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Fast Forward Jewish Supporter Of Marine Le Pen Blames ‘Weak’ Government For Paris Attack
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish supporter of the far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen blamed the current government for the death of a police officer in a suspected terrorist attack in Paris. “The perpetrator was flagged for radicalization. He spoke of terrorism on social networks,” Michel Thooris, a police officer and member of the…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Leader: Our Country’s Democracy Is In ‘Real Danger’
(JTA) — There is a “real danger” that France’s democracy will be destroyed by its next president, the leader of the country’s federation of Jewish communities warned ahead of Sunday’s presidential election. “We are in a real danger of seeing the arrival to power of someone who will only use democracy to destroy it,” CRIF…
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Fast Forward Police Officer Killed, Two Wounded In Paris Shooting
A French policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in a shooting in central Paris on Thursday night before the gunman himself was killed by officers, police and the Interior Ministry said. The Islamic State group claimed the shooting via its Amaq news agency, naming the attacker as Abu Yousif the Belgian. President…
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Fast Forward French Jews Worry About Rising Communist Presidential Candidate
(JTA) — Even before the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged as a serious contender for the presidency in France, the elections were shaping up to be a fateful moment for the country’s 500,000 Jews. Many of them are deeply worried about the rise in the polls of Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front…
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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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Fast Forward 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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