That’s Driving Jews Into Marine Le Pen’s Arms
Like a Jewish Breitbart, the website Europe Israel has taken over the online conversation in Europe’s largest Jewish community. Now, as a crucial election approaches, its longtime bombardment of French Jews with biased, slanted news articles and controversial coverage of real, and sometimes fake, anti-Semitic attacks is having real consequences. Though the website never explicitly…
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News Le Pen Beckons French Jews — And Some Respond
Back in February, the right-wing Jewish website Dreuz reported on an unprecedented meeting: The Confederation Of French Jews And Friends Of Israel, it disclosed, had recently met with Louis Alliot, the vice president of France’s National Front party, a far-right group long associated with Holocaust denial and historical sympathies for France’s wartime collaborationist regime with…
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Breaking News Marine Le Pen Says French Not Responsible For Deporting Jews
(JTA) — Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in the French presidential elections, said that her country is not responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps in 1942. Le Pen, who according to recent polls is one of the two leading candidates ahead of the first round of the elections on…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Woman Thrown Off Her Paris Balcony In Possible Hate Crime
A 66-year old French Jewish woman was found dead on Tuesday morning after one of her neighbors threw her off her balcony, the daily newspaper Le Parisien reported. As details remain scarce, the Jewish Community Security Service, a body that tracks anti-Semitic incidents in France, wrote in a Facebook post that the Paris police had…
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Breaking News ‘Accident’ At French Cemetery Sparks Conspiracy Theories
(JTA) — Five days after a municipal truck plowed through a Jewish cemetery near Paris in what authorities said was a freak accident, Isabelle Zenou arrived at the scene of the incident with a camera — and a theory. The March 20 devastation of 13 gravestones in the suburb of Pantin was not an anti-Semitic…
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Fast Forward Vandals Smash 40 Headstones In Historic French Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) – A Jewish cemetery in France saw 80 percent of its tombstones smashed by unidentified perpetrators. A passerby noticed the devastation earlier this week at the disused, 18th-century Jewish cemetery of Waldwisse, a village situated 215 miles east of Paris, the France3 television channel reported yesterday. The attack – the second one since 2014…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Groups Plan Paris Rally Against ‘Apartheid State’
(JTA) — Anti-Israel activists in France are planning to demonstrate against the Jewish state, which they accuse of apartheid. The event is scheduled to take place Saturday on Chatelet Square, organizers from the Coordination of Appeals for a Just Peace in the Middle East, or CAPJPO, wrote on the group’s website. “No to blackmail by means…
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Breaking News Attacks On French Jews Drop By Half
(JTA) — French authorities recorded a 58 percent drop last year in anti-Semitic incidents in a report that identified only far-right perpetrators and questioned the existence of a new anti-Semitism by Muslims over Israel’s actions. The annual report by the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights published Thursday on its website counted 335 anti-Semitic incidents…
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